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Africa: Progress Won Over Decades is Vanishing Before Our Eyes - UN Chief
VOA, 6 March 2023
The United Nations secretary-general warned Monday at the start of a major women's conference that at the current pace, gender equality is projected to be 300 years away. Read more »
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Africa: Want Gender Justice? Invest in Women Lawyers
allAfrica, 8 March 2023
One of my mentors, human rights lawyer Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff of Sierra Leone, once told me: "Individuals can be broken, they can be silenced. But it is very hard to kill an… Read more »
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Africa: The Pandemic Exposed Gender Inequality - Let's Seize the Opportunity to Remedy It
The Conversation Africa, 7 March 2023
This year, we are commemorating International Women's Day alongside the three-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »
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IPS, 6 March 2023
The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women's Day, March 8. Read more »
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Africa: How to Get More African Women Leaders in Business and Tech
allAfrica, 7 March 2023
While there are increasingly more African women in leadership roles, they are still significantly under-represented but there are a number of things businesses can do to change… Read more »
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Africa: CSW - Advancing Women's Rights Since 1946
UN News, 6 March 2023
The annual UN Commission for the Status of Women (CSW) meets in March each year to address the widespread inequalities, violence and discrimination women continue to face, all… Read more »
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Zambia: Imagine the Future We Want - Transforming Internet Governance to Eliminate Online Inequalities
Africa Renewal, 1 March 2023
Tech has shaped the lives of young people in profound and unique ways, hence the need to invest in it Read more »
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Africa: Power On - How We Can Supercharge an Equitable Digital Future
Africa Renewal, 24 February 2023
From online learning and digital activism to the rapid expansion of high-paying tech jobs, the digital age has generated unprecedented opportunities for the empowerment of women… Read more »
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UNECA, 5 December 2022
Addis Ababa, 01 December 2022 (ECA) - Building inclusive innovation and technology ecosystems must be at the heart of efforts to leverage the potential of innovation and technology… Read more »
Full Gender Equality Still Centuries Away, Warns UN #IWD2023
At current rates, it will take almost another three centuries to bring about equality for women and girls, according to the United Nations (UN). That is why every year in March, the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) convenes to discuss the pervasive injustices, violence, and discrimination that women continue to experience throughout the world.
Hobbled by persistent inequalities, about 383 million women and girls live in extreme poverty, and every 11 minutes, a woman or girl is killed by someone in her own family. These are some of the reasons why the CSW remains relevant and has been a vitally important fixture on the United Nations calendar since its inception, shortly after the establishment of the UN itself.
InFocus
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Headlines all around the world focus on climate projections about rising sea levels and high temperatures - but we rarely discuss how girls and women are most hit by climate ... Read more »
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The continent has the highest rate of female entrepreneurs globally with approximately 26% of female adults involved in entrepreneurial activity contributing between U.S.$250 Read more »
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African countries are far from achieving women's equal and effective participation in political decision-making. Women constitute only 24% of the 12,113 parliamentarians in Africa, ... Read more »
A woman sells food at a market in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (file photo).
