In the face of attacks of boorishness and malevolence, the fight for women’s rights continues
Gilles Yabi, founder and executive director of the West African Think Tank (WATHI), in a column released on March 8, (www.wathi.org/) reminds us that the issues of women’s rights, equal opportunities and equal rights are roughly the same throughout the earth. It warns that at any time, economic and social actors can reverse in practice and law, in public opinion, at any time: there is no irreversible progress. No final achievement.
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Three decades after the Women’s Congress in Beijing, China in 1995 and the 189 countries adopted the Beijing Declaration and Action Platform, West African countries sometimes made spectacular progress in reducing discrimination against girls and women and gender inequality. However, progress has remained insufficient and fragile.
The key message of the network of organizations that defend and promote women’s rights (full recognition by Wathi) is clear: we must maintain mobilization, work with progressive men and accept debates with men and women who are socially openly or not defending inequality of men and women’s rights.
Education, culture, research, awareness-raising and public debate based on facts, analysis and arguments is at the heart of Wathi’s mission. In March this year, we will share dozens of interviews, reference documents and videos on all platforms that Wathi has conducted over the past few years on different aspects of gender inequality, women’s rights, and girls and women’s well-being.
Read the full column of French Gilles Yabi: Link to columns
Read Gilles Yabi’s full column:Link to columns
The complete column of Gilles Yabi who listens to French: Link to audio (https://apo-opa.co/3xxc0pm)
Further reading:
- Citizen debate on women’s participation in political, economic and social life in Senegal
- Wathi’s special brochure was published on March 8, 2022
- “Equality is not equality…”
- Progress, challenges and threats to human rights protection in African institutions
- Interview with Soyata Maiga, Special Rapporteur on Women’s Rights in Africa (https://apo-opa.co/4ig5fri)
- Tamaro Touré, the first female labor inspector, founder of SOS Children’s Village Senegal
- Interview with ISIS Noor Yalagi: Women are the foundation of society in everyday life in Africa
- Interview with Dior Fall Sow, the first female prosecutor in Senegal
- STEM education and gender equality in West Africa: Challenges and Opportunities (https://apo-opa.co/4bcwk7a)
- Interview with 20 Senegalese women – Wathi review video (https://apo-opa.co/4203RM6)
Distributed by Apo Group on behalf of the West African Think Tank (Wathi).
For more information:
Hadidjette Kangouline
Wathi Communication Officer
e-mail: hadji.kangouline@wathi.org
website: www.wathi.org
