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Advocacy & Development

Advocacy and development are effective tools for gender advocates, male champions, civil society, and other stakeholders to hold leaders accountable to their commitments on concrete, measurable actions that guarantee women can fully and equally enjoy their rights. These include the ability to exercise freedom and choices, go to school, live free from violence, earn equal pay for equal work, and meaningfully engage in decision-making and political processes. Advocacy groups can collectively put pressure their leaders for legislative reforms to protect and promote women’s rights and concerns, which may require coalition-building, fundraising, civic education, awareness-raising and consensus-building on key issue platforms. Influencing legislation itself may require convince policy makers and legislators to address specific issues relevant to gender equality and women’s empowerment, which may involve introducing or revising legislation and policy.

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Nigeria women
March 30, 2017
She Forum Africa urges more participation of women in Nigerian politics

The Founder of ‘She Forum Africa’,

March 20, 2017
Resilience of Women’s Empowerment 2017

By iKNOW Politics Expert

March 13, 2017
Mauritian women MPs work to raise awareness on gender violence

A group of women 12 MPs from the Ré

March 2, 2017
Philippines: The Commission on Elections to hold special voters’ registration for women and girls on 8 March

MANILA — The Commission on Election

March 1, 2017
“In too many countries laws still discriminate against women”

As countries start implementing the Sustainable Development Goals towards achieving a sustainable and gender equal future by 2030, discriminatory laws continue t

Roadmap
February 16, 2017
Launch of "The Roadmap for Substantive Equality: 2030" by UN Women, IPU, and Equality Now

A new partnership focused on reforming gender-discriminato