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Working Towards the
Creation of a Women's Rights Research and Documentation Centre for the Great
Lakes Region |
One of the significant projects which is
being implemented by the Social and Human Sciences Sector of UNESCO for
development in Africa, is the project of the Women's Rights Research and
Documentation Centre for the Great Lakes Region. On 24 and 25 July 2008, a
Conference of Ministers of Women's Rights of the 11 countries of the Great
Lakes Region (Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo,
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania and
Zambia) was held in Kinshasa, in order to make progress in the creation of this
centre.
Organized by the Ministry of
Women's Rights of the DRC and UNESCO, this meeting brought together the
Ministers of Women's Rights and the Secretaries-General of the National
Commissions for UNESCO of the countries concerned, in the presence of the
Permanent Ambassador of Kenya and President of the UNESCO’s Africa Group, as
well as the Permanent Delegate of the DRC for UNESCO and the representative to
the DRC to the Executive Board of the Organization.
All potential partners of this project also participated in this important
conference, along with representatives of the African Union, the International
Conference of the Great Lakes Region, different agencies of the United Nations,
as well as the African Bank of Development.
Following the model of the first centre, created in 2006, in Ramallah, on the
initiative of UNESCO, this project intends to promote the respect of women's
rights and gender equality by strengthening the capacities of networks and
centres of studies on women, while encouraging their involvement in the
reconstruction of countries in post-conflict situations through the processes
of democratization and good governance.
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