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The Ministry of Women and Social Affairs (Amharic: የሴቶች፣ ህፃናትና ወጣቶች ሚኒስቴር, MoWSA) is an Ethiopian government department responsible for ensuring women's rights and supporting their role in social, political and cultural participation, as well as protecting children's welfare and rights in the country. It ...
Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment is a controversial topic in Ethiopia. More women in Ethiopia are committed to deal with everybody in the family and village/community. In Ethiopia, about 80% of the populace lives in rural zones and women are responsible for most of the agricultural work in these communities. [33]
The Network of Ethiopian Women's Associations states that it was created in 2003 as a network of non-governmental organizations and women's associations in Ethiopia. [2] After a change in the Charities and Societies law in 2009, NEWA reorganized itself as a consortium of Ethiopian societies working on gender equality and women's rights. NEWA ...
The World Bank has long made Ethiopia a top priority, funneling loans to its government to help the East African nation of some 90 million people move past its legacy of poverty and famine. In 2005, the bank cut off funding for Ethiopia after the country’s authoritarian leaders massacred scores of people and arrested some 20,000 political ...
Eleven percent of women are married to a man with more than one wife and Sixty-three percent of women in Ethiopia are married by age 18, compared with just 14% of men Gender difference on age at first sex • 62% women and 18% of men age 25-49 were sexually active by the age of 18, i.e., Women start sexual activity about four and a half years ...
Association for Women's Sanctuary and Development (AWSAD) is a women's shelter in Ethiopia. [1] [2] [3] It is the first of its kind to be established in the country and began operations in 2003. [4] [5] [6] AWSAD currently has various branches in several cities including Addis Ababa and Adama. [7]
A survey of women between the ages of 15-49 from Bahir Dar in North-Eastern Ethiopia shows that two-thirds were aware of the 2005 law, but 57% remained under-educated as to its purposes. [21] A community-based cross-sectional survey from 2017 found that a woman's age can determine the level of knowledge held regarding the abortion law.
Due to the lack of progress in reducing the rate of poverty in Ethiopia, a map of marginality was created for the region to survey the state of poverty. [4] In Marginality as a Root Cause of Poverty: Identifying Marginality Hotspots in Ethiopia, Gatzweiler defines marginality as "an involuntary position and condition of an individual or group at the margins of social, political, economic ...