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THE STANDARD By Rading Biko | March 7th 2021 at 06:50:00 GMT +0300 From L-R:Rose Kerubo, Idah Kwamboka and Clara Moraa during a class session.(Rading Biko,Standard) Two decades ago, women in Africa had reasons to expect change following a much-heralded 1995 Beijing Declaration – a global conference that set ambitious targets to transform the lives of women across the world. Global leaders universally adopted the Beijing Declaration and Platform for the empowerment of women and girls. It is now 21 years since global leaders committed to uplifting the status of women around the world, yet m...

Towards Implementation of Women’s Rights in the Colombian Final Peace Accord: Progress, opportunities and challenges Format Executive summary 2020 marks the fourth year of implementation of the Colombian Final Accord, the 20th anniversary of the signing of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, and 25 years since the Beijing Platform for Action. This report considers the gender commitments located in the text of the Final Accord as identified by the Kroc Institute, their implementation progress, opportunities and challenges. The report reflects upon the additional challenges in the face of th...

For more than 100 years, International Women’s Day has been celebrated on 8 March. The origins of this event lie in women mobilising against their oppression and against inequality. The day is used to highlight and celebrate the achievement of women across all sectors of development, raise awareness of the importance of women’s equality in the domestic and public spheres, and advocate increasing gender parity. The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is “Choose to Challenge” (#ChooseToChallenge). This is not only a day for women, but for every person to challenge the op...

The following opinion piece is part of series to mark the upcoming International Women’s Day, March 8. UN Women China Qinghai programme beneficiaries. Credit: UN Women BEIJING, Mar 6 2021 (IPS) - Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), and the theme for this year’s celebration is “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world.” We recognize the tremendous contribution and leadership demonstrated by women and girls around the world in shaping our recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and a more sustainable future. A global review of the progress achieved toward...

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