The newly-appointed Minister of Women Affairs and former Deputy Governor of Plateau State, Dame Pauline Tallen, has said that all hands are on deck to eliminate harmful practices such as child marriage, female genital mutilation and other discriminatory practices among women and the girl-child.
The minister said this at the 2019 WAPA Connect Conference which has, as its theme, “Women’s Empowerment and its Link to Sustainable Development.” The conference held at the weekend at Agindigbi, Ikeja, Lagos, was organised by the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.
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The theme according to Tallen coincided with this year’s theme for 63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held this year in New York, which spoke on emerging issues that effect gender equality and empowerment of women. “The ministry is ready to collaborate with Ministry of Health to eliminate harmful practices among women and the girl-child,” said Tallen.
In her remarks, the wife of the Governor of Lagos State, Dr. (Mrs.) Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, said “The place of a woman is no longer in the kitchen or the other rooms as it were, rather, women are found in virtually all professions that were hitherto dominated by their male counterpart.
The theme, in the words of the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Mrs. Cecilia Bolaji Dada, is apt considering the crucial role that women play in economic development of most nations.
According to Dada, when women are economically empowered, not only are they fulfilled but economies grow.
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