Celebrating International Women's Day 2021
Welcome to another edition of Playsafe Magazine. A publication of Playsafe Life Care Foundation to honour International Womens Day and advocacy for womens rights and equality around the world. In this issue, we joined the whole world to commemorate International Womens Day, 8th of March, 2021 with the theme, Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world. The theme is to celebrate tremendous efforts made by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. In Nigeria, women are more at disadvantage, facing endemic social and systemic barriers to participation in leadership, physical and emotional abuse, and domestic violence in all forms, unpaid care duties, unemployment and poverty. In 2019, new barriers emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic which increased violence against women, disproportionate and inadequate representation of women in national policy spaces. In lieu of the above, we talked to Ms. Oluwatoni Adeleke, Gender Activist and Chief Executive Officer, Olive Community Development Initiative, Nigeria, who has being supporting women during this COVID-19 crisis as a caregiver and community organizer, raising awareness on gender equality and violence against women. She highlighted and answered some of unanswered questions on the theme of International Womens Day 2021 like; what international womens day stand for, the difference between gender equity, gender equality and womens empowerment, important challenge that women face today and advice for young women. Inclusively, we interviewed Hajia Afusat Nike Ibrahim (Mrs.) Permanent Secretary, Kwara State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development on how the state government is acknowledging International Womens Day 2021, how the state government is accelerating attainment of women rights and eradicating gender violence, usefulness of quotas, the gender equality, how the state government is trying to achieve gender equality, and eradication of increased gender violence in a covid-19 World and how gender equality is a concern of all.
Welcome to another edition of Playsafe Magazine. A publication of Playsafe Life Care Foundation to honour International Womens Day and advocacy for womens rights and equality around the world.
In this issue, we joined the whole world to commemorate International Womens Day, 8th of March, 2021 with the theme, Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world. The theme is to celebrate tremendous efforts made by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Nigeria, women are more at disadvantage, facing endemic social and systemic barriers to participation in leadership, physical and emotional abuse, and domestic violence in all forms, unpaid care duties, unemployment and poverty. In 2019, new barriers emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic which increased violence against women, disproportionate and inadequate representation of women in national policy spaces.
In lieu of the above, we talked to Ms. Oluwatoni Adeleke, Gender Activist and Chief Executive Officer, Olive Community Development Initiative, Nigeria, who has being supporting women during this COVID-19 crisis as a caregiver and community organizer, raising awareness on gender equality and violence against women. She highlighted and answered some of unanswered questions on the theme of International Womens Day 2021 like; what international womens day stand for, the difference between gender equity, gender equality and womens empowerment, important challenge that women face today and advice for young women.
Inclusively, we interviewed Hajia Afusat Nike Ibrahim (Mrs.) Permanent Secretary, Kwara State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development on how the state government is acknowledging International Womens Day 2021, how the state government is accelerating attainment of women rights and eradicating gender violence, usefulness of quotas, the gender equality, how the state government is trying to achieve gender equality, and eradication of increased gender violence in a covid-19 World and how gender equality is a concern of all.
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