CSOs to FG: Take crucial steps to protect women’s rights
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Advocacy & Lobbying
Advocacy and lobbying 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 lobbying to 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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Liberia: women demand political parties to adhere to 30 percent gender representation agreement
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Liberia: women demand political parties to adhere to 30 percent gender representation agreement
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A conglomeration of Liberian women from diverse backgrounds have called on political parties to fully implement the Memorandum of Understanding they sign with the National Elections Commission (NEC) to fully implement Section 4.5 of the Elections Law of Liberia.
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A conglomeration of Liberian women from diverse backgrounds have called on political parties to fully implement the Memorandum of Understanding they sign with the National Elections Commission (NEC) to fully implement Section 4.5 of the Elections Law of Liberia.
Ministerial list: Call for women inclusion grows louder
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July 17, 2023
Ministerial list: Call for women inclusion grows louder
As Nigerians anxiously await President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ministerial list, there is an added dimension to the discourse— the demand for gender parity in ministerial appointments.
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As Nigerians anxiously await President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ministerial list, there is an added dimension to the discourse— the demand for gender parity in ministerial appointments.
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The League of Women voters takes on the environment
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Once they won the right to vote, some women’s suffrage activists in the United States moved on to focus on how to direct this new electoral power. The League of Women Voters was established as a non-partisan association by members of the all-white National American Women Suffrage Association to throw its support behind “good government,” not just women’s issues.
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Once they won the right to vote, some women’s suffrage activists in the United States moved on to focus on how to direct this new electoral power. The League of Women Voters was established as a non-partisan association by members of the all-white National American Women Suffrage Association to throw its support behind “good government,” not just women’s issues.
Women’s interest in entering politics surged after Dobbs. So why aren’t they running?
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July 4, 2023
Women’s interest in entering politics surged after Dobbs. So why aren’t they running?
Susanna Gibson remembers where she was and what she was doing on June 24, 2022, the way some remember 9/11 or the Challenger explosion.
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Susanna Gibson remembers where she was and what she was doing on June 24, 2022, the way some remember 9/11 or the Challenger explosion.
'Rage giving' prompted by the end of Roe has dropped off, abortion access groups say
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July 3, 2023
'Rage giving' prompted by the end of Roe has dropped off, abortion access groups say
Reproductive health organizations and advocacy groups say one-time emergency grants have ended and individual and foundation giving has dropped off this year.
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Reproductive health organizations and advocacy groups say one-time emergency grants have ended and individual and foundation giving has dropped off this year.
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Nigeria, organisation advocates increased representation of women, PWDs in governance
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The Women Rights Initiative (WORI), an NGO has advocated for increased representation of women and Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in governance.
Its Executive Director, Dr Laiatu Bamaiyi, made the appeal in her Sallah message to Muslims in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday.
She appealed to President Bola Tinubu and Governor Nasir Idris of Kebbi, to appoint more women and PWDs in their administration to give them a sense of belonging.
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The Women Rights Initiative (WORI), an NGO has advocated for increased representation of women and Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in governance.
Its Executive Director, Dr Laiatu Bamaiyi, made the appeal in her Sallah message to Muslims in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday.
She appealed to President Bola Tinubu and Governor Nasir Idris of Kebbi, to appoint more women and PWDs in their administration to give them a sense of belonging.
Point/Counterpoint: women are proving to be powerful political, societal forces
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June 28, 2023
Point/Counterpoint: women are proving to be powerful political, societal forces
So many political issues, from debates over abortion and school curriculum materials to budget cuts, are framed as attacks on “women” as a group, and polls and statistics showing that women’s votes lean left are usually cited as evidence for the idea
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So many political issues, from debates over abortion and school curriculum materials to budget cuts, are framed as attacks on “women” as a group, and polls and statistics showing that women’s votes lean left are usually cited as evidence for the idea