Movement for gender equality is a fight for sustainable development of Nigeria — UN Women Rep, Comfort Lamptey
By Funmi Ajumobi The United Nations Women Representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Comfort Lamptey has said that the movement for gender equality is a fight for sustainable development of Nigeria and not just women’s movement. Speaking at the inaugural International Women’s Day (IWD) Awards Gala held in partnership with the British High Commission, the European […]
Gender Commission Welcomes Implementation of Teenage Pregnancy Policy
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has welcomed the announcement that the Teenage Pregnancy Policy will be implemented from January 2022. The policy, which was recently approved by Cabinet, will allow female learners who are pregnant to continue with their education, as do male learners who impregnate them. “Early, unplanned learner pregnancies subject girls to […]
Nothing to Celebrate Even As Gender Gap Narrows By Some Measures
The 10X Investments South African Retirement Reality Report 2021 (RRR21) shows that the gender gap in retirement preparedness has narrowed by at least one measure but, overall, there is nothing to celebrate, says Ishani Khoosal-Kala, 10X’s Head of Employee Benefits, Corporate Distribution. “The odd small change in the size of the gap reflects a deterioration […]
Why Gender Equality Depends on Mass Vaccination
It was 6 pm. Bathtime. Assetou, the neighbour’s cleaning lady, chased after my neighbours’ children trying to wrangle them into the house. As she struggled with her bosses’ kids, I thought about her own. Assetou has a three-year-old daughter. After leaving work, she would have to go home, make dinner, then feed and bathe her […]
Congo’s Women Stepped Up To Fight Ebola. Now they Want Equality
When Ebola hit her town three years ago, Congolese seamstress Zawadi Kavira did something previously unthinkable in her conservative community – she became a builder. Construction was traditionally seen as men’s work in Mangina in North Kivu province, where the Democratic Republic of Congo’s worst-ever Ebola epidemic began. But the rural community needed extra hands […]
Preach Gender Equality, Not Religious Bigotry, Emir of Keffi Urges Clerics
The Emir of Keffi, and Chancellor of Nasarawa State University, Dr. Shehu Chindo Yamusa, has called on all religious leaders in the country to preach sustainable gender equality and not to further polarise the nation through divisive teachings. Also, he called on women in active journalism to ensure enough and proper marketisation of women participation […]
‘Safe Spaces’ Helping Women and Girls In West Darfur Tackle Trauma of Violence and Displacement
About 1,500 women and girls access five UN Population Fund (UNFPA) temporary safe spaces in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur, each month, to tackle the trauma of violence and displacement, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says in its latest Sudan Situation Report. Sawakin, 35, fled armed clashes that erupted […]
Gender Equality Makes Democracy Stronger, Says Kamala Harris
Women deprived of freedom of speech or the freedom to vote should fight for their rights and know that the United States stands beside them, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Wednesday. Harris told the Generation Equality Forum at a summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron that gender equality was paramount to strengthening […]
Kagame Shares Rwanda’s Journey Towards Gender Equality
Achieving gender equality in technology and innovation is just one part of the wider struggle to guarantee equal rights and opportunities for women and girls, President Paul Kagame has said. Kagame was speaking at the virtual Generation Equality Forum, global feminist gathering convening governments, international organizations, civil society, the private sector and young people seeking […]
African Union Strategy for Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment
The African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa and the Constitutive Act of the African Union underscore the principle of promoting gender equality on the continent as a prerequisite for achieving inclusive and sustainable development on the continent. Specifically the Constitutive Act of the African Union and the […]
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