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Kenyan Campaigners Encourage Land Rights for Rural Women

Campaigners during the International Day of Rural Women which held recently in Kenya, have said a new legislation should be enacted to eliminate institutional and cultural barriers that have denied rural women access to arable land. Naomi Lanoi, a gender rights campaigner with Kenya Land Alliance, said expanding access to land among rural women is key to tackling abject poverty and food insecurity in the country. “Rural women are intimately linked to land and their exclusion from access and ownership of this resource will negatively affect the production of staple food in the country,” said Lanoi in a commentary published by Sunday Nation. Kenyan campaigners marked the day of rural women with a call for enactment of global and domestic legal instruments that root for gender equality in land ownership. Lanoi regretted that despite the enactment of affirmative action policies and laws, Kenya is yet to bridge a glaring disparity…

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Five Jordanian Women Win Best Tech Award at US Convention

Five Jordanian women participating in the TechWomen 17, the biggest gathering for women in technology in the world, held in the US, have won the first prize for the best technological project, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported on Tuesday. Participants said that the winning project was among 20 that were presented to a jury inclusive of Microsoft and other major companies in the Silicon Valley. Medical engineer and medical marketing expert Thilal Sharman said that it is the first time that a Jordanian and an Arab project wins the award. Ala Agha Karss, the founder and CTO of Superiors ICT, said that the project is called “Orphans in Jordan” and focuses on the low percentage of orphans going to university as a result of psychological and financial problems. Karss said that the project offered a way to address the problem through an electronic platform with the participation of Jordanian…

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Flying through Childhood Dreams

Growing up as a young girl, Asli Hassan Abade the first and only female pilot in the Somali air force, as well as the first female military pilot in Africa and in the Arab world, spent most of her childhood days watching airplanes take off and land at the Mogadishu airport. Asli was born on the first of January 1958, in Mogadishu, Somalia. She lived with her parents Hawa Aden and Hassan Abade and nine siblings in a house close to the Mogadishu airport. She grew up in a family with huge public service record most of which were high-positioned military officers, mostly before the civil war. With the unique dream of becoming a pilot, she was determined to pursue her passion until it became reality no matter what it might take. Apart from her little fantasies drawn from watching planes at the Mogadishu airport, the military influence in her…

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Women & SDG

The Role of Financial Institutions in Women-Owned Small Businesses By: Miracle Nwankwo

In recent times, the emergence of female-owned small businesses around the world have exceeded its record of the past, this is largely dependent on the fact that each day, women develop unique ideas and business strategies towards improving their lives and participating in the global economic development. Research has shown that female-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make up to 30 percent to 37 percent of all SMEs (8 million to 10 million women-owned firms) in the emerging markets. This result does not exclude the rural women in developing countries. However, these women and their businesses are faced with a general challenge which has to do with finance. Due to several issues ranging from collateral, trust, and so on, women entrepreneurs face difficulties in obtaining bank credit compared to men. This limitation has crippled the general access to finance majorly for the women entrepreneurs in rural areas. In India, several…

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