{"id":11366,"date":"2019-04-29T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=11366"},"modified":"2019-04-29T16:19:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:19:02","slug":"the-journey-towards-gender-equality-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/the-journey-towards-gender-equality-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journey towards gender equality continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><span lang=\"FR\"><span class=\"m_-8403769671441422525gmail-il\"><span class=\"il\"><span lang=\"en\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11367 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/convening.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/convening.png 940w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/convening-450x338.png 450w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/convening-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 1- Participants at the North Africa Convening of women&#8217;s rights organisations and feminists movements<\/h6>\n<h6>By Ablodegbo Ameyo Savi Dekoleadenu<\/h6>\n<h6>29\/04\/2019<\/h6>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Since the Beijing Declaration in September 1995, Women\u2019s rights issues in Africa have registered significant progress. For example, in the area of \u200b\u200bwomen&#8217;s political participation in Africa, the report on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/Documents\/Issues\/Women\/WRGS\/WomensRightsinAfrica_singlepages.pdf\">Women&#8217;s Rights in Africa<\/a>&#8221; \u200b\u200bhighlights a major improvement, showing Rwanda (61.3%), South Africa (42.7%) and Senegal (41.8%) in the top 11 of the world ranking of <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.ipu.org\/wmn-e\/classif.htm\">women&#8217;s representation in national parliaments.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">In countries like Mauritius, Liberia, Malawi, and the Central African Republic, women have been elected into office as President and Vice-President of their republics. Also, for the first time in its history, Ethiopia is currently headed by a woman. Togo, Senegal, Mozambique and several African countries have ratified several conventions that guarantee respect for women&#8217;s rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Despite all this progress however, women are still deprived of some of their rights in various aspects of their lives. The exclusion of women (especially rural women) in decision-making processes and \u00a0in the process of social development; female genital mutilation; child marriage, illiteracy, social constraints, religious extremism, Sexual harassment, domestic violence, the exploitation of women by men and many others constitute obstacles to the full enjoyment of women&#8217;s rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">In North Africa, feminist movements and women&#8217;s organisations hold up the torch of hope and continue to be active in the struggle for women&#8217;s rights. In Morocco, <strong>Association D\u00e9mocratique des Femmes du Maroc (ADFM),<\/strong> a grantee organisation of the African Women&#8217;s Development Fund (AWDF) and <strong>the Fondation YTTO pour l\u2019h\u00e9bergement et la R\u00e9habilitation des Femmes Victimes de Violences<\/strong>, actively contribute to the promotion of women\u2019s rights through their work to support women, (especially rural women) in their region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">ADFM is more involved in reform projects with the main objective of promoting women&#8217;s strategic rights and interests. ADFM is a co-founder of the \u201c<strong>coalition printemps de la dignit\u00e9 pour la r\u00e9forme du code penal<\/strong>\u201d and has supported the soulaliyates women in obtaining equal treatment in land rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Every year, YTTO Foundation organises a social caravan. The overall objective is to increase awareness on women\u2019s rights issues and integrate women&#8217;s movements through village associations. The caravan consists of a multi-activity action in which there are free medical and legal consultations and workshops for women entitled &#8220;Madam you have rights &#8211; Express yourself&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><em>To help North African countries fight for the rights of African women, the African Women&#8217;s Development Fund (AWDF) organised a convening of feminist and women&#8217;s organisations on 17 and 18 April 2019 at the Odyss\u00e9e Center Hotel, Casablanca, Morocco. The main objective of this convening is to share not only the successes achieved by feminists\u2019 activists, but also the challenges they face and discuss ways of collaborations and opportunities.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><em>The African Women&#8217;s Development Fund was established in June 2000, as an Africa-wide philanthropic, grant making initiative to support the realisation and fulfilment of African women\u2019s rights through funding of autonomous women\u2019s organisations on the continent. AWDF supports change-makers; African women\u2019s activist organisations and individuals who have held and advanced the line on women\u2019s rights.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":11367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Journey towards gender equality continues - The African Women&#039;s Development Fund (AWDF)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/the-journey-towards-gender-equality-continues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Journey towards gender equality continues - 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