Millennium Campaign North America Coordinator Calls on Governments to Keep Promises to Women
Millennium Development Goals Will Not be Met Unless and Until Women’s Rights, Empowerment and Development are Achieved
On International Women’s Day, Campaign calls on governments to take immediate action to curb maternal mortality and ensure girls and women have access to education, meaningful employment and political participation
March 6, 2009 –“I have been campaigning on the issue of maternal mortality for quite some time now. But last week, it hit me directly: My sister, Asmau, age 33, died in Nigeria, two hours after delivering her second child, a boy who she never held. Asmau was not an illiterate woman. She was a senior science teacher, and her husband is a college principal.
GCAP campaigning to achieve gender equity
GCAP Partners from around the world have been campaigning to achieve equality and end poverty. This slideshow portrays some of that work.
Ana Agostino - The Importance of Women in Ending Poverty
Ana Agostino is Co-Chair of GCAP and the facilitator for the Feminist
Task Force (FTF) . This year the FTF use the International Women’s Day
to highlight the centrality of gender equality to end poverty and the
importance of investing in women and girls. They are also calling for
financing of gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Bharati Silawal-Giri: Gender and Development Adviser at UNDP
Bharati Silawal-Giri talks about the importance of women in eradicating poverty on the occasion of International Women’s Day
