IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE 10th February 2010 The Launch of the African Women’s Development Fund’s Resource Centre On the 10th of February, 2010, The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) with support from The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) will launch a resource facility for African Women at AWDF House, 78 Ambassadorial Enclave, East Legon, Accra, Ghana. […]

I would like to thank the Human Rights and Peace Centre for inviting me here this afternoon to share my views on this bill. It is great that HURIPEC organized this to be a dialogue and not a debate because debates have a tendency to polarize and divide along irrational gut-level responses. A dialogue, on […]

Over the past two decades there have been conscious global efforts to promote women’s participation in politics. Some of these efforts include the Beijing Conference held in 1995 with the main agenda being women’s empowerment. The international community has also underscored the importance of women assuming positions of power and influence, not only because their […]

African Governments Challenged to Live-up to Commitments in the Beijing Platform for Action Civil society organisations meeting at the Africa Women’s NGO Consultative Meeting in the margins of the Eighth Africa Regional Conference on Women (Beijing+15) in Banjul, The Gambia, are calling on African Governments to urgently accelerate implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action […]

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Over the years, The Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children – GAMCOTRAP has been engaged in consistent grassroots activism and social mobilisation through training and sensitization activities to raise consciousness of men and women on the Effects of FGM on the reproductive health rights of women and girl-children. The […]