PAP WOMEN CAUCUS CALL ON AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS TO PRIORITIZE GENDER MAINSTREAMING The Gender Caucus of the Pan-African Parliament has called on African governments and Parliaments to give priority in their national strategies to the development of national action plans that address women empowerment and violence against women. In a fourteen points recommendation adopted at […]
LET’S MOVE BEYOND THE RHETORICS OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT – CHIEF CHARUMBIRA The President of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), His Excellency Chief Fortune Charumbira, has urged women’s groups to move beyond the rhetorics of gender empowerment and be pragmatic on the actions that need to be taken to empower women. Speaking at the 13th Pan-African Parliament Conference […]
Representation of women in the National Assembly; Benin in a good dynamic Benin, which has never had more than 8% of women parliamentarians, will now have a minimum of 27% of seats reserved for women in the upcoming parliamentary elections on 8 January 2023. This according to Mr. Dakpè Sossou, the second vice-president of […]