By Jonathan Kamoga
Eight months after government banned the export of Ugandan women to work as house- maids in the Middle East due to mistreatment, traffickers are using the internet to net their victims.
This was revealed by 22-year-old Grace Apio*, who has just returned from a tragic three-week stint in the United Arab Emirates, where she lost a colleague to suicide.
Coinciding with the beginning of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, UN Women, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Always/Whisper celebrate the ‘One Win Leads to Another’ initiative, a programme that empowers women and girls through sport.
According to the World Bank, the UAE female labour participation rate (FLPR) in 2014 was 46 per cent. It means that nearly half of the country’s female population is working.
Asnath Mahapa was fascinated by planes as a teenager; little did she know she would break boundaries with them by becoming South Africa’s first African female pilot.
“It just dawned on me that those big things that we see in the skies, someone is actually in charge of them,” she told CNN. “I thought if someone can fly this thing that means I can also do it.”
UAE’s leadership has an aim to raise the country’s ranking to one of the top 25 countries in the world for gender equality by the year 2021 through women’s empowerment initiatives, the vice-president of the UAE Gender Balance Council said on Tuesday.
“The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.” – President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Did you ever have one of those embarrassing teenage moments, growing up; when you find your skirts badly stained with menstrual blood, and you have to walk around the rest of the day with a huge cardigan tied around your waist? Many adolescent girls have had to deal with such situations, especially in developing countries with over 200 million adolescent girls living in poverty. Thanks to many recent innovations specifically designed to reduce the “Shame of Menstruation” as it is often referred. This situation is greatly reduced.
