Women's Rights
President Jammeh has demonstrated positive action for women's rights:
- President Jammeh’s cabinet includes a Secretary of State for Women's Affairs, a top post which is currently held by Isatou Njie-Saidy.
- According to a 2012 Associated Press article, "Yahya Jammeh...has made progress on issues such as women's rights. "
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Famous quotes containing the words women and/or rights:
“The steps toward the emancipation of women are first intellectual, then industrial, lastly legal and political. Great strides in the first two of these stages already have been made of millions of women who do not yet perceive that it is surely carrying them towards the last.”
—Ellen Battelle Dietrick, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“In the course of the actual attainment of selfish ends—an attainment conditioned in this way by universality—there is formed a system of complete interdependence, wherein the livelihood, happiness, and legal status of one man is interwoven with the livelihood, happiness, and rights of all. On this system, individual happiness, etc. depend, and only in this connected system are they actualized and secured.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)