Liberia: ‘Women Will Vote Those Who Champion Their Cause’ – Solanke
By Ballah M. Kollie The Executive Director of Community Healthcare, Naomi Solanke, has cautioned that women will only support aspirants who will champion their cause and concerns in their political manifestoes. “If our agenda is not inclusive in terms of what we support at the grassroots levels of women, we are not going to carry you,” she stressed. She sounded the caution at the start of a three-day Feminist Agenda Setting meeting funded by Urgent Action Fund Africa held at a local hotel in Monrovia. Solanke said she expects that after the workshop participants will return to their respective communities and sensitize other women on the matter. According to her, women will continue to push local actors and make them knowledgeable of the need to continuously protect women, even after the presidential tenure of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. “She has played her part and is about to leave; so the…
China Convicts US Businesswoman for Spying
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Saudi Arabia Elected to UN Women’s Rights Commission
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Mexican Bank Intervenes after Woman, 116, Deemed ‘too old’ for Card
Born at the turn of the past century, Maria Félix is old enough to remember the Mexican Revolution – but too old to get…
Technology Sector has largest ‘like-for-like’ Gender Pay Gap in UK, Survey Shows
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Dealing with Materialism in Relationships
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong, 75,…
How to handle Abnormal Veins
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THE MATRIARCH: JOYCE BANDA
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Turning Children’s Dreams to Reality- Buds of Christ
With the theme “empowering children enabling wellbeing”, the Buds of Christ; an Indian organization catering for orphan children and striving to make these children…
