Gender Issues Showlist
Women, Peace & Security
UNSCR 1325 calls on all parties to: protect and respect the rights of women and girls in conflict & post-conflict; increase women participation in all conflict resolution, peacekeeping and peace-building & to end impunity by prosecuting perpetrators of sexual and other violence on women and girls
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Human Rights of Women
Thirty six years after the adoption of CEDAW, many women and girls still do not have equal opportunities to realize rights recognized by law. Women are denied the right to own property or inherit land. They face social exclusion, “honor killings”, FGM, trafficking, restricted mobility, early marriage,...
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Violence Against Women
Violence against women is the most shameful human rights violation. Gender based violence not only violates human rights, but also hampers productivity, reduces human capital and undermines economic growth. It is estimated that up to 70 per cent of women experience violence in their lifetime
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Political Participation & Leadership
Where women are fully represented, societies are more peaceful and stable. Women political participation is fundamental for gender equality and their representation in positions of leadership must be a priority for all Africans governments.
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Source: Spy Ghana Connected Development [CODE] with support from the New Venture Fund through the development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) brought together Seventeen (17) young women from different spheres of life in Abuja to build their capacities in identifying issues faced when overcoming barriers to girl child education in Nigeria.
The workshop took place from 22-23 as a step-down training of an aftermath workshop of the Women Leadership4girls' Education (WL4GE) Fellowship which Ojonwa Deborah Miachi, A World At School Global Youth Ambassador and the Policy & Advocacy Advisor of CODE is a Fellow.
The lead facilitator, Ojonwa, noted that "Female champions working passionately to reducing the barriers to girls' education came together for a two-day workshop on leadership training; technical assistance to document best practices; training on advocacy for girls' education and support to access global opportunities in girls' education. The process of advocacy and leadership was broken down to the most minimum level".
"The leadership skills of young women at the workshop interested in girls' education were developed. There was also training on advocacy techniques, networking skills and the creation of mentoring opportunities between participants and instructors to enable the young women explore numerous leadership opportunities that can build their experience and most importantly, Increase the enrollment of girls in schools", Ojonwa stated.
Agbeje Naomi, a student of City Royal International Academy stated that, "as a 12 year old girl, I now know I can take on the role of leadership at any point in my life. I have learned a lot about the challenges other girls face when trying to have access to education and from this training exercise, I know I can now contribute in doing something about it".
Hamzat Lawal, the Chief Executive of CODE stressed that this will be a beginning phase for the young women activist. "It is important for young women and girls to take leadership roles in ensuring girls have more access to education. Girls have so much potential to contribute to sustainable development and with the combined efforts of dedicated female champions, every girl can have that chance of going to school, which helps her grow into a powerful and independent person that can change the world".
"With the right tools in engaging our communities and policy makers, we would reduce numbers the out of school children and drive demand for quality education in Nigeria. This is why we shared with them our Education Budget Tracker, a web-based mobile tool with SMS integrated to track government & international aid spending as an incentive to hold government to account on providing access to quality education in Nigeria. Said, Hamzat.
At the end of the two days training, participants came to a consensus to act more on data advocacy and information for girl child education and also agreed to work together as a team to reduce all barriers to girls' education in Nigeria.