CWD urges new mechanisms, improved resources and stronger structures as 2women can no longer wait
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The 7th Session of the Committee on Women and Development (CWD) convened under the theme, “Closing Gaps, Maximizing Opportunities: Beyond Beijing + 15” ended on Friday with a call to focus on actions that will deliver maximum benefits for women from development and democracy efforts. At a press conference organized by the ECA Information and Communication Service, Souad Abdennebi-Abderrahim, Regional Women’s Rights Advisor at the African Centre for Gender and Social Development (ACGSD) underscored the urgency emerging from the CWD. “We are urging the Member States to put in place new mechanisms, improved resources and stronger structures in order to achieve gender equality on the continent. Women can no longer wait”, she said in a statement made on behalf of the ACGSD Director, Thokozile Ruzvidzo. A highlight of the four-day meeting was the need to increase efforts to combat violence against women. Florence Butegwa, the UN Women Representative to the AUC and the ECA, urged the media to support the upcoming Kilimanjaro Climb which aims to mobilize awareness for the campaign and which will take place in March 2012: “The objective is to proclaim that Violence against Women has to stop from the highest point on this continent”, she said