PRESS RELEASE 30 June 2010 Contact: Charlotte Bunch, 732-642-5271 or cbunch@ig.org, Bani Dugal, 646-404-4210 or bdugal@bic.org, Rachel Harris, 301-535-9702 or rachel@wedo.org UN Women Born: Civil Society Celebrates Creation of Gender Equality Entity After Four Years of Advocacy The Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign celebrates the United Nations General Assembly resolution, agreed to on 30 [...]
The African Commission on Human and Peoples™ Rights, meeting at its 47th Ordinary Session held in Banjul, The Gambia, from 12 to 26 May 2010 Recognising that the African Commission on Human and Peoples™ Rights has a fundamental role to protect the most vulnerable groups in Africa against human rights abuses; Recognising also that a [...]
Responsibility: Coordinate the African Grantmakers’ Network Reports to: AGN Steering Committee Liaises with: Member-organizations of AGN Location: The coordinator will preferably be based within one of the AGN member organizations, but other locations may be considered. Specific Responsibilities Working under the supervision of the Chairperson and Co-Chairperson of the steering committee of the AGN, the [...]
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) in collaboration with Lufodo Productions is convening an African Women in Film Forum, 16th-17th June 2010 in Lagos, Nigeria. This forum is being held to facilitate a dialogue on women’s rights with movie producers and writers, and establish a Gender Dialogue with the `Nollywood’ sector in Nigeria. In order [...]
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) will be participating in the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York, USA, as well as several parallel events, February 27th -8th March, 2010. On Monday 1st of March, 2010, AWDF will hold the New York launch of an exciting new publication ‘Voice, [...]
Statement from the Africa Women’s NGO Consultative Meeting Beijing +15 Review November 16, 2009, Banjul, The Gambia We, the representatives of civil society organisations addressing women’s and human rights issues across Africa, meeting in the margins of the 8th Africa Regional Conference on Women (Beijing +15) on November 15 and 16, 2009 in Banjul, The [...]
African Governments Challenged to Live-up to Commitments in the Beijing Platform for Action Civil society organisations meeting at the Africa Women’s NGO Consultative Meeting in the margins of the Eighth Africa Regional Conference on Women (Beijing+15) in Banjul, The Gambia, are calling on African Governments to urgently accelerate implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action [...]
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IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE 13th November, 2009 AWDF AT REGIONAL REVIEW OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BEIJING PLATFORM FOR ACTION IN AFRICA (BEIJING+ 15) The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) will be participating in the Fifteen Year Review of the Beijing Platform for Action in Africa, to be held in Banjul, the Gambia between the 16th [...]
Young Women Campaign Against AIDS (YWCAA) Young Women Campaign Against AIDS (YWCAA) is a registered Non Governmental Organization in Kenya founded by a group of young female University graduates. The group that began as a merry-go-round in 2000 had an objective of economic empowerment through member contribution and loaning facility for members to start up [...]
