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By Nabil Tahir | PUBLISHED March 12, 2023 KARACHI: Everyone in this world wants to live a good life. The meaning of a good life can mean different things to different people – it is subjective and can be influenced by personal values, beliefs, and experiences. But all are in search of a better life than…
Established in 1999, the non-profit international NGO seeks to improve the living conditions of women and girls and the health of mothers and children, while recognising their right to personal integrity and freedom on a basis of social equality. The NGO has been working in communities in promoting development and cooperation on sexual and reproductive…
The visiting UN Goodwill Ambassador for Africa, Jaha Dukureh, has lauded Deputy Speaker Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa over his efforts to put an end to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Liberia. Dukureh, a survivor of FGM and child marriage, has singled out the Deputy Speaker for ‘championing’ and ‘sponsoring’ a bill to outlaw the practices…
The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Malawi, with Committee Experts commending efforts to combat human trafficking, and raising questions about access to lawyers and the definition of torture. Anna Racu, Committee Vice Chairperson and Co-Rapporteur for Malawi, said that it was positive that Malawi had adopted the Trafficking…
By IHECHINYERE CHIGEMERI-UWOM UMUAHIA- A university lecturer, Ms Akachi Nworgu-Okonji, has called for a more punitive legislative sanctions for violence and discrimination against women in the country. She said that the current provision of two years imprisonment or option of half-a-million naira fine was grossly inadequate. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nworgu-Okonji…
By Jacob Mosenda Dar es Salaam. Wahda Ally Malema was 17, broke and alone when she failed to continue with her studies in Form Two where her parents told her clearly that they did not have the ability to sponsor her education further. Without many options, she contacted her sister in Dar es Salaam who…
The Anambra State Council of Traditional Rulers has resolved to eliminate harmful traditional practices antithetical to women’s rights. On Saturday, chairman of the council, the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Achebe, made this known in a communique issued at the end of a multi- stakeholders conference on eliminating violence against women and girls in Awka, Anambra….
At just ten years old, Raihana Mirzai is already engaged to be married to a man double her age. Unsurmountable debt has led her family to see this arrangement as their only viable way to survive. One year on from the Taliban taking control in Afghanistan, she is one of the many Afghan girls who…
The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) has called on African member states to conduct a national study or assessment on harmful practices affecting children on the continent. In a concept note preceding the hosting of the Day of the African Child which falls on June 16 every…
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