women

Promoting opportunities for the emergence of the First Female Chief Judge of Osun State

Thursday, September 6th, 2012 | Tags: female, gender, judges, Nigeria, Osun state, women
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FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE: Promoting opportunities for the emergence of the First Female Chief Judge of Osun State The Nigerian Feminist Forum (NFF) calls on his Excellency, Governor Rauf Aregbesola Governor of Osun State to apply the principles of gender equality and fairness to protect women’s human rights within Osun State. Two female judges, Hon. [...]

Solidarity statement Against the Killings of Women, Children, and other Civilians in Cote d’Ivoire’ presented to Heads of States of ECOWAS 23 March 2011

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 | Tags: Civil War, Cote d'Ivoire, ECOWAS, Ivory Coast, Mediation, women
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His Excellency, President of the Authority of Heads of States and Government of the ECOWAS, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Commander in Chief of Armed Forces, Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government of the ECOWAS member states, His Excellency, the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations Distinguished Ladies [...]

3rd African Feminist Forum: Bella’s ‘story’ from the writing workshop

Friday, October 22nd, 2010 | Tags: AFF, AFF 2010, African, African Feminist Forum, bella, rape, sexual abuse, women, writing, zimbabwe
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One of the skills based workshops which took place yesterday was on ‘Writing, writing, writing’ and one of the exercises that participants took part in was a ’5 minute free non stop writing process’. As part of the learning process a number of volunteers offered to share their stories and we were all blown away. [...]