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Gender
| Last Updated 19/11/2009 21:54:00
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 | Ping charges govts to implement Beijing Platform on women | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Chairperson, African Union Commission, Dr. Jean Ping
, has said the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action was essentially
the responsibility of governments and the public, private and non-governmental i
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stitutions at national, sub-regional and international levels.
19/11/2009 full text... |
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| Women are equal in policy, decision making, says UN top shot | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Beijing Platform for Action not only emphasises achi
eving equality, womenâ?s political and economic empowerment and eliminating disc
rimination but also focuses on the integration of women as full and equal partne
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s in all policies and decision-making processes, a senior United Nations Officia
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said.
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| Gender activists want female candidate for AU Commission | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) â" Gender activists meeting in Banjul, the Gambia, have c
alled for â?deliberate effortsâ? towards the nomination of female candidates fo
r African Union Commission chair â?as a sign of equal sharing of leadership and
responsibilities for delivering on the development agendaâ? on the continent, ac
cording to a statement received here by PANA Wednesday.
18/11/2009 full text... |
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| African regional conference on women opens in Gambia | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The United Nations Commission for Africas has called on
governments and the international community to prioritise achievements of gender
equality and womenâ? rights because this was essential for reducing poverty and
promoting growth.
16/11/2009 full text... |
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| Gambia hosts African Regional Conference on Women | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Gambia will host the â?African Regional Conference
on Womenâ?, dubbed (Beijing+15), with over 28 African ministers in charge of ge
nder affairs and high level participants from some 43 countries expected to atte
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d, the Addis Ababa-based Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the main organise
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, said in a communiqueâ? received here by PANA Friday.
13/11/2009 full text... |
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| WHO seeks action beyond health sector to improve women's needs | | Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Despite considerable progress in the past decades,
societies continue to fail to meet the health care needs of women at key moments
of their lives, particularly in their adolescent years and in old age, a World H
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alth Organisation (WHO) report has found.
09/11/2009 full text... |
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| Mauritius to empower women to achieve food security | | Réduit, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Womenâ?s Rights Minister Indranee Seebun,
has said that the country's National Women Council will place land (fenced and
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eady for cultivation) at the disposal of women entrepreneurs, grouped in agricul
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ural societies, who want to engage in crop production.
30/10/2009 full text... |
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| Kinshasa hosts 3rd international conference on women | | Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The third edition of the international conference on
black women, which is a group of talented women who have come together to bette
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participate in an emerging new Africa, will be held in Kinshasa 28 November - 4
December.
20/10/2009 full text... |
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| UNFPA urges males to fight for gender equality | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The representative of the United Nations Fund for Popula
tion Activities (UNFPA) to Senegal, Mrs Rose Gakuba, on Tuesday called for a sig
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ificant contribution of men and boys to the fight for gender equality.
13/10/2009 full text... |
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| Violence against women increasing in Mauritania | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Hundreds of serious cases of violence against wo
men were recorded in Mauritania between 2007 and 2009, the Chairperson of the As
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ociation to fight Against Dependence (ALCD-RIHAB), Mrs. Fatimetou Mint Ahmed Jid
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ou, disclosed on Thursday.
24/09/2009 full text... |
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| SA lawyer is UN rights expert on women | | New York, US (PANA) - South African lawyer Rashida Manjoo, who has also worked a
s an academic in the human rights field
and a campaigner against domestic violence, has taken over as the new UN indepen
dent expert to tackle violence
against women.
28/08/2009 full text... |
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| Study accuses health practitioners of carrying out FGM | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Health care practitioners are now performing Female Geni
tal Mutilation {FGM} in a process known as â?medicalizationâ?, which tends to r
einforce and legitimize FGM, hence hindering the global effort towards its aband
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nment, a recent study claims.
06/08/2009 full text... |
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| Investment in African food security: Top scientists make case for women | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Expressing concern over the lack of women in decision-ma
king roles in agricultural development issues in Africa,
a group of leading African women scientists has urged African leaders and US pol
icymakers to put women at the centre of efforts to address
chronic hunger and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.
05/08/2009 full text... |
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| UN official pleads for gender equality in Africa | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - West Africa's regional representative for the UN
High Commission for Human rights, Mahamane Cisse-Gouro, said Wednesday in Dakar
that African governments must make more efforts to guarantee gender equality.
29/07/2009 full text... |
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| Egypt to establish NIEW branch in Cairo | | Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt has agreed to set up a branch of the Non-Aligned Mov
ement (NAM) Institute for the Empowerment of Women (NIEW) in Cairo as suggested
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y Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, wife of the Malaysian Prime Minister.
18/07/2009 full text... |
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| Museveni, traditionalists differ on female circumcision | | Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - While the Ugandan leader, Yoweri Museveni, criticized F
emale Genital Mutilation (FGM) as ‘interference’ with God’s works and then banne
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the age-old practice in his country, some traditionalists here are set to resis
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the government’s action.
14/07/2009 full text... |
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| Kadhafi calls for a “women's revolution” | | Rome, Italy (PANA) - Libyan leader and current chairman of the African Union
(AU), Mouammar Kadhafi, has stressed the need for a” women's revolution” worldwi
de to correct the false notion of equality between men and women.
13/06/2009 full text... |
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| Int'l human rights league targets 4 African countries | | N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - The International Federation of the Human Rights League
s (FIDH) will pay particular attention this year to the welfare of women in four
African countries of Botswana, Burundi, the DR of Congo and Togo, a communique i
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sued Friday in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, said.
05/06/2009 full text... |
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| Mauritanian NGO wants alleged children trafficking investigated | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Association of Female Heads of Families (AFC
F) wants Mauritanian authorities to investigate the existence of a "large networ
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involved in under-18 girls' sex trafficking between Mauritania and Saudi Arabia
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in a statement made available to PANA here on Tuesday.
26/05/2009 full text... |
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| Gambia hosts AU gender experts' meeting | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - A three-day international meeting bringing together expe
rts on gender and related issues organised by the African Union (AU) and Gambian
government gets underway in Banjul official sources confirmed to PANA Thursday.
07/05/2009 full text... |
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| UNIFEM executive director due in Burundi | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Executive Director of the United Nations Development
Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Ines Alberdi, Wednesday begins a three-day working vis
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t to the Burundi capital, a year after she was appointed to the office, diplomat
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c sources told PANA.
06/05/2009 full text... |
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| Nigerian president laments gender, youth problems in Africa | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on Thursday told
the visiting Commonwealth Secretary General, Dr. Kamalesh Sharma, that issues of
gender empowerment and youth presented a great challenge, especially in Africa a
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d Asia , and should receive the attention of the organisation.
16/04/2009 full text... |
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| Congolese women protest in Brussels against rape | | Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – Scores of Congolese women protested on Sunday in the
centre of the Belgian capital, Brussels, against rampant rape of Congolese women
in North Kivu in the Central African state as the world marked International Wo
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en's Day.
09/03/2009 full text... |
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| AU at frontline of fight against gender-based violence | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – As the world celebrates international Women’s Day
on Sunday, the African Union (AU) is once again being seen as pushing itself to
the forefront of the fight against discrimination against women, a significant p
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oblem facing many African countries.
07/03/2009 full text... |
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| International Women's Day - A century old event | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Although the UN established International Women’s
Day only in 1977, the Day, which falls on Sunday, has its roots in an action of
women factory workers in the United States more than a century ago.
07/03/2009 full text... |
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