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Campaigning to end violence against women
and girls
UN Women supports countries in West and Central
Africa to take momentous strides towards the
elimination of Gender based violence by successfully
implementing and adopting historic legislation that
aims to combat violence against women. In 2019,
women parliamentarians in Senegal, with the support
of UN Women and other civil society actors, passed
new legislation bringing in harsher punishments for
rapists and pedophiles, with prison terms ranging from
10 years to life imprisonment.
Economic empowerment of rural women
UN Women is building a stronger ecosystem for
women agri-entrepreneurs, including through
institutional strengthening of more than 400,000
women in Senegal, Mali, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire and
Nigeria.
To know more about our work,
visit our website:
africa.unwomen.org
Supporting women’s leadership in peace processes
in the Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin
A strong movement of women to end conflict in
the Sahel and in the Lake Chad Basin is being built
through a women’s regional advocacy platform. Over
6,000 women now have the skills to actively engage
in preventing community conflicts and over 8,000
security personnel were trained on protecting women
from G BV in conflict.
Increasing women’s political participation
Political participation of both women and girls ranks
high on UN Women’s agenda. As of December 2019,
women accounted for 15 per cent of Members of
Parliament in West and Central Africa, and UN Women
works relentlessly to significantly increase women’s
participation in upcoming elections.
In West and Central Africa, 10 out of 12 countries now
have electoral quota laws and several million women
were made aware of various aspects of the electoral
process.
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on social media:
@unwomenafrica
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