Need to Adopt Human Rights-Focused Framework The African Union Commission and its specialized agency on girls and women’s education is currently hosting a conference in Addis Ababa with government ministers, education experts, and civil society representatives to accelerate progress on girls’ and women’s education. Fifty-one million girls are out of school across Africa. Globally, nine […]
The President of Sierra Leone announced on July 2, 2024, the promulgation of a law prohibiting child marriage. This law provides for 15 years in prison and a fine of at least 50 thousand Leone (about 3500 Canadian dollars for any perpetrator of child marriage. By criminalizing the marriage of anyone under the age of […]
On Friday June 28th, 2024 , at the UN Human Rights Council’s (OHCHR) first panel for the annual full-day discussion on women’s rights, The UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday told a Human Rights Council panel that it’s time to eliminate laws and practices that contribute to “economic violence” against women and girls. […]
Council Concludes Interactive Dialogue with Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls The Human Rights Council this morning held the first panel of its annual full-day discussion on the human rights of women, focusing on economic violence as a form of gender-based violence against women and girls. It also concluded its interactive dialogue with […]
Despite Guinea’s immense mining potential, where mining activities represent 85% of exports, a large part of the population still lives below the poverty line, with women being the most impacted. It is based on this unfortunate observation that Women In Mining Guinea (WIM Guinea), a non-governmental organization dedicated to the empowerment of women in extractive […]
Initialed by the Minister of Solidarity, Social Inclusion and Family, Aawatif Hayar, and the Gambian Minister of Women’s Affairs, Children and Social Welfare, Fatou Sanyang Kinteh, this agreement aims to promote training in the field of social action. Speaking on this occasion, Ms. Hayar indicated that Morocco has taken important steps in terms of social […]
In a press release received on Monday by Walfnet, UN Women announced the signing of a partnership for the promotion of the digital inclusion of girls and the economic empowerment of women in Senegal with the mobile telephone operator Free. “UN Women and Free Senegal have signed a partnership to finance two coding camps per […]
Girls endured abduction, sexual slavery and other crimes by Boko Haram Escape was often followed by further violations in military detention Girls continue to be neglected by authorities who must provide specialist reintegration support Girls and young women who escaped Boko Haram captivity in north-east Nigeria faced further suffering, including sometimes in unlawful military detention, […]
Palestine, Other Major Conflicts Drive Much of the Increase (New York) – About 6,000 attacks on education took place in 2022 and 2023, a nearly 20 percent increase compared with the previous two years, the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) said today in its new report, Education under Attack 2024. Over 10,000 students, […]
Focus on Free Quality Education; Expedite Positive Measures for Girls (Abuja) – African governments should accelerate plans to guarantee free quality education from preschool through secondary education before 2030, Human Rights Watch said today on the African Union (AU)’s Day of the African Child, June 16, 2024. Africa is the region with the world’s highest out-of-school […]
