This press release focuses on the fourth world conference on women Beijing, China 4-15 September 1995 conference to set women’s agenda into next century. The conference will focus on persistent problems common to women ...

ECA and World Bank representatives met with Ministers of Justice, women lawyers, gender focal points from U.N. agencies and civil society representatives from East Africa. The conference, the first in a series of sub ...

African women leaders and gender specialists from government departments will meet in Dakar, Senegal from 25to 27 November 1997. The West African sub-regional Preparatory Meeting will be convened by the African Centre for ...

The adolescent girl child is defined as a girl between the ages of 10 and 15, and is one of the 12 critical areas of concern in the Beijing Platform for Action, adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. The ...

This statement addressed by the Secretary-General to the joint meeting of the group on equal rights for women in the United Nations and the women’s Environment and Development Organization on the occasion of International ...

The country calls for the establishment of small and medium scale industries, as well as technical and vocational training for women and girls. The country has already drafted a law to strengthen women, most of whom have ...

Ministers of Justice, gender focal points from U.N. agencies including civil society representatives from Eastern Africa are scheduled to hold a 3-day conference here next week to deliberate issues that impede the advancement ...

The Sixth African Regional Conference on Women, organized by the African Centre for Women (ACW) of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), comes five years after the adoption of the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action ...

Women Leaders from East Africa will gather at the Hotel Impala in Arusha Tanzania to attend a Symposium on Capacity for Gender Initiatives and Sub-regional Co-operation organized by The East African Sub - regional Development ...

An expert group meeting on gender networking at sub regional level in Africa focusing on women and decision-making and the economic empowerment of women through the promotion of their legal and human rights is to take place ...