JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Apr 06 (IPS) – Girls in Asia don’t want to go back to normal – they want to go “back to better than normal”, says Zara Rapoport, a delegate during an online seminar on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender.
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