Indeed, let us keep pressing for progress as the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day demands. However, let us do so with the clarity and tenacity that will finally end all forms of discrimination against women and girls and sustainably instigate gender equality across all spheres.
Dinah Musindarwezo
Tagged under Gender & Minorities International Women's Day
Only a few days after celebration of the Day of the Africa Child, the President of the Republic of Tanzania, Magufuli John victimises teen mothers by swearing that during his presidency no teen mothers or young mothers will be allowed to go back to school.
Tagged under Gender & Minorities Magufuli’s ban on teen mothers, FEMNET, Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Day of the Africa Child, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Convention on Ending Discrimination Against Women, African Protocol on the Rights of the Child, Protocol of the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa
The results of the 2012 African Union’s Chairperson’s elections marked a significant victory for gender parity representation at AU, ushering in a first woman Chairperson H.E Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.