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Friday May 18th 2012

Women in Malawi protest attacks over skirts, pants

Women in Malawi protest attacks over skirts, pants

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It’s been 18 years since the late dictator Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s “indecency in dress” laws were repealed in Malawi, but mobs of men and boys in the largely conservative southern African country have recently been publicly stripping women of their miniskirts and pants.

Friday, hundreds of outraged girls and women, among them prominent politicians, protested the attacks while wearing pants or miniskirts and T-shirts emblazoned with such slogans as: “Real men don’t harass women.” A recording of Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” got a loud cheer when it was played during the protest. Men also took part.

“Some of us have spent our entire life fighting for the freedom of women,”

Read More at : http://townhall.com/news/world/2012/01/20/women_in_malawi_protest_attacks_over_skirts_pants

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