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"The language of law is very masculine. The culture of law is so masculine. At one point, I started to think that it shouldnt be like this and that I have a right to be where I am."
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Unity DowBotswana is emerging from a national shutdown. — Unity Dow
"Botswana is emerging from a national shutdown."
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Unity Dow is a Motswana lawyer, author, human rights activist and Member of Parliament for Kgatleng West since November 2024. She formerly served as a judge on the High Court of Botswana and in various Botswana government ministries. Born in the Bechuanaland Protectorate to a seamstress and a farmer, who insisted on their children obtaining an education, Dow grew up in a traditional rural village
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"ultimately about a people demanding dignity and respect."
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"I was born into a Botswana where there was no tarmac road, no telephone, where you had to hold water on your head and firewood as well. I think I saw my first refrigerator when I was a teenager."
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"It wasn’t that simple. But in the end, I won. It not only changed the law on citizenship, so that men and women were equal in citizenship, it actually influenced other laws."
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"On a personal level, that was hard. It wasnt just my case, my issue, but the focus was on me personally. At the time I was young and thought everything was possible but there was a real cost both financially and emotionally. I always say at the start I was driving a BMW and by the end of the case I was in a pick-up truck. I had to take my kids out of private school and put them in public school."
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"Reforming the African Union, will open great opportunities in areas of trade, employment and economic growth in Africa."
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