Malawi’s First Lady Monica Chakwera has said it is time to end gender inequality is now by put women at the centre of development in the country. Speaking at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe on Wednesday when she closed a three-day 2021 virtual African Gender Equality Conference (AGEC) 2021, Chakwera said violence against women across Africa […]
This week, UN Women has been supporting their implementing partners in Dedza and Salima to strengthen safe spaces for girls and child marriage survivors in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Under the Elimination of Gender Based Violence thematic pillar UN Women has supported a total of 13,450 girls child marriage survivors in 10 districts with […]
UN Women have expressed concern that a lot more men seem to have died in the country from Covid-19, perhaps because of their poor health seeking behaviors. Country Representative for UN Women in Malawi, Clara Anyangwe made the remarks Wednesday during the Ministerial Stakeholders Stocktaking meeting on implementation of gender related interventions in the context […]
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has asked United Nations (UN) to remove President Peter Mutharika as an ambassador for HeForShe Global campaign for insulting remarks he made against former president Joyce Banda. The firebrand organization has also demanded that President Mutharika should apologise to Malawians, especially women and girls. President Mutharika in an apparent response […]
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) has Country Representative, Clara Anyangwe, has lamented poor representation of female employees in decision-making positions in the Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services. She has since challenged the department to empower female employees to enable them take an active role in decision-making […]
Old habits die hard, so they say. But not with UN Women Malawi an organisation under United Nations which has promised to do all it can through Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) in Karonga district to end some old cultural norms and traditions that prevent both girls and women to achieve tangible goals […]
The Executive Board of United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women says it is impressed with women economic empowerment and gender projects supported by United Nations in the country. The delegation concluded its Malawi visit with a press briefing on Thursday. Addressing the media in Lilongwe, UN Women Executive Board President representing […]
President Professor Peter Mutharika has reiterated his government’s commitment towards the advancement of gender equality and women empowerment in the country. Mutharika made this remarks on Monday at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre when he had an audience with the UN Women Executive Board who are in the country to observe and assess how UN organisations […]
The Minister for Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Jean Kalirani has said Malawi has done very well in economic empowerment of women especially in the work sector at the continental level. Kalirani made the remarks during a side event organized by the Malawi Government in conjunction with UN Women on the margins of the Commission on the Status of Women 61 (CSW61) in […]
While some Malawian social and legal commentators have faulted President Peter Mutharika for ordering the arrest the self-confessed sex predator r Eric Aniva ‘’the Hyna’’, the UN Women, an agency of the United Nations in New York has issued statement in support of the President’s action describing it as a demonstration of strong commitment towards […]