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Fatuma Ndangiza Quotes

born 1968

Fatuma Ndangiza (born 1968) is a women's rights advocate, policy expert, and politician. As of January 2024, she is serving her second term as a Rwandan member of the East African Legislative Assembly.

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It’s important to treat men as allies rather than seeing them as people who are responsible for our situation.

It requires a political will and leadership that favors women’s participation in decision making, and women organizing to advocate for their rights.

It highlights the importance of self-reliance, unity, and shared responsibility in addressing national and global challenges.

Gender imbalances are societal challenges. They're the result of attitudes that might target women but these are not problems made by men.

The equality that we want is equality in terms of opportunities… not equality for us to be like men.

We have to be very careful. We have to understand the context. We have to also take into consideration the concerns and the fears of men.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Fatuma Ndangiza (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.