Ghanaian women joined the rest of the world to celebrate International Women’s Day yesterday, March 8, 2020.
The day is marked globally on March 8 every year to celebrate women’s achievements from political, economic and socio-cultural space.
The theme for this year’s celebration is, I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights.
It is aligned with UN Women’s new multigenerational campaign, Generation Equality, which marks the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platforms for Action.
Adopted in 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, the Beijing Platform for Action is recognized as the most progressive roadmap for the empowerment of women and girls, everywhere.
The first International Women’s Day occurred in 1911 and was supported by over one million people.
First Lady Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, says she recognize and celebrate all the amazing Ghanaian women on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
In particular, she saluted and acknowledged the contributions of all the amazing women who go “unnoticed”.
“Let’s support one another to consolidate our gains and strive for more” Mrs. Akufo-Addo said in a message to mark the day.
She wished all women, happy international women’s Day.
At the launch of the celebration, in Accra, Mrs. Cynthia Mamle Morrison, Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, recounted Ghana’s efforts at promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment.
These, she said, had been achieved through institutional, administrative, social protection and legal reforms, including the promotion of gender mainstreaming in all governing processes.
Gender-responsive budgeting in the Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDs), as well as the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programs, were all geared towards gender equality.
Addressing the theme for the celebration, she, however, noted that: “The generation of the equality campaign demands equal pay, equal sharing of unpaid care and domestic work, an end to sexual harassment and all forms of violence against women and girls.
“Health- care services that respond to the needs of women and equal participation in political life and decision-making in all areas of life”.
Mrs. Morrison said the United Nations Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action of 1995 had been the most visionary platform for the empowerment of women and girls.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
