Headlines AfricaAfrica: 'Without Us, There Is No Future' - Youth Take Over UN Women's Commission: [UN News] "Support us and include us" to achieve real progress on advancing equal rights for all, young leaders told the Commission on the Status of Women, as the forum wrapped up the first week of its annual session at the UN Headquarters, in New York, on Friday. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJZ4lB #YouthEmpowerment #GenderEquality #UNWomen #StatusOfWomen #EqualRights
Africa: Explainer - Commission On the Status of Women and Why It Matters: [UN News] Ever since former US First Lady and human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt inspired the first UN sub-commission on the status of women in the 1940s, thousands of women around the world meet at UN Headquarters in New York every March to take the pulse of the planet and make their voices heard. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJQpNF #StatusOfWomen #WomenEmpowerment #GenderEquality #HumanRights #EleanorRoosevelt
Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁RIP Monique Bégin
As an MP, Bégin handled the national revenue and national health and welfare portfolios.
"As a passionate sociologist, she created the child tax credit and championed legislation to increase the guaranteed income supplement," reads the statement.
"Her greatest achievement was the unanimous adoption of the Canada Health Act by the Parliament of Canada in 1984."
#RIP #Canada #CanadaHealthAct #StatusOfWomen #Medicare
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