Canada will take in female Afghan judges and their families who have been living in limbo, primarily in Greece since their evacuation from Afghanistan in the fall, a spokesperson for the immigration minister has said.
The United Nations in Somalia recently partnered with Ifrah Foundation, a leading Somali non-governmental organization, to step up the fight against female genital mutilation (FGM) in two of the Horn of Africa country’s Federal Member States.
By Goodnews Buekor
Stella is a pain in the neck! Roseline blurted out.
She controls and pushes everyone around in the house. Simply because she is our eldest sibling, she decides what T.V station we should watch, she gets the lion’s share of everything, and she bosses everyone around.
“The business of business should not just be about money, it should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed.” Dame Anita Lucia Roddick, DBE British Businesswoman, Human Rights Activist and Environmental Campaigner.
The Nigeria Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen, has reiterated the federal government’s commitment to prioritise programmes that will empower women and contribute to national economic development.
By Goodnews Buekor
“Are you silly Jane? There is nothing you do that doesn’t go wrong.
Who exactly did you take after? You are not like your father, nor like me. I wonder how I gave birth to a dullard like you.
Chanting for gender equality and bearing purple banners, thousands of people took to the streets across the world in marches to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
