Priority must be given to investments in women and youth in all facets of the AfCFTA implementation arrangements The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has huge potential to harness the power of women and youth to realize its true potential. The African Union’s (AU) timely efforts to accelerate the implementation of the AfCFTA is a […]
Violence against African women and the widespread violation of their basic human rights is shaped by societal and cultural barriers. In Nigeria, women’s rights appear to be protected. The country is a signatory to many international conventions and norms such as the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women and the […]
Maternal health setbacks in many parts of the world have contributed to the worrying finding that a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth around every two minutes, UN agencies said on Thursday 23rd February 2023. According to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO), maternal deaths have either increased or stagnated nearly everywhere, […]
Independent UN experts on Tuesday welcomed Spain’s adoption of new comprehensive anti-discrimination and feminist legislation. Describing the new laws as a “fundamental feminist achievement”, they said the move was part of an ambitious agenda for social progress. The legislation guarantees and facilitates access to sexual and reproductive rights in the country. New menstrual leave, abortion laws The […]
Social progress must move into the spotlight, flanked by policies that can drive meaningful change for millions of currently struggling people, the UN deputy chief said, marking the World Day of Social Justice on Monday 21st Fébruary 2023. “We must develop fairer, more balanced policies that generate the political buy-in to drive change,” Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said in […]
A staggering 78 million girls and boys around the world today “don’t go to school at all” because of conflict, climate disasters and displacement – while tens of millions more receive only sporadic teaching – UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday 16th february 2023. Lending his support to a call for more funding for education […]
Women leaders called for swift, concerted action to advance gender rights at the first International Conference on Women’s Transformational Leadership, in Juba, South Sudan on Tuesday February 14th, 2023. Almost 400 women leaders from 15 African countries joined the UN-backed three-day conference, which opened on Monday February 13th, 2023, including former and current presidents. The goal […]
Gender bias in science has resulted in drug tests that treat the female body as an aberration, and search algorithms that perpetuate discrimination, but the solution is simple: increase the numbers of women working in the field and support the girls hoping to join them one day. That’s the message from UN Secretary-General António Guterres for the International Day of […]
Calling for a swift crackdown on infant formula corporations’ exploitative marketing tactics, a leading World Health Organization (WHO) scientist said, in a paper published on Wednesday bebruary 8th, 2023, that nursing mothers need urgent support. “This new research highlights the vast economic and political power of the big formula milk companies, as well as serious public policy failures that […]
Female Genital Mutilation, or FGM, is an “abhorrent violation of fundamental human rights” said the UN Secretary-General on Monday February 7th, 2023, marking the International Day of Zero Tolerance against the scourge, which remains a threat for a staggering 4.2 million girls this year. ntónio Guterres said that the practice of genital cutting, prevalent in […]
