Mozambique’s Josina Z. Machel on BBC’s ‘100 Most Influential Women’ of 2020

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Mozambique’s Josina Z. Machel on BBC’s ‘100 Most Influential Women’ of 2020

4:10 CAT | 27 Nov 2020

Josina Z. Machel is one of the 100 most influential women in the world, on a BBC list “highlighting those who are leading change and making a difference during these turbulent times”, it was disclosed on Thursday.

At the age of 44, Josina Machel was selected by the BBC as “a long-standing defender of human rights, born into a legacy of activism”, and “fiercely passionate in her life’s calling to advance women’s rights”.

“As a survivor of domestic violence, she is turning her personal trauma to purpose through the Kuhluka Movement,” an organisation which “helps to accelerate social change with regard to gender-based violence, and to create safe havens for survivors of violence in communities across southern Africa”, the BBC adds.

Josina Z Machel holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

This year’s ‘100 Women’ list includes Sanna Marin, who leads Finland’s all-female coalition government; Michelle Yeoh, star of the new Avatar and Marvel films; Sarah Gilbert, who heads the Oxford University research into a coronavirus vaccine; and Jane Fonda, the climate activist and actress.

And in an extraordinary year, one name on the 100 Women list has been left blank as a tribute to the countless women around the world who have made sacrifices to help others.