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AU priorities on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Agenda 2063

Africa has noted that despite positive achievements registered recently in decision-making, women, as the largest proportion of our population; remain vulnerable, at-risk and impoverished due to the challenges caused by...
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FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION Long-term complications • urinary problems (painful urination, urinary tract infections); • vaginal problems (discharge, itching, bacterial vaginosis and other infections • menstrual problems (painful menstruations, difficulty in...
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History: ‘Unruly’ African women who made their mark on the continent

From the 1930s onwards, several African women who were ahead of their time made their mark in a fiercely male-dominated society. In her remarkable essay, Géraldine Faladé Touadé revives the...
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Female Genital Mutilation

Female Genital Mutilation Immediate complications • severe pain • excessive bleeding (haemorrhage) • genital tissue swelling • fever • infections e.g., tetanus • urinary problems • wound healing problems •...
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AU priorities on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Agenda 2063

Africa has noted that despite positive achievements registered recently in decision-making, women, as the largest proportion of our population; remain vulnerable, at-risk and impoverished due to the challenges caused by...
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Together: Resisting, supporting, healing!

For many people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions, and sex characteristics, acts of resistance, support, and healing are a way of life. A dream held fast, a...
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Female Genital Mutilation

Female Genital Mutilation Key facts • Female genital mutilation (FGM) involves the partial or total removal of external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical...
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Claiming women’s space in leadership

Shirley Chisholm, the first Black US Congresswoman once said: “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair”. The future is better with women at...
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To unlock African women’s potential, we must end gendered patterns of labour

• COVID-19 exposed persistent inequalities for women in the African workforce. • These inequalities are underpinned by a gendered division of labour that is hard to shift. • Investing in...
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