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Nigeria: Minister Makes Case for National Gender Policy
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:44:23 GMT
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajia Sulematu Suleiman has said that the National Gender Policy "will lead to enhanced equality and equity in our society, and therefore should be given high priority."
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Uganda: Woman Killed, Eight Injured in Accident
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:49:53 GMT
AN unidentified woman died and eight passengers were injured when a truck loaded with dairy products rammed into six commuter taxis in Kampala yesterday.
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Angola: Minister Defends Women's Contribution to Family Stabilisation
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:45:27 GMT
The Angolan minister of Family and Women Promotion, Genoveva da Conceição Lino, defended last Wednesday in the northern Uíge Province the necessity for females to contribute decisively to the resolution of problems that interfere in the stabilisation of Family, by allowing this important nucleus of society to fully participate in the country's development process.
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Chad: Women Protest Domestic Violence
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:33:49 GMT
Cécile Moutouba marched with a knife in one hand, a stick in the other. She said her husband has used both against her.
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Nigeria: Nembe, Bassambiri Feud - Women Vow to Go Naked As Committee Plans to Reconvene
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:41:43 GMT
The committee set up to resolve the warring parties in the lingering Nembe Bassambiri feud is to reconvened in a fortnight even as aggrieved women of the community yesterday voiced their displeasure before members of the committee put in place by the Bayelsa State government, threatening to go naked and place curse on those thwarting the peace moves.
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Ghana: Call Me Mr. Speaker
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:14:57 GMT
It began like a slip of tongue when Majority leader, Alban Bagbin first addressed the newly sworn Speaker of Parliament, Justice Mrs. Joyce Bamford-Addo as Mr. Speaker, but after persistent repetitions from members of the House, it was realized the Standing Orders of Parliament was not gender sensitive enough, to recognize women for the position.
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Ghana: GTA Treasurer Appeals to Gov't To Ensure Complete Gender Balance
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:14:52 GMT
The National Treasurer of the Ghana Timber Association (GTA), Mr. Issac Kofi Nketiah, has commended President John Evans Atta Mills for the nomination, and subsequent confirmation of the Justice Joyce Bamford Addo, as the new Speaker of Parliament.
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Uganda: Support MP's Move On Genital Mutilation
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:45:27 GMT
The decision by Kinkizi County East Member of Parliament, Dr. Chris Baryomunsi, to present a private member's Bill seeking to abolish female genital mutilation (FGM) is laudable. It is, in fact, long overdue.
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Nigeria: The Neglected Widows of Odi
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:50:18 GMT
The recent appeal by a group of widows in Odi, a community in Bayelsa State, to the wife of Bayelsa State Governor Mrs. Alanyigi Sylva to help them acquire cassava processing plants and snail farms to enable them to provide for their orphaned children, has, once again, brought to the fore the very sorry plight of the many women and children whose husbands and fathers were gruesomely murdered by soldiers callously unleashed on them by the Obasanjo regime in November 1999. The Amanana-Arau of Odi, Charity Ayaowei, made this plea when Mrs. Sylva visited more than 160 widows in Odi recently.
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Angola: Civil Society Calls for Valorisation of Woman Social Status
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:39:43 GMT
Women integrated in female organisations of the civil society Wednesday spoke of the need for valorisation of the social status of women in general and particularly in northern Uije province, in the defence of the rights and main liberties, Angop learned.
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