Author: webrwanda

The United Nations has expressed concerns about attempts by Somali lawmakers to pass a new bill that allows child marriage and contravenes relevant international conventions.

In separate statements, the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said the Sexual Offenses Bill, which was approved by Somalia’s cabinet, may have been changed by a parliamentary committee in a manner that allows child marriages.

The UNFPA expressed concern about the inaction of parliament to introduce the bill adopted by the cabinet and submitted by the Ministry of Women and Human Rights in 2019 for reading and passage into law.

“We are calling for the immediate passage into law of the Sexual Offenses Bill, which has been pending adoption by the parliament.

The law will be vital in preventing and criminalizing all sexual offenses,” UNFPA Somalia Representative Anders Thomsen said in a statement issued Sunday evening.

Thomsen called for the strengthening of protection systems as women and girls continue to be at high risk of experiencing gender-based violence.

The UNFPA said it does not support any bill with the potential to violate the rights of women and girls and expose them to further violence and deprivation nor does it support a bill that deviates from norms and standards of international human rights.

The Sexual Offenses Bill criminalizes child marriages and other offenses against women and children such as forced marriages and female genital mutilation. UNSOM also expressed concern over the tabling of a “deeply flawed” bill that allows child marriage.

source https://taarifa.rw/un-urges-somali-lawmakers-not-to-pass-flawed-sexual-offenses-bill/

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday outlined a series of steps to economically emancipate South African women gripped by both the COVID-19 pandemic and gender-based violence.

Although a great deal has been achieved in improving the lives of South African women in the economy, in the political sphere and in public life, there is still much to do, Ramaphosa said in his weekly presidential address as the country marked the Women’s Month, which falls in August.

“Women still face discrimination, harassment, and violence, and bear the greatest brunt of poverty,” he said. To achieve economic justice for South African women, Ramaphosa specified the following steps:

Women’s economic inclusion is to be driven through public procurement, with targets having been set to ensure that at least 40 percent of goods and services procured by public entities are sourced from women-owned businesses;

Support for women-owned small, medium and micro enterprises is to be scaled for women who work in the informal sector or are unemployed, with engagement with the financial sector to make financial services accessible and affordable for women;

More women will have access to productive assets such as land, and efforts will be made to ensure that women be beneficiaries of the accelerated land reform program, and Women must be protected from gender-based violence in the workplace, and the government will be working at a national and regional level toward the ratification of the International Labor Organization Convention on Violence and Harassment in the Workplace.

Ramaphosa encouraged businesses to support women-owned enterprises in the procurement of goods and services and employ more women while also appointing more women to management positions.

He highlighted the need to eliminate gender disparities in pay, in line with the Employment Equity Act.”As we prepare for the reconstruction of our economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, we have said that we cannot simply return to where we were before the outbreak of the virus,” Ramaphosa said.

South Africa, he said, must build a fundamentally different economy which, among other things, substantially improves the material position of women.

source https://taarifa.rw/s-african-president-outlines-steps-to-economically-emancipate-women/

Urwego rw’ibanga rushinzwe kurinda abategetsi bakuru n’imiryango yabo, kuri uyu wa 10 Kanama 2020 rwasohoye igitaraganya Perezida Donald Trump wa Amerika mu kiganiro n’abanyamakuru, nyuma y’amasasu yarasiwe hanze y’ibiro bye White House.

Umukozi w’urwo rwego rufite mu nshingano kurinda abategetsi bakuru n’imiryango yabo, yazamutse aho Perezida Trump yari ahagaze ariho avuga maze aramwongorera.

Mu gihe yahise asohorwa muri icyo cyumba, Trump yumvikanye avuga ngo “Oh” na “Ni ibiki biri kuba?”. White House yahise ifungwa yose kubera ibi byabaye kuwa mbere.

Hashize iminota icyenda, Perezida Trump yagarutse, avuga ko ibintu byasubijwe mu buryo, ko hari umugabo warashwe.

Urwego rw’ibanga rwa Amerika rwemeje ibyabaye, ruvuga ko hari “umukozi mu nzego z’umutekano warasanye” ku muhanda wegereye ibiro bya White House.

Uru rwego rwagize ruti: “umuntu w’umugabo hamwe n’umukozi w’urwego rw’ibanga rwa Amerika bombi bajyanywe mu bitaro”, rwongeraho ko “muri icyo gihe nta cyahungabanyije White House cyangwa uwo turinda wese”.

Perezida Trump yabwiye abanyamakuru ko “mubyo yumvise“, uru rwego rwarashe ukekwa wari ufite imbunda. Yavuze ko atazi niba uwo muntu yari agamije kumugirira nabi. Ati: “Wasanga ntaho bihuriye nanjye“.

Perezida Trump ariko yemeje ko ari ikintu kidasanzwe, ashimagiza ubunyamwuga bw’uru rwego rumurinda. Umunyamakuru yamubajije niba adafite ubwoba kubera ibimaze kuba. Perezida Trump aramusubiza ati: “Urabona mfite ubwoba?”.

Yongeraho ati: “Nta kundi aha ni ku isi, kandi isi nta gihe itabayeho ahantu hateye akaga. Ntabwo ari ikintu cya hano gusa. Iyo usubije amaso inyuma mu binyejana byashize, ubona ko isi yahoze ari ahantu hateye akaga, hateye akaga cyane, bizakomeza, niko nkeka, mu gihe runaka”.

Yabwiye abanyamakuru ko yaherekejwe akagezwa mu cyumba akoreramo ‘Oval Office’ ubwo ibi byariho biba.

Abandi bategetsi basohowe muri iki kiganiro nkuko BBC ibitangaza, barimo minisitiri ushinzwe ubukungu n’ushinzwe ingengo y’imari. Icyumba cyaberagamo icyo kiganiro cyahise gifungwa.

Ibiro ntaramakuru bya Amerika bivugwa ko umuntu warasiwe hafi aho ashobora kuba yakomeretse bikomeye cyane. Bivugwa kandi ko bari gusuzuma niba uwateye aha hantu nta kibazo cyo mu mutwe yaba afite.

Munyaneza Theogene / intyoza.com

source http://www.intyoza.com/perezidatrump-yasohowe-igitaraganya-mu-kiganiro-nabanyamakuru-kubera-amasasu/

source http://www.ukwezi.rw/Mu-mahanga/Umutekano/article/Perezida-Donald-Trump-yahungishijwe-amasasu-igitaraganya-ahamya-ko-isi-ifite-akaga

Nadia Uwamahoro is a Rwandan computer engineer and ICT specialist. She founded her IT firm whilst still an undergraduate at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST).

Nadia’s firm is a software company that creates mobile applications, including web applications from scratch with branches in Uganda and Ghana.

Her second company, Gira ICT, is an educational platform that facilitates the distribution of academic resources such as loans, grants and teaching videos for teachers, students and parents. 

According to her, her  love for innovation, education and time efficiency compelled her to study computer engineering. 

Nadia Uwamahoro is the Founder and CEO at Data Systems.

She featured on the Under40 CEOs in Africa, a Nigerian online TV show, that covers business, IT, entrepreneurship and other subjects in Africa.

Watch her:

source https://taarifa.rw/rwanda-is-moving-from-an-agriculture-based-ecomomy-to-a-knowledge-based-one-nadia-uwamahoro-on-under-40-ceos/