Unpaid Work: Women’s labor: Why It Must Count?
Unpaid work is the work people do without receiving any direct payment or salary. It includes essential activities that keep households, families, and even entire societies running, but are not…
Yuliia Svyrydenko: Education, Leadership, and Empowerment in a Nation Under Pressure
Leadership in times of crisis is rarely shaped overnight. In the case of Yuliia Svyrydenko, Ukraine’s Prime Minister, it is the outcome of years of education, steady public service, and…
Doha Calls for Nigeria to Rebuild Social Policy Through a Gender Lens
As world leaders and development institutions converge in Doha for the Second World Summit for Social Development (WSSD2), the message from UN Women is unmistakable: genuine social progress cannot occur…
Gender Bonds: Unlocking Women’s Economic Power in Nigeria
In Nigeria, women make up nearly half of the population but remain largely excluded from formal finance. Beatrice Eyong the UN Women Country Representative Leads the Call for Inclusive Finance…
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Ms. Sima Sami Bahous became UN Women’s third Executive Director on 30 September 2021. A champion for women and girls, gender equality, and youth empowerment, as well as a keen…
Gender Equality: The World’s Unfinished Business — and Nigeria’s Unfinished Potential
As the world races toward the 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the United Nations has sounded a clear warning: gender equality remains the world’s “unfinished business”…
The Lagos 5: And the deafening Silence
I am deeply concerned, not just by the deaths of five Lagos female political leaders which happened sequentially, but by the eerie silence and dissociation that followed it. Unlike so…
Sept 18th: Equal Pay for Equal Work Day
International pay gap day is celebrated every year on 18th September towards achieving equal pay for all women around the globe. In other not to be left behind, the sustainable…
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UN Women is the global champion for gender equality, working to develop and uphold standards and create an environment in which every woman and girl can exercise her human rights…
Gender Visibility and Women Representation in News & Media
Thirty years after the Beijing Declaration, women still remain nearly invisible in global news, making up just a tiny fraction of voices and representation. The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP)…
Africa missing in GDO
Africa is missing in the Gender Data Index Out of all 34 evaluated countries in Africa, only a few have achieved impressive performances compared to others; Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda,…
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Being Woman in Nigeria; Risky Business.
Femicide has become a common phenomenon in Nigeria with every week witnessing the story of a woman mercilessly slaughtered. Last week, the story of how Amaye was stoned to death…
Call for WRITERS
In the bid to strengthen gender advocacy, women and child rights issues, press for structural, institutional, and policy changes, www.sheroes.ng is opening up its platforms for public contributions. We are…
16 Days of Activism 2021
A violent FREE world; begins with compassion and respect. The 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children Campaign (16 Days Campaign) is a United Nations campaign…
Standing up against GSBV is a collective responsibility.
As we round up the 16 days action against GSBV, I reflect on my relationship with domestic abuse and GSBV. I have always felt domestic violence deeply because I was…
THE VIOLENCE AGAINST PERSONS PROHIBITION ACTS.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION The Violence Against persons (prohibition) Act (VAPP) was passed into law in May 2015. The Act was a result of agitations for the protection of persons against the…
Save-our-soul: sign the petition
Save-our-soul: Sign the petition.
The rape pandemic is amplified every day and yet our government and the judicial system put in little or no effort to pass the necessary actions to bring perpetrators to…
Save-our-soul: Change the narrative
When we were younger, we were told, as girls, to sit a certain way, crossing our legs, poised daintily, making sure not to take up too much space on the…
Worse than Covid19: Rape, leadership failure and institutional tolerance.
Covid19 may be the global epidemic identified by the WHO, but in some countries, it could be facing worse epidemics than the disease. The past weeks have been extremely overwhelming…
Period poverty: A challenge for Africa
More than 800 million girls and women menstruate daily around the world. Yet, all thiese while, girls are facing unnecessary adversity dureing mesnturation times. Yet, no one is talking about…
