Archive for year: 2022

Story on key challenges facing the Ministry for Gender, Children and Social Protection in 2021:

http://democracyinafrica.org/iwd-can-ghanas-government-deliver-gender-equality-without-a-majority/

Story on local government, cancelled referendum (2019), and political participation of women in Ghana:

http://democracyinafrica.org/ghana-isnt-referendum-week/

Story on Affirmative Action in Ghana:

http://democracyinafrica.org/international-womens-day-happening-affirmative-action-ghana/

Story on the CEDAW:

http://democracyinafrica.org/marking-40-years-since-anniversary-convention-elimination-forms-discrimination-women/

Story on Dr. Esther Ocloo and the Women’s World Banking initiative:

http://www.cihablog.com/esther-ocloo-a-pioneer-of-microcredit-for-women-in-ghana-and-the-world/

Story on Justice Annie Jiagge

https://blog.bham.ac.uk/archiveofactivism/2019/07/23/womens-rights-as-international-human-rights-justice-annie-jiagge-of-ghana/

Acknowledgements

The When Women Speak film was produced under the British Academy Sustainable Development Programme, which was supported by the UK government’s Global Challenges Research Fund. Additional contributions were made by the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, and the Institute for Global Innovation at the University of Birmingham. The training packages were produced under an Arts and Humanities Research Council Impact Acceleration Award from the University of Bristol, in collaboration with Abantu-for-Development.