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When you think of a library, what comes to mind? Row after row of books? The Dewey Decimal System? Kids but no adults? Those stereotypes are outdated. Around the world, libraries are on the front lines of innovative development.

When the Thomson Reuters Foundation recently released the results of its poll on “The world’s five most dangerous countries for women”, Somalia, one of IREX’s program countries, was ranked fifth. We asked WAWA (the We Are Women Activists Network), one of our local partners on the Uniting Communities to Mitigate Conflict (UCMC) project, for their initial reactions to the report.