It was not business as usual at the United Nations (UN) complex today as Delphine Serumaga led her staff to paint the whole compound orange. All staff and visitors were wearing orange to mark the UN Secretary General's…
Tino Hond: "U should see the horror in young girls eyes when I share my growing up stories and what it took to make something of myself. Then comes admiration, inspiration and the birth of a desire to rise too. Ko…
Nyaradzai Gumbonzvanda, AU Goodwill Ambassador for Ending Child Marriages and Secretary General of World YWCA shares best practices from Africa on Ending Child Marriages. According to Nyaradzai, the word ‘marriage’ does not…
26th GIMAC on the Margins of June 2015 AU Summit 08 – 09 June 2015 - Johannesburg, South Africa “Financing for Gender Equality: A Priority Now More than Ever Before” Letty Chiwara is the UN Women Representative to Ethiopia,…
Preparations to open the 26th Gender is my Agenda Campaign (GIMAC) Pre-Summit Consultative Meeting on Gender Mainstreaming in the African Union are running high in Sandton, South Africa. The meeting takes place from the 8th…
ISWI, which stands for International Student Week- Ilmenau, is an international students' conference that brings exceptional students from across the globe involved in different youth programs and activities to discuss and…
I am taking time to reflect on the just ended policy and practice dialogue held on the 1th of May in Harare. The dialogue was a result of a partnership between UNDP Zimbabwe and UN Women Zimbabwe The dialogue attracted more…
“The UN Women Peace Study had the effect of making me respect the rights that I take for granted every day. It also compels me to respect those who brought these rights into being.” Sthembile Mpofu, Centre for Conflict…
Honourable Ministers present, Honourable Members of Parliament, Government Officials Present, Representatives of the Security Sector, Representatives from Civil Society and the Academia, Private Sector, Development…
Firstly, I would like to thank UN Women and UNDP for asking me to be a discussant on this panel. It has given me the opportunity to read a very important report and while doing so forced me to think critically about two…
Facilitating the policy and practice dialogue on Women’s Roles in Peacebuilding, combined initiative by UN Women and UNDP Zimbabwe that took place in Harare yesterday, William Tsuma, the Dialogue Advisor with UNDP gave the…
The policy and practice dialogue on women's roles in peace-building and conflict transformation organised jointly by UN Women Zimbabwe and UNDP Zimbabwe and held at Meikels Hotel in Harare attracted unimagined attention from…
On a steamy morning in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador I garden with a group of Indigenous Achuar women, harvesting beautiful cassava that will later be chewed and fermented to make chicha. The Achuar women possess…
I take a bold step today to speak up against gender based violence. I take a bold step to inspire women and children around the world. I take a bold step to make a difference and contribute positively to the development of…
Equality is as much a question of access as it is about fairness. Access to opportunities is crucial to levelling the field between the genders. Access, more importantly, provides that a person’s circumstances do not…
We are all disabled in one form or the other as human beings. Some can see with their eyes but can't fly with their hands; some can speak with their mouth but can't hear beyond a kilometre. Isn't it inaccurate to think that…
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) in collaboration with FEMRITE – Uganda Women Writers Association, invites African women writers and journalists to apply for the Writing for Social Change Workshop 2015. This 10-…
Nous sommes une synergie des organisations de la société civile basées au Nord-Kivu, Sud –Kivu et à Kinshasa, ainsi que d’autres citoyens congolais défendant les droits des femmes en République Démocratique du Congo(RDC) au…
Dans notre pays il y a une injustice qui règne sur les nouveaux majeur car moi aussi je suis parmi. En 2016 dans notre pays il y aura élection du président de la république, de députés nationaux et provinciaux, mais ce qui…
The inequalities between men and women excite in my community in all the activities .To ever come the barriers to women full. Inequalities between men and women excite in my community in almost all activities. Religion and…
I just finished a free live online inspirational talk for women on 8 May 2015. Here is a short snippet from it. Basically those who attended, were motivated to look within themselves and establish a sense of inner peace, so…
A Non-White Female in South Africa I was born and raised in South Africa, discriminated against as a “non-white”. I left the country as a young woman to accept a scholarship to study in the USA. For over 20 years now, I’ve…
27 year old Ahlam struggles to provide a life for her 6 year old daughter, as she works 12 hour night shifts cleaning hotel rooms while trying to complete basic literacy courses. Her husband and sister were killed in Iraq…
