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Leading gender experts to review Africa's progress since Beijing
(1999-11)
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 ...
African women's NGOS take stock ten years after Beijing conference
(2004-10)
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 ...
African ministers expected to renew pledge for the advancement of women
(2004-10)
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 ...
East African experts to meet on legal impediments to women's advancement
(1997-10)
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 ...
West Africa sub-regional review of Government implementation of the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for action
(1997-11)
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 ...
ECA gender policy under the spotlight this week
(1997-04)
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 ...
Beijing + 10: with specific reference to North Africa
(2004-08)
The Sub regional Office for North Africa (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa) is organizing a meeting on "The ten-year evaluation of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action on the Advancement of ...
Women's rights to land must be strengthened: African parliamentarians
(2016-03)
The Land Policy Initiative (LPI) participated in a workshop organized by the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) on the theme “Strengthening women’s rights to land access: a parliamentarian response to close gender gap for economic ...
GIMAC Conference 'charting Africa's future the role of women in the African renaissance ': keynote Address by Carlos Lopes UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ECA
(2013-05)
The celebration of fifty years of Pan Africanism will not be complete without paying glowing tribute to the role played by our ‘foremothers’ and forecasters in the liberation struggle. The Pan African Women’s Organization ...
Beijing +10: ECA to Organize Sub-regional Meetings to Review Progress Made
(2004-07)
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), through its African centre for Gender and Development (ACGD) and its various sub regional development centers, is organizing a series of meetings within the context of the ten-year ...