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.
A two-day national conference on Women’s Political Participation and Representation opened Monday at Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara (SDKJ) Conference Centre.
Stakeholders, women leaders and development partners have called for increased participation of women in leadership and governance
YAMBIO – The Speaker of South Sudan’s Western Equatoria State Legislative Assembly, Ann Tunna Richard, has urged women to actively participate in politics ahead of South Sudan’s December 2026 general elections.
Three decades after the Beijing Platform for Action, the groundbreaking UN declaration that affirmed that women’s rights are human rights, the global movement for gender equality and women’s empowerment is under strain.
Three decades after the Beijing Platform for Action, the groundbreaking UN declaration that affirmed that women’s rights are human rights, the global movement for gender equality and women’s empowerment is under strain.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has cautioned that Nigeria’s continued exclusion of women from political leadership positions is no longer merely a social concern but a growing threat to the nation’s competitiveness in an increasingly dynamic global land
1 in 3 women and girls have experienced intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence or both
1 in 3 women and girls have experienced intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence or both
Working in the mine action sector showed me that traditional constraints are created to be broken!” says Dina Khuder.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has intensified efforts to close the gender gap in political leadership across the subregion, with a fresh push to achieve at least 30 percent female representation in national parliaments and decision-making bodies