Young Women Leaders Accra
Wednesday 20 July 2011
Generation Alive: The Power of ICT's/ Social Media in Womens Movemen...
Wednesday 13 July 2011
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Media and Women
Wednesday 6 July 2011
Equality!!!
Yet discrimination against women and girls - including gender-based violence, discrimination, reproductive, and harmful traditional practices - remains the most pervasive and persistent form of inequality. Women and girls bear enormous hardship during and after humanitarian emergencies, especially armed conflicts.
Young Women Leaders let our voices be heard, let’s make a change or be part of this change, let’s fight a cause that will better our tomorrow and the tomorrow of others.
Monday 4 July 2011
Lets Not be Afraid to Speak Out!
Taking a Stand Against Practices That Harm Women
- At least 130 million women have been forced to undergo female genital mutilation/cutting. Another 2 million are at risk each year from this degrading and dangerous practice.
- Killings in the name of 'honour' take the lives of thousands of young women every year, mainly in Western Asia, North Africa and parts of South Asia.
- Forced early marriage of young girls or adolescents is another practice that can cause lifelong psychological as well as physical problems, especially those resulting from early childbearing.
In most industrialized societies, although gender-based violence is officially condemned, it persists, implicitly sanctioned by messages in mass media.
In some developing countries, practices that subjugate and harm women - such as wife-beating, killings in the name of honour, female genital mutilation/cutting and dowry deaths - are condoned as being part of the natural order of things. Throughout much of Asia, a preference for male children results in the neglect and sometimes infanticide of girls, or their elimination by abortion in places where prenatal tests are available to determine the sex of the foetus.
And as conflicts among ethnic groups rage, women and girls have increasingly become pawns of war, and face rape and forced pregnancies. FGM/FGC, coerced sex and early marriage are also factors in the spread of HIV to women.
Eradicating long-standing traditional practices does not happen overnight. One way to begin, though, is by information and advocacy that raises public awareness and changes the climate of public opinion.