{"id":1256,"date":"2019-09-29T15:26:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T15:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/gambia\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2019-09-29T15:26:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T15:26:06","slug":"first-lady-barrow-other-african-first-ladies-reiterate-call-for-gender-equality-and-women-empowerment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-lady-barrow-other-african-first-ladies-reiterate-call-for-gender-equality-and-women-empowerment-2","title":{"rendered":"FIRST LADY BARROW, OTHER AFRICAN FIRST LADIES REITERATE CALL FOR GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First Lady Barrow, Other African First Ladies reiterate call for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment<\/p>\n

Her Excellency, Fatoumatta Bah Barrow and her fellow African First Ladies of the Organisation of African First Ladies \u2013 OAFLAD came up with a resolution renewing their call for Gender Equality and Women\u2019s Empowerment in Africa on the margins of the 74th United Nations General Assembly in New York.<\/p>\n

OAFLAD concluded that investing in women and girls will yield high returns for\u00a0poverty eradication, economic growth, and quite key to realizing a future of sustainable development.<\/p>\n

They recognized that women in Africa remain the majority of the poor, the dispossessed, the landless, the unemployed, and those working in the informal sector.<\/p>\n

The African First Ladies also expressed concerned that, whilst gender parity at the primary education level is closed to being achieved, at the secondary level, the gap is wider, stating that \u201cAfrican women and girls participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects at secondary and tertiary level remains minimal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now Read This:\u00a0\u00a0You do not have to buy a Tobaski Ram\u00a0?\u00a0or new clothes if you can\u2019t afford them, it is NOT compulsory. – Fatu Camara<\/p>\n

The OAFLAD called upon all member-states of the African Union, the Heads of State, leaders at community and institutional levels and all stakeholders to honour the commitments made at the Global, Continental and national levels to ensure Gender Equality and Women\u2019s Empowerment a reality in our communities.<\/p>\n

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  First Lady Barrow, Other African First Ladies reiterate call for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Her Excellency, Fatoumatta Bah Barrow and her fellow African First Ladies of the Organisation of African First Ladies \u2013 OAFLAD came up with a resolution renewing their call for Gender Equality and Women\u2019s Empowerment in Africa on the margins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8],"tags":[792,237],"class_list":{"0":"post-1256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","11":"tag-gambia-news"},"yoast_head":"\nFIRST LADY BARROW, OTHER AFRICAN FIRST LADIES REITERATE CALL FOR GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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