She probably won't become a second
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberian president and first woman in Africa to be elected in this office, has a lot more international experience to begin with. Nevertheless Malinese
Sidibé Aminata Diallo will make history. On Sunday she will be the first woman running for president in the history of the West-African country. A candidate for an environmental party, she doesn't stand a chance, but women's organisations hope she'll make way for other female candidates in the future.
African women should get more involved in science and technical professions, according to Unesco. The UN-organisation for education, science and culture wants girls on the continent to take an in interest in a career in science or technique.
Claudia Harvey of Unesco in Namibia declared this
last week at a training for girls in science in the Namibian capital of Windhoek. The aim fits right into number three of the
Millennium Goals: putting an end to gender differences in primary and secundary education. Whether this target - that western countries don't even manage to realize - will be reached by 2015, remains to be seen.
Women in Uganda will no longer be punished by law when they cheat on their husbands. Before it was a crime for a married woman to have sex outside wedlock. If caught, they could be fined or thrown in jail. This did not apply for the men in the East-African country. The Ugandan Constitutional Court declared this week that this
provision was discriminatory for women and declared the law unconstitutional. Will the law that criminalises homosexual acts be next? This one only applies to men. Lesbians apparently are an inconceivable phenomenon in Uganda.
She probably won't become a second Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberian president and first woman in Africa to be elected in this office, has a lot more international experience to begin with. Nevertheless Malinese Sidibé Aminata Diallo will make history. On Sunday she will be the first woman running for president in the history of the West-African country. A candidate for an environmental party, she doesn't stand a chance, but women's organisations hope she'll make way for other female candidates in the future.
African women should get more involved in science and technical professions, according to Unesco. The UN-organisation for education, science and culture wants girls on the continent to take an in interest in a career in science or technique. Claudia Harvey of Unesco in Namibia declared this last week at a training for girls in science in the Namibian capital of Windhoek. The aim fits right into number three of the Millennium Goals: putting an end to gender differences in primary and secundary education. Whether this target - that western countries don't even manage to realize - will be reached by 2015, remains to be seen.
Women in Uganda will no longer be punished by law when they cheat on their husbands. Before it was a crime for a married woman to have sex outside wedlock. If caught, they could be fined or thrown in jail. This did not apply for the men in the East-African country. The Ugandan Constitutional Court declared this week that this provision was discriminatory for women and declared the law unconstitutional. Will the law that criminalises homosexual acts be next? This one only applies to men. Lesbians apparently are an inconceivable phenomenon in Uganda.
