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Health sector budget cuts affect women most Wednesday April 28 2021 Summary Ms Hope Twine says:  Most maternal and neo-natal deaths could be averted with timely management.  There is a notable reduction of 9.3 per cent in the health budget from Shs2.781 trillion in Financial Year 2020/2021 to Shs2.523 trillion. Advertisement While women comprise 52 per cent of Uganda’s population, a typical woman continues to grapple with critical health issues that are only slightly addressed by the current budget support to the health sector. A glance at the national budget for financial year 2021/202...

(PCW) The “MusikJuana Songwriting Contest,” organized by the Philippine Commission on Women, aims to make music as an advocacy for gender equality and women’s empowerment. Music pieces must focus on BPfA’s 12 areas of concern which are: poverty, education and training, health, violence, armed conflict, economy, power and decision-making, institutional mechanisms, human rights, media, environment, and the girl and the child. The contest is open to all Filipino composers and songwriters who currently reside in the Philippine. Each entry must be an original work of the contestant and all...

Apr 27 2021 - A renowned Pacific gender equality champion and Technical Advisor of Shifting the Power Coalition, Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, believes that gender equality is about men and women working together and this can be achieved by diversifying media content to break gender stereotypes. She highlighted this while speaking on Women and the Media, which is one of the 12 priority areas of concern in the Beijing Platform for Action (BPA) on Gender Equality. The BPA is a resolution adopted by the United Nations at the end of the Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995. The resolutio...

December 9, 2020 "The deep-set nature of gender norms explains why change is slow, and why it demands more than a few individuals changing their own attitudes and behaviour - change is needed across society." Gender norms are the implicit informal rules about appropriate behaviour for people of different genders that most people accept and follow. This report from Overseas Development Initiative (ODI)'s Advancing Learning and Innovation on Gender Norms (ALiGN) platform examines how gender norms have changed in the 25 years since the United Nations (UN)'s Beijing P...

Race to 2023: Can a Nigerian Woman Become President? Court Sentences Ghanaian Actress, Akuapem Poloo, To 3 Months Imprisonment Over Nude Photoshoot With Her Son  0 likes 0 comments By Bamikole Omishore After an article which I wrote and had published a few weeks ago “on the road to 2023”, in which I expressed disappointment at the abysmal representation of women in leadership positions in political parties and government, I was challenged by some concerned Nigerians to list...