Gender equality is, first and foremost, a human right. Women are entitled to live in dignity and in freedom from want and from fear. Empowering women is also an indispensable tool for advancing development and reducing poverty.
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.
BECAUSE
ReplyDeletea woman’s work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious, and we’re the first to get the sack, and what we look like is more important that what we do or have to offer, and if we get raped it’s our fault, and if we get bashed we must have provoked it, and if we enjoy sex we are nymphomaniacs, and if we don’t we are frigid and if we love women it’s because we can’t get a real man, and if we ask our doctor too many questions we are neurotic, and if we expect community care for our children, we are selfish and if we stand for our rights, we are aggressive and ‘unfeminine’ and if we want to get married we are out to trap a man and if we don’t, we are unnatural, and because we still can’t get safe contraceptive, yet men can walk on the moon, and if we can’t cope or don’t want a pregnancy, we are made to feel guilty about abortion, and lots of other reasons, we are part of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
Well said Sisters! We have to keep doing what we do to eradicate these stereotypes.The world has evolved in so many ways:our systems; technologically and infrastructurally.Yet still these changes are not evident in Society's most valuable asset: Women of all ages.
ReplyDeleteThe contributions we render daily are numerous from the uneducated woman in the rural areas to the Urban executive.We are confident and determined in ensuring delivery in all we do.These contributions are ignored daily, we are not compensated in anyway rather when we strive for our rights we are termed Bossy, Bitch,Fussy, Arogant.Degoratory words that they think will affect Us.
Luckily we are the'TORCH BEARER'S' - Women leaders of YWLI ACCRA 2011.
We must enforce that which we now know; our core values:gender equality(fair representation in decison-making postions in our churches,communities & Government) ,women human rights etc.
We will achieve our goals not only by radical strike actions but by our every day practices.Practicing what we Preach; we should refuse to be marginalized by our partners,siblings, parents and religious institutions.
By simple actions such as wearing what we feel comforatble in, rather than what pleases or is accepted by People around.
I urge us all in the Spirit of Freedom and Liberation to take cognisance of what we do each and every day.We must remember that each Second counts.Every Minute or so a woman is being raped, a girl undegoes FGM or is handed over for Marriage rites, the list goes on and on.
THE TIME IS NOW!