Promoting gender equality and women's empowerment in Africa : questioning the achievements and confronting the challenges ten years after Beijing
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Th is paper is the Economic Commission for Africa’s contribution to the debate
on progress made, remaining challenges and actions taken to promote gender
equality and the empowerment of women in the last decade. Th e discussion starts
from the conviction that gender equality and the empowerment of women are
both desirable and mandatory for the achievement of sustainable development.
It reviews what has been done in the decade to promote gender equality and the
empowerment of women. Th e paper acknowledges the progress made, especially
in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action but proceeds to interrogate the
adequacy of the actions taken for achieving the desirable goals of gender equality
and the empowerment of women. It highlights some good practices as well as
gender issues that remain unresolved and areas in which the situation of women
has deteriorated. Th e paper also focuses on the major crosscutting challenges that
must be seriously addressed if gender equality is to be achieved. Finally, it outlines
some of the concrete measures that have to be taken to promote gender equality
and the empowerment of women in Africa. Th ese actions were discussed and
adopted at the Seventh African Regional Conference on Women, in Addis Ababa
in October 2004.
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“United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa (2005-02). Promoting gender equality and women's empowerment in Africa : questioning the achievements and confronting the challenges ten years after Beijing. Addis Ababa :. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/10450”Collections
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