The Campaign for Women's Right: Progress Made in parts of Africa
Efforts to promote the rights of women the world over has been on for a very long time now. Many strategies have been employed but the theme; 'to promote gender equality and empower women' and the target; 'eliminate gender disparity at all levels' has remained. In Africa, the tom tom of the Africa drum has raised many from slumber in the same regard. Sexual harrasment, Rape, Violence against women, kidnapping and trafficking of women remain as the most intractable violations of women's rights today.
In 2006, Chancellor Gordon Brown, and International Development Secretary Hilary Benn announced that the UK will quadruple aid for education to $15 billion (£8.5 billion) over the next ten years. That is to say, from 2006 to 2016. They had reasoned that Education is the simple most powerful tool in the fight against global poverty and this is nowhere more clear than in the education of girls. Findings had revealed that more than 100 million of the world's children