Civil Society Celebrates Creation of Gender Equality Entity After Four Years of AdvocacyThe Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign celebrates the United Nations General Assembly resolution, agreed to on 30 June and formally adopted by the General Assembly on Friday, 2 July, to establish “UN Women”- the new gender equality entity at the UN.
This move has been sought by women’s organizations and other civil society organizations around the world since the UN established a System-Wide Coherence Panel for UN Reform in 2006.
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Julia Gillard – meet Australia’s first female PM |
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by Keris Lahiff
Julia Gillard, former deputy prime minister, has stepped up to hold the title of first female Australian Prime Minister following Kevin Rudd’s refusal to contest the leadership ballot.
Her rise to power may seem meteoric, but Gillard’s political background hasn’t been sugar and spice and all things nice. Many say, though, that Gillard is the damsel who saved the Labor Party from the distress of political oblivion.
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Women suffer the brunt of forced eviction - Kabajuni |
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An advocate on women and housing rights issues has said women and children suffer forced eviction either by individual landlords, groups or government.
"Women spend their time in slums, work, care for children and domestic chores yet are more affected by poor conditions and threats of evictions,” Ms Agnes Kabajuni said at a national training workshop for media practitioners on the effective use of the media to promote housing and land rights of women in Ghana.
It was organized by the Centre on Housing Rights and Eviction (COHRE) in partnership with Women, Media and Change (WOMEC).
About 40 participants drawn from the print and electronic media attended the workshop.
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Forced evictions impact negatively on women's rights to housing |
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By Ama A.A. Baafi and Cindy D.M. Asamoah
Women’s rights advocates have said forced evictions should be avoided as much as possible. They have urged that where they have already taken place, it is imperative that the state provides protection and fulfills the housing rights of citizens as contained in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
Ghana ' s domestic laws do not currently afford adequate protection against eviction; the government has not laid before parliament the ICESCR for domestic ratification as required by section 75 of the 1992 Constitution.
This would have provided a legal and policy framework to guide agencies, particularly state agencies in the course of their work on evictions issues.
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