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AWID Resource Net Announcements: Wednesday 21 August 2013

Pakistan's Musharraf charged with Benazir Bhutto's murder

Once Pakistan's most powerful man, Pervez Musharraf has been indicted for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's murder.

Not quite spring, but not nothing

Yesterday, Monday, August 19, 2013, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, who was the first woman to serve as Deputy President of South Africa (2005-2009), took the oath of office as Executive Director of UN Women. Then Over the weekend, Joyce Banda, first woman President of Malawi, was sworn in as Chairperson of the Southern African Development Community, or SADC (at the same time that H.E Robert Gabriel Mugabe was sworn in as Deputy Chair).

Germany becomes first European country to recognise โ€˜undeterminedโ€™ sex

Germany will become the first country in Europe to join a small group of nations which recognise a third or โ€œundeterminedโ€ sex when registering births, according to a report in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

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