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South Sudan: How Digitalization Can Advance Equality and Peace For Women, Girls in Post-Conflict South Sudan
allAfrica, 23 March 2023
South Sudan, as the world's youngest country, faces many challenges and uncertainty in achieving peace. Shortly after gaining independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011, a civil war… Read more »
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East Africa: Horn of Africa - Using Digital Technologies to Advance Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Africa Renewal, 17 March 2023
Online platforms provide unique opportunities to women's political, economic, and social inclusion, which requires sustained commitment by the international community. Read more »
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Africa: Digital Technology New Source of Discrimination Against Women - Guterres
UN News, 13 March 2023
During a dialogue with women civil society leaders in the UN General Assembly Hall on Monday, Secretary-General António Guterres heard about the critical need to make the… Read more »
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Africa: Cracking the Code to a Fairer Digital Future for Women
UN News, 8 March 2023
The inequalities faced by women in the real world are also prevalent online. On International Women's Day, celebrated on 8 March, the UN is raising awareness of these disparities,… Read more »
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South Sudan: No Justice for Women, No Peace in South Sudan
African Arguments, 19 March 2021
The South Sudan crisis since 2013 has caused untold suffering to South Sudanese women. They have experienced displacement, loss of family members and gross human rights violations,… Read more »
How ICT Can Advance Equality, Peace in Post-Conflict South Sudan
During this year's UN Commission for the Status of Women (CSW) policy makers, women-led organisations and activists met to address the widespread inequalities, violence, and discrimination women and girls continue to face, all around the world.
This year's 67th session of the CSW was under the theme of Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.
South Sudan, as the world's youngest country, faces many challenges and uncertainty in achieving peace. As online platforms continue to move the world forward and provide opportunities for women's political, economic, and social inclusion, South Sudanese women and girls are left behind with little to no access to digital technology.
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When the country's President Salva Kiir made changes to the Cabinet, most South Sudanese just took it as one of the many decrees from the head of state usually read out on state ... Read more »
