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Africa: Women's Rights 'Underrated, Ignored, Trampled Upon'
Fahamu, 11 June 2015
Africa's first women's rights legal framework has the potential to benefit millions of women when governments not only ratify but also ensure its domestication in national laws,… Read more »
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Africa: Women At Centre of African Union Summit
SA Info, 12 June 2015
The African Union (AU) has stressed the importance of mainstreaming women in all development activities as Africa seeks to attain integration, prosperity and peace under its Agenda… Read more »
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Africa: Angelina Jolie Speaks Out at AU Against Sexual Crimes
News24Wire, 12 June 2015
Hollywood actress and UN envoy on refugee issues, Angelina Jolie-Pitt spoke at a panel discussion ahead of this weekends AU Summit held at the Sandton Convention Centre in… Read more »
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Africa: Looking Beyond the Rhetoric of an African Union Year for Women
Africa Renewal, 13 June 2015
At this year's annual summit of the African Union, attending leaders declared 2015 the Year of Women's Empowerment in acknowledgement of the increasing role women are playing in… Read more »
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Kenya: Kenyatta's Mother Feted Among Africa's Top 15 Heroines
Capital FM, 13 June 2015
Mama Ngina Kenyatta was among 15 women who were on Friday night identified as the foremost heroines of Africa. Read more »
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Africa: Women Empowerment At the Heart of AU's Interest
SAnews.gov.za, 13 June 2015
Johannesburg - The African Union (AU) has been commended for consistently putting women at the heart of the development of Africa Agenda 2063, and declaring 2015 a year of women… Read more »
African Union Focuses on Empowering Women
Ahead of the arrival of African heads of state - including Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari and Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta but excluding Egypt's President Abdul Fattah el Sisi - for the African Union summit, the focus was on the empowerment of women.
AllAfrica's news partners also featured a wide range of other issues facing the continent, from agriculture to human rights, and infrastructure to how to try crimes against international humanitarian law.
African Union chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and United Nations Special Envoy for Refugee Issues, actress Angelina Jolie Pitt, discussing the empowerment of women during the AU Summit in Johannesburg.
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The AU meet presents an opportunity to consider how healthy oceans and the prosperity and security of people are intertwined, writes Timothy Walker for the Institute for Security ... Read more »
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The theme of the African Union summit is likely to be eclipsed by pressing peace and security issues, while xenophobia, migration and terrorism will also be high on the agenda, ... Read more »
