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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Sixth African Regional Conference on Women ended here today with a Regional Plan of Action which maps out priorities and strategies for the next five years to accelerate the implementation of the Dakar and Beijing ...

ARCC, established in 1979 by the ECA Conference of Ministers, is an intergovernmental policy-making body that focuses on the advancement of women. As such, it is the political arm of the ECA's gender program, which is ...