About the competition
UN Women together with the European Commission, Belgium, France, Mexico, as well as in partnership with Cartooning for Peace is organizing a global comic and cartoon competition to mark the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which set out how to remove the systemic barriers that hold women back from equal participation in all areas of life. The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is a visionary agenda for the empowerment of women and girls, everywhere.
To commemorate this anniversary, UN Women has launched the multigenerational campaign, “Generation Equality: Realizing women’s rights for an equal future”, and will be convening a global gathering for gender equality, the Generation Equality Forum, co-chaired by the Governments of France and Mexico, with the leadership and partnership of civil society. The Forum will kick-off in Mexico City at the end of March 2021 and culminate in Paris, France, in
The Centre for Posterity Interest Organisation (COPIO), an alliance of rural community women, Monday called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to appoint more women into leadership positions in his second term of governance.
Poor women empowerment and participation in governance, according to the NGO, remain a huge national challenge that threatens Ghana’s fledgeling democracy.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Techiman in the Bono East Region, Mr Mustapha Maison Yeboah, Chief Executive Officer of COPIO, congratulated President Akufo-Addo on his re-election.
He also commended Ghanaians for embracing and helping to consolidate the gains of the nation’s multi-party democracy.