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Women MPs get flak for wrongs on Wright

A senior lecturer at The University of the West Indies has criticised women parliamentarians for their response to the epidemic of gender-based violence in Jamaica and wants the society to build pressure on them to represent the interests of women...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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