EDITORIAL:
On May 26^th Make Every Woman Count launched the first set of a series of workshops between May - September 2012 designed to empower Diaspora African women to play a stronger role as decision-makers in community development and to participate in all areas of social, political and economic development.The workshop opened by the Founder and executive director of Make Every Woman Count Ms. Rainatou Sow. Ms. Marie Claire and Ms. Sow critically discussed how violence against women is perpetuated at all levels of society from the individual level to the state level, through traditional, cultural, economic, social and institutional mechanisms. Read more...