Nigerian women have organized what they called a “special honorary dinner” in New York to celebrate Ms Amina Mohammed on her appointment as the UN Deputy Secretary-General. The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Sen. Aisha Alhassan, led other women to extol Mohammed’s virtues at the dinner, held at the Nigeria House. Alhassan said […]
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Women captured as sex slaves by the Isis militant group are sold at markets for “as little as a packet of cigarettes”, Zainab Bangura, the UN envoy on sexual violence, has said. Bangura, who said she had been to Syria and Iraq in recent months, said she found a war “being fought on the bodies […]
Dr. Mohammed Kamal National Coordinator, Future Assured Foundation; Joyce Lay, Member of Parliament, Kenya; Senator Lanre Tejuoso, the Chairman Senate Committee on Health, Nigeria; Dr. Rasha Kelej (centre), Chief Social Officer, Merck; Dolapo Osinbajo, Wife of Vice President of Nigeria; Dr. Toyin Saraki, Wife of Senate President, Nigeria; Sarah Opendi, Minister of State of Health, […]