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CAMFED (also known as the Campaign for Female Education) is an international non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 1993 whose mission is to eradicate poverty in Africa through the education of girls and the empowerment of young women. CAMFED programs operate in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania and Malawi.
Malawi has been facing rise in human trafficking with many victims being women and children since the early 2000s. [29] [30] [31] In 2024, a 32-year-old Malawian woman, Georgina, was tricked into working as a maid in Sultanate of Oman with promises of a better life. Instead, she was subjected to physical and sexual abuse, forced to work long ...
Opposition Malawi Congress Party leader Lazarus Chakwera addresses election protesters in Blantyre (2019) Mass protests began after the 2019 Malawian general election results were announced and demands for annulment for the elections were chanted as the military was sent in to keep the mass demonstrations from spreading.
At the time of her death, she assumed the responsibility of Associate Professor. She was an avid human rights activist and a promoter of women's rights. She previously served as Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Malawi. [2] [3] She specialised in business law, gender law, labour law and social security. [4]
Banda is the founder of the National Association of Business Women in Malawi that was established in 1990. It is a registered non-profit foundation in Malawi. [ 68 ] The association aims to lift women out of poverty by strengthening their capacity and empowering them economically. [ 69 ]
Malawi is a source country for women, and children subjected to sex trafficking. To a lesser extent, it is a destination country for men, women, and children from Zambia, Mozambique , the African Great Lakes region, and the Horn of Africa who are subjected to sex trafficking, and a transit country for people from these countries exploited in ...
In 2009, the women's rights group Women in Law in Southern Africa–Malawi sued the national government on the grounds that the anti-abortion law infringed on women's rights. The Malawi Human Rights Commission supported the initiative. [9] In 2010, Secretary of Health Christopher Kang'ombe said the government did not plan to legalise abortion. [5]
Women's rights in Malawi (2 C, 4 P) This page was last edited on 22 January 2023, at 22:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...