Outspoken female journalist, Afia Pokua will host Adom FM’s flagship morning show, Dwaso Nsem to mark this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD).
Vim lady as she is popularly called will on Thursday be joined by notable female figures to discuss issues of concern to women as the world puts the spotlight on women.
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International Women’s Day is a dedicated by the UN as the day on which the whole world must reflect on and acknowledge not only the enormous and incalculable contributions of women to the achievement of better livelihoods for humanity but also to ponder about the travails and tribulations of women.
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From 5:30 am to 10 am, Afia Pokua and her panelists will address questions affecting women and push authorities to take action.
Gender Minister, Otiko Djaba, launched the UN-backed International Women’s on March 1, 2018, in Accra on the theme ‘#Women Too – Press to Progress as Game Changers’.
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This year’s international women’s celebrations focus on gender equality for women which is also captured by the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) Goal 5: “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”.
Some of the targets are:
– End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.
– Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.
– Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation.
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Afia Pokua (Vim Lady)
– Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate.
– Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision making in political, economic and public life.