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At the 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council, in October 2021, the Council established a special procedure on Burundi. The new Special Rapporteur mandate includes critical monitoring, reporting, and technical advice components.
CSOs Must Work With MPs To Increase Gender Legislation
Madam Esther Tawiah, Executive Director, Gender Centre for Empowering Development (GenCed), has advised gender-based Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to strengthen their relations with female Members of Parliament (MPs) to enhance gender equality policies and legislation. She explained that gender issues were cross-cutting and as such there was the need to…
The unanimous call by teeming Tescon women Commissioners, Regional and Constituency Women Organizers and NPP serial callers for the appointment of Mimi Duah to deputies Hon Kate Gyemfuah to steer the affairs of the party's women wing is on course. This vibrant mother of one is a promising young woman…
Cases of child sexual abuse appear to be under-reported considering the number of girls between the ages of 12 and 16 years who get pregnant, as shown in the statistics of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU). According to the Criminal Offences Act 1960 (Act 29) Section 101…