Commissioner, Workers Compensation Fund Control Board, Dr Elizabeth Nkumbula receiving her award of Excellence and also for her hard work and service to the nation from Copper belt Province Minister Hon. Mwakalombe during the International Women’s Day Celebrations on March 8th, in Ndola, Zambia
Ecuador is a country straddling the equator on South America’s west coast. It is the fourth-smallest country in South America, but it’s also one of the world’s 17 megadiverse countries (this refers to any one of a group of nations that harbour the majority of Earth’s species and high numbers of endemic species).
Most politicians and their spouses only remember the less privileged when they are in the office or vying for one, and more often than not, projects to empower the less privilege end with their political tenure. Her Excellency, Mrs Eunice Ukamaka Egwu, wife of the first Executive Governor of Ebonyi State is of a different league. With an inherent desire to reach out to the needy, Mrs Eunice Egwu has been silently touching the lives of widows and the less privileged long before she became the First Lady of Ebonyi State, and is still touching the lives of these vulnerable ones, years after leaving that office. The editor of the Amazons Watch Magazine and part of her team caught up with Mrs Egwu in her Abuja office, where she gave more insight on her philanthropic pursuits, and challenges of women in leadership positions. Find Excerpts from the interview below;
The Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) has called out the Morrison government for failing to sign on to a United Nations International Women’s Day statement calling for better abortion access for women. The motion was proposed by Finland and Mexico and broadly called for greater accountability for human rights violations against women and girls. The statement proposed greater implementation of ‘policies and legislation that respect women and girls’ right to bodily autonomy’. This included guaranteed universal protection of women’s sexual and reproductive health, comprehensive sexuality education and access to safe abortion. The HRLC says Australia was not one of the 57 countries who signed on. The centre’s Legal Director Edwina MacDonald was at the session in Geneva. She’s called the decision ‘extremely disappointing’. No government can truly support gender equality and human rights without supporting access to safe abortions and reproductive rights. Australia was elected to a seat on the UN Human Rights Council in…
According to Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula the national defence force today has six female major generals and 46 women in the rank of brigadier general. Speaking at an International Women’s Day event at AFB Zwartkop, where she interacted with mainly junior female officers from the four services, the Minister highlighted the achievement of 7 SA Infantry Battalion’s Lieutenant Colonel Tiisetso Sekgobela. She is currently commander of the South African battalion of the Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) attached to the UN MONUSCO mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mapisa-Nqakula said the advancement in terms of female flag and general officers in 22 years was good but more needed to be done to ensure “our armed forces are fully representative of the men and women of South Africa and reflect the demographics”. Twenty-two years ago there was a lone female major general in the SA National Defence Force…
Indonesian voters have yet to directly elect a female president, but more high-profile women than ever are leading parties and running for office as the political ground shifts in the world’s third-largest democracy. Megawati Soekarnoputri, the daughter of Indonesia’s founder, chief of the country’s largest political party and former president (she was appointed), remains the most influential politician. Her move to veto President Joko Widodo’s first choice of a running mate underscored her stature as the kingmaker. There are also two of former dictator Suharto’s daughters and the daughter of former president Abdurrahman Wahid wielding considerable political clout in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation. While incumbent Widodo is pitching for better representation of women in politics — he has eight females in his cabinet holding important ministries such as a finance and foreign — his challenger Prabowo Subianto says he believes more in output than tokenism. With women marginally outnumbering…
Women spend 90 percent of their income on their families, economy and education, hence the increase in the number of women entrepreneurs contributing to the social development of the country, according to Turkey’s Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan. “We need to produce more technology and innovative projects,” Pekcan said on March 9 at an event in the southern province of Antalya. “We have young women working as engineers, software designers, and graphic designers. We need to direct them, use our resources correctly. We need more female entrepreneurs both for Turkey and to give the women their desired place in society.” The minister pointed out that female entrepreneurship in Turkey has increased to 34 percent from 23 percent over the last 10 years. “Indeed, the momentum has been growing rapidly in the last 10 years, but still the OECD average is 51.3 percent. It’s far behind,” said Pekcan. “I see this as…
