Weekend Post: Women's Issues: AFRICA: "Women's Decade": Greater Attention to Implementation

This article is about the unfair events occurring due to gender issues. Tanzania was the first to announce a 25 percent budget cut early in 2009. Gender, which already receives the lowest budget allocation in most African countries, will suffer more.

According to UNIFEM's (United Nations Development Fund for Women) 2008 Progress of the World's Women report, government budgets are the largest single source of financing for gender equality and women's empowerment in most countries.

But even with overseas development assistance (ODA) accounting for five to 10 percent of national budgets, the amounts actually allocated to gender equality are negligible and often hard to quantify because of a lack of sex disaggregated data.

Decade in defence of women's rights

This has prompted the Women and Gender Development Directorate at the African Union (AU) to initiate the African Women’s Decade – to rescue gender issues from being dropped from member states’ budget lines altogether.

Here women are not treated equally and they are seeking to be treated equally. I personally do not agree with how the women are treated in these third-world countries because us women have always been treated unfairly. We need to gain our power as women and fight for our rights. This article was taken from google news.