Africa’s economic recovery can be meaningfully accelerated if policymakers and the private sector step up their efforts to empower women – a group that accounts for more than half of […]
Category: Women
Ending sexual harassment against women and girls with disabilities
Joint statement by UN Women, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Date: Thursday, October 22, 2020 Women […]
Ending sexual harassment against women and girls with disabilities
Women and girls with disabilities rightly demand enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms. We recognise and acknowledge that work remains to be done to ensure that the links […]
WOMEC, Kpone Health directorate sensitizes community on Covid-19
Residents of MTN-Sentuo, a slum in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality near the Kpone landfill site have been sentiaized to adhere to the COVID-19 protocols and not to stigmatize infected persons. . […]
Communities urged to adopt handwashing practices beyond protection against COVID-19
Members of the MTN/Sentuo community in the Kpone-Katamanso municipality in the Greater Accra region, have been advised to adopt the healthy practice of frequent handwashing as a lifestyle to ensure […]
Op-ed: Where is the economic stimulus for women?
The pandemic has been especially crushing for women and, if no action is taken soon, the progress made over the past twenty-five years towards gender equality will be lost. This […]
Governments Need To Halt The Disproportionate Impact Of COVID-19 On Rural Women–IFAD President On International Day Of Rural Women
Rome, 15 October 2020 – Our food supply is at risk if we don’t start prioritizing rural women during this pandemic, said Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of the UN’s International […]
The National Movement Of Rural Women Celebrates International Day Of Rural Women On 15 October 2020
The National Movement of Rural Women invites members of the press to celebrate International Day of Rural Women (IDoRW) on the 15th of October 2020. Observed since 2008, IDoRW – established by the United […]
Violence against women: Africa’s shadow pandemic
The number of cases of sexualized violence and femicide in Africa has risen during the Covid-19 pandemic. Will those in power finally grow aware of the extent of the problem? […]
COVID-19: Only one in eight countries worldwide have measures in place to protect women against social and economic impacts, new data shows
Most of the world’s nations are not doing enough to protect women and girls from the economic and social fallout being caused by the COVID-19 crisis, according to new data […]
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