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#WomenLead (Issue 90): Your weekly round-up on women in politics

Hello, and welcome to Issue 90!

“Violence against women in politics is…a moral and ethical failure,” Abdulla Shahid, President of UN’s General Assembly, observed during the ongoing session of the Commission on the Status of Women. Emphasizing how such violence hinders women’s political participation, which in turn undermines democratic processes at large…