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 ...

African Women's NGO Forum on Beijing +10, kicking off a week of activities and meetings associated with the Seventh African Regional Conference on Women hosted by the Economic Commission for Africa. The Forum will particularly ...

The Expert Group Meeting (EGM) organized by the Land Policy Initiative (LPI) on 4 and 5 February 2015 in Entebbe, Uganda, was successful in reviewing and validating the Gender Strategy of the organization. The meeting ...

Gender based violence represents our collective guilt as countries, societies and communities says Economic Commission for Africa Southern Africa Regional Office, Director Mr Said Adejumobi. Speaking during the opening of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Conference will take stock of developments in the lives of African women since the Beijing summit on women's affairs ten years ago. In that context, it will focus on highlighting achievements, constraints and challenges ...

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 ...

Civil society organizations in Africa commended governments on the continent for the progress made in improving socio-economic conditions of Africans, but urged them to do more to enhance women’s rights in Addis Ababa, 26 ...