By Fatou Dem Fatou Kinteh, minister for Gender, Children and Social Welfare has said that her ministry is currently revising the Gender and Women Empowerment Policy 2023-2033 as well as the National Children´s Policy. The revision would cover thematic areas on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence including Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage. Minister Kinteh made […]
By Adama Tine As Human rights impact assessments, help identity, analyze, and monitor the impact of trade agreements on the environment and on the ability of people to enjoy human rights, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recommends that the role of women in trade within the continent and their impact […]
After more than a decade of teaching audio production to my college students in Cairo, it finally dawned on me that podcasts themselves can serve as teaching tools that highlight lessons in Egyptian society. I realised this because so many of my female students selected feminist topics or took feminist standpoints in their narrative nonfiction […]
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 2022 (IPS) – For decades, urban practitioners have failed to consider the needs of women in city decision-making and planning. Imagine being a young girl in a bustling metropolis. Every day she hesitates to go to school, tries different routes on the public bus, walks miles in the hot sun, to […]
Women and girls are bearing the brunt of the worst drought experienced in Kenya for 40 years, which is exacerbating the risk of sexual exploitation, violence, and abuse. “We have to walk for more than seven kilometres to find water, and sometimes what we find isn’t safe to drink,” says 39 Elimlim Ingolan, mother of […]
Cities have an in-built bias against women, who overwhelmingly describe them as unsafe and unwelcoming. A UN report released on Monday October 24th, 2022 calls for a complete overhaul of city design, and for women to be more closely involved in urban planning. Even though they make up half the population, women and girls get […]
Protecting women’s rights and promoting greater inclusion is a proven strategy for peace and stability, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told the Security Council on Thursday 20th october 2022. Ambassadors met to discuss how to strengthen women’s resilience and leadership as a pathway to peace in regions plagued by armed groups. The debate was held […]
Her Excellency Samia Suluhu Hassan, the president of United Republic of Tanzania Dear invitees and colleagues from WiLDAF Tanzania, It is a big pleasure and an honor for me to take the floor as WiLDAF West Africa Coordinator and interim of WiLDAF General Secretariat First of all, I would like pesonnaly and on behalf of […]
The African Development Bank Group’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative is launching its second call for proposals for the Women Entrepreneurship Enablers program, targeting women’s business associations, incubators, accelerators, women-led cooperatives, and civil society organizations that promote the development of women entrepreneurs on the continent. AFAWA is offering grants of up […]
A new UN report shows that women’s and children’s health has suffered globally, as the impacts of conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change converge, with devastating effects on prospects for children, young people and women. Data presented in the report show a clear and critical regression across virtually every major measure of childhood wellbeing, […]
