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  • Unity Dow, Botswana lawyer and human rights activist, was appointed as the first woman judge on the High Court in 1998. She established a women's rights center in her home village, was a cofounder of the Botswana women's rights organization Emang Basadi! (Stand Up, Women!) and of the Women and Law in Southern African research project (WLSA). [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Dow, Unity (1959–)]

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