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The Role of Women Leaders in Ending Child Marriage

Today in most developing countries, there is a conscious effort towards curbing child marriage. As world leaders seek workable methods to bring this practice to an end, women in government and top executive positions have a role to play in ensuring that children are safe and have a secure future. Choosing who to marry and when to marry are parts of the fundamental rights in the life of any human being. Considering the importance of this activity(marriage), it must of necessity be done with full consciousness ̶ with the individual fully aware of the import of such a decision. A few days ago, news making the rounds was the completion of the drafting of the bill that will put an end to child marriage in the country of Zimbabwe. Not only is it heartwarming that the outlawing of this age-long practice that has held so many countries spellbound is near…

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Happenings

Kenyan Campaigners Encourage Land Rights for Rural Women

Campaigners during the International Day of Rural Women which held recently in Kenya, have said a new legislation should be enacted to eliminate institutional and cultural barriers that have denied rural women access to arable land. Naomi Lanoi, a gender rights campaigner with Kenya Land Alliance, said expanding access to land among rural women is key to tackling abject poverty and food insecurity in the country. “Rural women are intimately linked to land and their exclusion from access and ownership of this resource will negatively affect the production of staple food in the country,” said Lanoi in a commentary published by Sunday Nation. Kenyan campaigners marked the day of rural women with a call for enactment of global and domestic legal instruments that root for gender equality in land ownership. Lanoi regretted that despite the enactment of affirmative action policies and laws, Kenya is yet to bridge a glaring disparity…

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Women & SDG

The Role of Financial Institutions in Women-Owned Small Businesses By: Miracle Nwankwo

In recent times, the emergence of female-owned small businesses around the world have exceeded its record of the past, this is largely dependent on the fact that each day, women develop unique ideas and business strategies towards improving their lives and participating in the global economic development. Research has shown that female-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make up to 30 percent to 37 percent of all SMEs (8 million to 10 million women-owned firms) in the emerging markets. This result does not exclude the rural women in developing countries. However, these women and their businesses are faced with a general challenge which has to do with finance. Due to several issues ranging from collateral, trust, and so on, women entrepreneurs face difficulties in obtaining bank credit compared to men. This limitation has crippled the general access to finance majorly for the women entrepreneurs in rural areas. In India, several…

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