WAO Urges Government to Enact Gender Equality Law
Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO) wants the government to show firm commitment in enacting the Gender Equality Act in a bid to curb discrimination. Its executive director, Sumitra Visvanathan, said such law was needed to ensure that women would be protected in every aspect of life. “We actually have been advocating the act for quite a while with JAG (Joint Action Group for Gender Equality) to draft the act, but we now want to know what are the next steps and when will it happen as we want things to move forward as planned to see the legislation done. “There are some indications saying that it will be done in 2020, yet there is nothing from the government for this until today,“ she told reporters after the launch of a report on the status of women’s human rights after 24 years of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of…
CDC, TheBoardroom to double women on boards in Africa
The U.K. development finance institution CDC is committing £1.6 million to TheBoardroom Africa to assist in doubling the number of women occupying company board…
Modern Day Marriage – The Woman’s Role
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Hi lady! Running late for dinner? Too tired to cook? Ouch! How about we make this fun? And dinner is served quicker with minimal…
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Always Aim High
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Zambia Launches Vision Zero Campaign to Prevent Occupational Accidents
By John Chola ZAMBIA has finally launched the global Vision Zero campaign, a process aimed at building a culture of prevention of occupational accidents…
I Believe in Being Strong When Everything Seems to Be Going Wrong
“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that…
Women Are the Real Superheroes – Why Not Look the Part?
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STEM: The World’s Offense Against Women
Several years ago, we could say that there was a huge career gap between the genders all over the world. More women were involved…
