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| Nigerian Women and Nigeria's abysmal program on the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) |
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The preponderance of feminist CSOs and activists across the country has neither translated into improved living conditions for the rural women nor has it addressed firmly, the utter neglect and deplorable plight of the Nigerian woman in the village. Instead of concentrating energies on addressing the imbalances of the typical Nigerian woman, these elite organisations dwell more on self-serving actions aimed at launching them to national prominence, thereby cornering juicy positions for themselves and their cronies, in the name of activating the 30 per cent Beijing Afirmative Action, all at the expense of the rural Nigerian woman. For them, the MDG 3 of promoting gender equality and empowering women can only be achieved through the reservation of political positions for elite women, who will in turn use same to oppress the rural woman at will.
Buoyed by the ascendance of the likes of Ellen Johnson Sir-leaf, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Angela Merkel, Dr. Akunyili, Hillary Clinton, and Oby Ezekwesili in their chosen fields of endeavour, they hasten to forget that extreme poverty, hunger, high child mortality rate and poor maternal health can only be combated through a combination of advocacy, technical assistance, funding and working directly with community-based organisations and families themselves to ensure that households have access to education, clean, secure supply of water and safe and convenient sanitary and health facilities. These actions directly support MDG 7 – improving access for all those who desperately need these basic facilities.
For their own part, Nigerian men should also note that while most of the MDGs face a deadline of 2015, the gender parity target was set to be achieved a full ten years earlier, an acknowledgement that equal access to education is the foundation for all other development goals. Until equal numbers of girls and boys are in school, it will be impossible to build the knowledge necessary to eradicate poverty and hunger, combat disease and ensure environmental sustainability. There is therefore no basis for competition or subjugation of one gender by the other as we march towards 2015. It is time to put an end to gender inequality and all its concomitant effects on our country’s future.
The survival of liberty and prosperity in our country increasingly depends on the liberty of our women and the best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of the frontiers of liberty for our women. This can be validated in the story of the American automobile guru, Henry Ford, who died and went to heaven. Upon his arrival, he immediately went to God and asked him "when you invented woman, what were you thinking? God asked, "what do you mean?" "well" he says, "you have some major designs flaws in your invention, there is too much front-end protrusion, it chatters away too much at high speeds, maintenance is extremely high, it constantly needs repainting and refurbishing, it is out of commission at least 5 or 6 of every 28 days, the rear-end wobbles too much, intake is placed too close to the exhaust, the headlights are usually small, fuel consumption is outrageous, just to mention a few." "Hmm" replies God, "hold on a minute", God goes over to his celestial supercomputer, types in a few keystrokes and waits for the results. In no time, the computer prints out a report and God read it. He then turned to Ford and said, "It may be that my invention is flawed, but according to these statistics, more men are riding my invention than yours." God is of course quite right. After all, there are more women than cars in the world.
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حقوق المراة في العراق نجم عبد ضيدان | Nov 24th, 2007
نود اعلامكم بانه لحد الان لايوجد لحقوق للمراة. علما بانه توجد كثير من المنظمات المجتمع المدني النسوية وهذه المنظمات لاتثقف بطريقة صحيحة وانما مجرد اخذ المنح وعدم ايصال صوت المراة المظلومة في العراق وهذا بسبب المانح نفسه لاتوجد الية صحيحة لاختيار المنظمات
راجين من كل الاخيار المساعدة في هذا الجانب
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