Make Every Woman Count - Promoting the Empowerment of Women and Girls in Africa

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"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it"
Mother Theresa

Through this blog MEWC hopes to provide a platform for African women and other individuals interested in women’s rights issues in Africa to share their views and opinions on the human rights status of women in Africa.

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MEWC at the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women

This year, Make Every Woman Count attended the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), an annual conference of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) that takes place at the UN headquarters in New York. Bringing together member states, international organizations, NGOs and CSOs, the CSW and its parallel and side events included a wide range of detailed discussions and evaluations of the world's progress on gender equality.

Editorial N°2: Women's (Economic) Empowerment

Let's talk business! Entrepreneurship is one of the most prominent catchwords in the development discourse at the moment. To be a successful entrepreneur you will generally along with an idea need money, access to a market and time to realise the project. Imagine now that you do not have an income, you live in an urban area, you have an unpaid job that you cannot quit and your community is not willing to support your idea. Who might you be? A Woman!

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Editorial N°1: Empowering Women & Girls Through ICT

The ICT (Information and Communication Technology) is increasingly used across the continent to empower women. It can be a very powerful force when it is used for good purposes as much as it can for bad.

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IWD 2013: Faith and Violence in Lavender Hill Families: NWF Girls Club Poem

My Experience in Lavender Hill is so different. You fear for your life. I am so confused.

IWD 2013: None of My Business

1. The screaming pierced my heart, waking me from my sleep,’

The banging and slapping went on and I knew my neighbour was at it again

Like an ambulance siren, a cry for help went calling in the other semi-detached house

I thought for a moment, about what was happening, and then I told my self

It was none of my business.

IWD 2013: E.C.D.L Initiative Women Empowerment Scheme in Gidan Mangoro, F.C.T Abuja

Todays contribution is a set of pictures from a women's empowerment Intiative in Nigeria.

IDW 2013: Investment in Education for the Future of African Women

Sera-sera, whatever we will be, will be, the future is not for us to stay sera-sera. A musician once sang. Things are like that, we need to plan for our future. Therefore this essay will discuss some of the issues concerning the future of young women in Africa.