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In the year 2000, the adult literacy rate in Ghana was only 57.9 per cent. Almost half the adults in the country couldn’t read or write. In that year, the World Bank began funding a division within Ghana’s ministry of education to provide literacy training for citizens over 15 years...
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If travelling broadens the mind, volunteer cooperation certainly forms our perceptions about humanitarian action. That is the observation I made on my trip home from Senegal. I would like to share some thoughts I jotted down in my travel diary during my trip.
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Making it easier for women to access water and land and fostering their legal, moral and economic autonomy are just some of the objectives set out by a draft protocol on equality that is mobilizing hundreds of people, mostly women, in West Africa.
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Hamidou, volunteer community organizer for the Coalition nationale de Guinée pour les droits et la citoyenneté des femmes* (CONAG-DCF), has a master’s degree in socio-cultural work.
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Caught between the weight of tradition, radicalizing Islam and Western feminism they find distasteful, Senegalese women are having a difficult time inventing a feminism in their image.
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As Beyonce sings, it “could be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare!”
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Thanks to the Gender Parity Law, adopted in 2010, Senegalese women have a legislative tool in their arsenal that should enable them take their place on the political stage - if the law is taken seriously and properly enforced.
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In December 2012, a delegation of women from West Africa came to Canada to exchange with the Conseil du statut de la femme (CSF) on the project of a “Protocol for the Equality of Rights between Women and Men, for a Sustainable Development in West Africa”.
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The following text, written by Ether Cote, Pratitioner in Collective Enterprise Development, anounces a new virtual bulletin and a new website on social economy.
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