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The horrific rape of a young female student in New Delhi last December, which sparked mass protests, left myself and work colleagues feeling stunned. Presumably this educated woman, by travelling on a bus, was being too confident? We felt physically sick. And it came so soon after the shooting of 14 year old Pakistani girl [...]

Recently I was at a seminar organised by the Literacy Working Group, based on the four calls for action outlined in Women’s Right to Literacy: Advocating women’s right to access learning literacy through international development. Five presenters demonstrated how literacy, the bedrock of learning, is not simply about acquiring a set of prescribed skills.  Literacy, [...]