Honoring International Women's Day

Avi Benlolo, president and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies has penned a very moving piece drawing attention this International Women's Day to the lack of equal rights and opportunities for women throughout the Middle East and Africa.

I'm late to this intensely moving piece by Avi Benlolo, president and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies.

Will women living in apartheid-like conditions throughout the Middle East and Africa know that today is International Women's Day - the day the world is supposed to celebrate equal rights and opportunities for all women? The chances are very slim in countries like Morocco, where every second woman is illiterate. Saudi women, on the other hand, will need a note of permission from a man or a chaperone to attend a public celebration in their honour.

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