22 African Women Writers selected by the African Women’s Development Fund to Participate in a Creative Non Fiction Writers Workshop
The African Women’s Development Fund, (AWDF) is pleased to announce that after a competitive application process, 22 African women writers have been selected to take part in its first creative non-fiction writer’s workshop. This is the first of a series of workshops intended to give African women writers the space, […]
UN Women, Civil Society Advisory Group Joins ‘Bringbackourgirls’ Campaign
By Leocadia Bongben Cameroon United Nations Women Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women and their Civil Society Advisory Group has added their voice to the global campaign for the release of the kidnapped Chibok girls. Boko Haram, an Islamic sect preaching against western education and instilling terror in […]
Time to educate Cameroonian men about women’s rights
This article was originally published by Thomson Reuters Foundation on Fri,20 April 2012. Author: George Fominyen Men have to be involved in efforts geared at ending violence against women in Cameroon, the head of an association working with males to end violent and aggressive behavior against women, has said. […]
UN appoints first female commander of peacekeeping force
This article was originally published @ http://www.theguardian.com The first woman has been appointed to command a United Nations peacekeeping force – a Norwegian general who has served in Lebanon, the first Gulf war, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Major General Kristin Lund will replace Chinese Major General Chao Liu on 13 August […]