Women’s Empowerment and Development: the Eritrean Experience

By African Union Commission, In a bid to contribute to the success of the AU theme of the year, the Permanent Mission of the State of Eritrea to AU and UNECA in collaboration of the African Union Commission (AUC) has today organized a seminar under the theme ”Women’s Empowerment and Development: the Eritrean Experience” to […]

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Eritrea’s Achievements on Gender Equality Applauded at a UN Side Event

By Eritrean Permanent Mission to the UN, A SIDE-EVENT was co-organized by the Permanent Mission of Eritrea and the United Nations Country Team under the theme “Empowering Women: Eritrea’s Achievements and Experience” during the 59th Session of the Commission on Status of Women in New York on the 16 March 2015, with a full house […]

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Statement by the National Union of Eritrean Women at UN Women’s Conference

By Eritrea Mission – UN, STATEMENT delivered by the President of the National Union of Eritrean Women (NUEW), H.E. Ms. Tekea Tesfamichael, during the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women on review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing declaration and platform for action at the United Nations Headquarters in New […]

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Empowering Women: UN Report 2015 – Eritrea

By Eritrea Mission and UNCT, INTRODUCTION: Eritrea with 1200km coastline and more than 300 islands in the Red Sea is strategically situated in the eastern part of Africa. It joined the international community in 1993 following liberation from Ethiopian colonialism in 1991 through an arduous thirty-year armed struggle. The socio-economic character of the Eritrean population […]

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A UN Side Event on “Empowering Women: Eritrea’s Achievements and Experiences” to be Held

By Eritrea Mission and UNCT, ON the occasion of the 59th Session of the Commission on Status of Women, the Permanent Mission of Eritrea to the United Nations together with the UN Country Team (UNCT) will organise a side event on Monday March 16, 2015 at the UN headquarters in New York. Women are disproportionately […]

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