Marie Clarke Brill, director of public education and mobilization with Africa Action, says many African women don’t have even basic human rights.
Marie Brill at the National Press Club describes an event where 27 women were jailed because they couldn’t pay their maternity fees, while in prison they were raped. She continues to say the impacts of these policies are not the bottom line in some ministries draw, they affect real people.(:42)
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