Peace and security crucial for Africa’s sustainable development, says Vera Songwe
Africa cannot afford the rising cost of lack of peace and security, Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA) Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe, said Monday. Speaking at the 35 Gender is my Agenda Campaign (GIMAC) pre-African Union consultative meeting, Ms. Songwe said across the continent, high-pitched volumes of guns consistently continued to silence women’s voices, depriving them of human dignity on unprecedented levels. African countries in active conflicts (Somalia, Central African Republic, Libya, Nigeria, South Sudan and Burundi) have alarming figures of rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, enforced sterilization, forced marriages and other forms of sexual violence.
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| Format: | Press release biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2020-02
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/44166 |
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