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Lacuna this week: Human rights and the lives of women, Election TV Debates and Deep wounds in Mexico

Lacuna this week continues its focus on women’s rights and gender equality with a diverse range of pieces that explore womens' lives and experience.

Chitra Nagarajan looks at the experiences of women living in Borno State, in the north-east of the country where a year ago today Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 female students from Chibok. Naana Otoo-Oyortey argues that prevention is the key to tackling FGM in Britain. Angela O'Hagan looks at the feminist movement in post-referendum Scotland.

Elsewhere in Lacuna, James Harrison reflects on the why the British TV Election Debates are so unsatisfactory, and Alison Struthers asks if human rights education can heal Mexico's deep wounds.

You can find it all here at www.lacuna.org.uk

Fri 17 Apr 2015, 18:05