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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...