In his column printed on March 8, Worldwide Girls’s Rights Day, Gilles Yabi, founder and government director of West Africa Assume Tank (WATHI), (www.WATHI.org/) reminds us that the difficulty of girls’s rights, equal alternatives and equal rights between ladies and boys, between women and men, is raised in a lot the identical phrases all around the planet. It warns that all over the place, reversals in public opinion, within the positions of influential political, financial and social actors, in practices and in legal guidelines are attainable at any time: there isn’t a irreversible progress. There are not any ultimate achievements.
Violence towards women and girls, inequalities in ladies’ entry to and retention in class, early marriages and pregnancies that usually result in ladies’ everlasting exclusion from training and empowerment alternatives, prohibitions on married ladies from working outdoors the house or different restrictions on their freedom of alternative of occupation, the selective and opportunistic mobilization of spiritual texts, customs and traditions to justify discrimination towards ladies, the problem of girls’s efficient participation in decision-making our bodies, are all points that stay priorities in West African international locations and much past.
Thirty years after the 1995 World Convention on Girls in Beijing, China, and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Motion by 189 international locations, West African international locations have made typically spectacular progress in decreasing discrimination towards women and girls and gender inequalities. Nonetheless, the progress made remains to be inadequate and fragile.
The important thing messages of the networks of organizations defending and selling ladies’s rights, to which WATHI totally subscribes, are clear: we should keep mobilization, work with progressive males and settle for debate with these, each ladies and men, who overtly or not defend the inequality of rights between ladies and men in our societies.
Training, tradition, analysis, awareness-raising and public debate based mostly on details, evaluation and arguments are on the coronary heart of WATHI’s mission. This March, we’re sharing on all our platforms the handfuls of interviews, reference paperwork and movies of digital roundtables that WATHI has carried out over the previous years on totally different features of gender inequality, ladies’s rights and the well-being of women and girls.
Learn the total column by Gilles Yabi in French: Link to the column
Learn the total column by Gilles Yabi in English:Link to the column
Hearken to the total column by Gilles Yabi in French: Hyperlink to the audio (https://apo-opa.co/3XXc0pM)
Additional Studying:
- Citizen Debates on Women’s Participation in Political, Economic, and Social Life in Senegal
- WATHI’s Special Booklet Published on March 8, 2022
- “La parité n’est pas l’égalité…”, Ndioro Ndiaye, ancienne ministre
- Progress, Challenges, and Threats to Human Rights Protection by African Institutions
- Interview with Soyata Maiga, Particular Rapporteur on Girls’s Rights in Africa (https://apo-opa.co/4ig5fri)
- Tamaro Touré, First Female Labor Inspector and Founder of SOS Children’s Villages Senegal
- Interview with Isis Noor Yalagi: In Daily Life in Africa, Women Are the Foundation of Society
- Interview with Dior Fall Sow, Senegal’s First Female Prosecutor
- STEM Training and Gender Equality in West Africa: Challenges and Alternatives (https://apo-opa.co/4bCWK7a)
- Interviews with 20 Senegalese Girls – WATHI Recap Video (https://apo-opa.co/4203rM6)
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of West Africa Assume Tank (WATHI).
For extra info:
Hadidjette Kangouline
Communications Officer, WATHI
Electronic mail: hadji.kangouline@wathi.org
Web site: www.WATHI.org
