Deadline extended for exploratory research on how emerging debates and growing practice of regulating online content might either impede or facilitate different ways women use the internet, and its impact on their sexual expression and sexualities.
This was the title of the parallel session at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York, in which the Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women! presented the following talk on 6 March.
More than 15 African Ministers from Africa are attending the Commission on the Status of Women session in New York and call for countries to take into account the unique perspective of African women.
Secrétaire d'Etat chargée des Affaires étrangères et des Droits de l'homme au ministère français des Affaires étrangères et européennes, elle était face au Conseil des droits de l'homme, cette semaine.
The campaign's aim is to call on African states to ratify international and regional women's human rights protection instruments and to respect them in law and practice.
Malgré quelques progrès dans la législation de certains Etats africains et dans la pratique, le respect effectif des droits humains des femmes est loin d’être acquis.
Women worldwide continue to be subjected to terrible violence in the private and public sphere, and our networkers in Senegal alert us to a grave situation where perpetrators of violence against women in that country believe that they can continue to offend without facing prosecution.
