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Learning Journey: Seeing Rosaria Memorial Trust reignited my dream

Learning Journey: Seeing Rosaria Memorial Trust reignited my dream

“It’s never too late to have a life you love. Don’t ever feel like you’ve missed the boat, don’t have what it takes or can’t achieve your dreams. Instead of […]

April 3, 2020 Themes: Gender equality Programs: GL Commentary Service | News

Learning Journey: The work done is but in the ground…

Learning Journey: The work done is but in the ground…

“Success is always the outcome of walking the talk” ~ Edmond Mbiaka This past December the Kingdom of Eswatini experienced very high temperatures and my home area being in an […]

March 26, 2020 Themes: Gender equality Programs: GL Commentary Service

Learning Journey: Still learning and growing

Learning Journey: Still learning and growing

“Education without application is just entertainment.”- Tim Sanders One day at a time, one step at a time is how I take my life (as if I was going to […]

March 25, 2020 Themes: Gender equality Programs: GL Commentary Service

Learning Journey: Sheistah Bundhoo

Learning Journey: Sheistah Bundhoo

“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness” […]

March 25, 2020 Themes: Gender equality Programs: GL Commentary Service

Learning Journey: Set your mark high

Learning Journey: Set your mark high

“Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by […]

March 25, 2020 Themes: Gender equality Programs: GL Commentary Service

Learning Journey: Persevering through it all

Learning Journey: Persevering through it all

 “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele. I started work […]

March 25, 2020 Themes: Gender equality Programs: GL Commentary Service

Learning Journey: Anushka Virahsawmy

Learning Journey: Anushka Virahsawmy

“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.”  Gever Tulley I can’t believe this my seventh year with Gender Links. 2019 has […]

March 25, 2020 Themes: Gender equality Programs: GL Commentary Service

CSW59: Sex education-a lifesaving concern

CSW59: Sex education-a lifesaving concern

New York, 10 March: At a high level session on the first day of the Commission on the Status of Women yesterday, delegates gathered to highlight the critical need for Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) at all levels of public life. Kate Gilmore of UNFPA, emphasised the need for a stand-alone target and indicator for sex education in the post 2015 development framework

CSW59: Strengthening and being strengthened by the SDGs

CSW59: Strengthening and being strengthened by the SDGs

New York, 11 March: Last night, under the theme voice, choice and control, Gender links and the SADC Gender Protocol Alliance hosted a side event at CSW 59 called “Strengthening and being strengthened by the sustainable development goals.” Key note speaker, Gender Links CEO- Colleen Lowe Morna explained how the work of the SADC region in advancing gender equality, can be both emulated in and strengthened by the post 2015 development agenda.

CSW59: Women and ICTs are here to stay!

CSW59: Women and ICTs are here to stay!

New York, 10 March: On day one of the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women held at the United Nations yesterday, the Association of Progressive Communications hosted a high level meeting with various delegates to discuss the reprioritisation of Section J of the Beijing platform for Action, which has received inadequate attention since 1995. In the current draft Sustainable Development Goals, gender in the media and ICTs are missing, which is a major concern for gender equality, considering access to media and ICTs are crucial for empowerment.

CSW59: Gender inequality and climate change- a double injustice

CSW59: Gender inequality and climate change- a double injustice

New York, 11 March: At a CSW59 session on climate justice and gender equality held yesterday at the United Nations, delegates discussed the ongoing need for gender responsive and people-centered climate agreement to be mainstreamed in COP21 and the post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals.

CSW59: Young women crucial for gender equality fight

CSW59: Young women crucial for gender equality fight

New York, 12 March: For the 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, it seems as though the United Nations has heeded the call, “Nothing about us without us.” For the first time in its history, this year’s session has recorded the highest number of youth participating at the meeting and a record 8600 civil society activists have signed up to attend this year’s CSW