Everjoice Win
{{Short description|Zimbabwean feminist activist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
Everjoice Win (12 February 1965 - 9 March 2025) was a Zimbabwean feminist activist,{{cite web|url=https://mg.co.za/article/2007-04-25-at-the-centre-of-future|title=At the centre of the future|first=Everjoice|last=Win|website=mg.co.za|access-date=8 November 2017}}{{Cite web |last=Mugugunyeki |first=Moses |title=Condolences messages pour in for women rights activist Everjoice Win |url=https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200039350/condolences-messages-pour-in-for-women-rights-activist-everjoice-win |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=NewsDay |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Renowned feminist Everjoice Win dies – DailyNews |url=https://dailynews.co.zw/renowned-feminist-everjoice-win-dies/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=dailynews.co.zw}} and the international programmes director of ActionAid International.
Early life
Everjoice Win was born on 12 February 1965 in Shurugwi, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).{{cite book|author1=Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.|author2=Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong|author3=Mr. Steven J. Niven|title=Dictionary of African Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39JMAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA5-PA175|access-date=8 November 2017|date=2 February 2012|publisher=OUP USA|isbn=978-0-19-538207-5|page=175}}{{cite web|url=http://whoswho.co.za/everjoice-win-5921|title=Everjoice Win - Who's Who SA|website=whoswho.co.za|access-date=8 November 2017|archive-date=13 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113234625/http://whoswho.co.za/everjoice-win-5921|url-status=dead}}{{cite journal|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195382075.001.0001/acref-9780195382075-e-2135|title=Win, Everjoice - Oxford Reference|website=oxfordreference.com|access-date=8 November 2017|doi=10.1093/acref/9780195382075.001.0001/acref-9780195382075-e-2135}} In 1988, she earned a bachelor's degree in economic history from the University of Zimbabwe.
Career
From 1989 to 1993, Win worked for Women's Action Group.{{cite web|url=http://www.theconmag.co.za/author/everjoice/|title=Everjoice Win|website=The Con|access-date=8 November 2017}}
In 1992, together with Terri Barnes, Win published To Live a Better Life: An Oral History of Women in the City of Harare, 1930-70.
From 1993 to 1997, Win was programme director for the Zimbabwe chapter of Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF). In 1997, she was one of the founding members of the National Constitutional Assembly of Zimbabwe.
From 2002 to 2003, Win was the spokesperson for the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition.
From 2004 to 2007, Win was a board member of the Association of Women's Rights in Development (AWID), in Toronto, Canada.
Win was the international head/ international director of programmes and global engagement for ActionAid International since 2002.{{cite web|url=https://www.irinnews.org/authors/everjoice-win|title=Everjoice Win|website=irinnews.org|access-date=8 November 2017}} She was the International Programmes Director at ActionAid.{{Cite web|url=https://www.actionaid.org.uk/users/everjoice-win|title=Everjoice Win|website=ActionAid UK|language=en|access-date=2018-03-22}}
Personal life
Win was based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Publications
- To Live a Better Life: An Oral History of Women in the City of Harare, 1930-70 (Baobab Books, 1992)
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