Promoting Women’s Rights

International Women’s Day (IWD) connects ladies around the globe and is designed to motivate them to achieve their full potential. It is a great occasion to focus on the abuse of women’s proper rights around the world, whilst honoring the key role that females play in making a fairer and a lot more just world.

In celebration of IWD, ActionAid ambassador, Emma Thompson visited Liberia with her child Tindy – a former child-soldier and has called for greater investment in Liberia’s most promising resource – their females.

It is essential to aid a charitable organisation that operates with local communities helping women and also girls to recognize what their legal rights are and supports them to use legal actions to apply these legal rights. This is accomplished by means of both formal and non formal schooling. In countries like Liberia where Women’s Rights aren’t enshrined within the law, charities will need to work with both community and national partner establishments to change this.

Rural ladies are often faraway from the centres of power and decision making. Violations of their rights are typically viewed as “culture” or “the manner things have constantly been carried out in a community”. Farm women’s economical actions are seen as simply women’s work and are not counted in national statistics, or important to GDP. Nevertheless between 60 and 80 % of foodstuff in developing nations is created by females; girls toil in most of the the planet’s fields – from sowing potatoes in South America to growing maize in Africa – and sowing rice in the waterlogged farms of Asia. Yet many women don’t own or control the land they work on. This needs to change.

Females own much less than 1 % of land on average plus rural ladies receive much less than 10 percent of the credit supplied to farmers. Eliminating discrimination in land and property rights is crucial to rolling back the impoverishment of millions of women worldwide and is, without doubt, a needed condition for fair sustainable growth.

Help ActionAid to protect women’s rights across the world. Support International Women’s Day in 2011.