Cameroon: Giving Women Land, Giving Them a Future
Although women produce 80 percent of Cameroon's food needs, they own just two percent of the land, according to a 2011 statistics from the Cameroon Gender Equality Network.
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Cameroon:
Giving Women Land, Giving Them a Future
IPS, 16 October 2012
Clarisse Kimbi barely ekes out a living from a tiny parcel of land in Kom village in the North West Region of Cameroon. Today, the mother of six finds it hard to put food on the… Read more »
Cameroonian women, clad in dresses with the image of President Paul Biya,
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Cameroon:
Women Literacy in Focus
Cameroon Tribune, 25 September 2012
Adult illiteracy continues to be a major problem in many countries in the world. Statistics from the 2010 World Report on Education for All reveal that 880 million adults in the… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Women's Day Fabric Design Under Examination
Cameroon Tribune, 26 September 2012
Members of the committee to select the best design for the 2013 International Women's Day fabric in Cameroon began meeting yesterday, September 26 at the Ministry of Women's… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Cameroon's Women's Rights Progress Lauded
Cameroon Tribune, 13 September 2012
Senior officials of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights have appreciated progress made by the Cameroon government in the promotion of the rights of women as well as… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Rapid Results Initiative for Women Promotion Centres Launched
Cameroon Tribune, 3 September 2012
The anti-corruption project, Rapid Results Initiative (RRI), which went underway in the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and the Family in July 2011, was launched in the… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Women Embrace Project Management Skills
Cameroon Tribune, 29 August 2012
A one-week workshop has been organised in Douala to train female entrepreneurs from seven regions of the Country. The women who came from the Southwest, Northwest, Littoral,… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Nation Enlists Women in Reforestation Effort
AlertNet, 23 August 2012
While Cameroon's green forest canopies appear to stretch out endlessly over the horizon, they are in fact getting smaller every year. Read more »