Gifti Abasiya is the State Minister for Women’s Affairs – one of the smallest ministries in Ethiopia. In this interview with IRIN, she says that discrimination is a result of undemocratic systems, and that widespread and deeply entrenched poverty is the key factor in fuelling arcane attitudes towards women.
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