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African Gender Award

African gender award

Every two years, Femmes Africa Solidarité gives the African Gender Award to a leader of Africa who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in encouraging peace and development through the implementation of gender-sensitive measures. The first award presented was 1 May 2005 in Dakar, Senegal. Read details of the award and its recipients.

Femmes Africa Solidarité

Femmes Africa Solidarité

Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS), created in 1996, seeks to foster, strengthen and promote the leadership role of women in conflict prevention, management and resolution on the African continent. FAS's work in this regard is set in the context of a wider campaign to protect and promote women's human rights in Africa. For FAS, engendering the peace process is vital to achieving the lasting absence of conflict on the African continent. Efforts to resolve conflict and address its root causes will not succeed unless we empower all those who have suffered from it—including and especially women who suffer its impact disproportionately. Only if women play a full and equal part can we build the foundations for enduring peace: development, good governance, human rights and justice.

FAS' International Secretariat, based in Geneva, Switzerland, coordinates programmes in Africa and serves as a contact point for international organizations, NGOs and donor agencies. FAS established its International Secretariat in Geneva in order to facilitate its resource mobilisation efforts and to maximise the visibility of African women's initiatives at the international level. To consolidate its presence at the international level, FAS has a permanent representative stationed in New York.

Femmes Africa Solidarité
United Nations Liaison Office
Contact: Adama Diop, United Nations Liaison Officer
777 United Nations Plaza, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10017-3521
Tel 212-687-1369 ext. 232 · Fax 212-661-4188
info@fasngo.org
www.fasngo.org

Celebrating with Her Excellency Madam Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson President of Liberia

Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS) would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Madame Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on her election as well as the Liberian people who elected her. FAS is particularly proud to be associated with the inauguration of Madame Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson. This is truly a celebration, of which all women of the world and in particular Africa are proud of. It is also a coming together to celebrate with our sister, mother and friend so that we may help bring new dignity and respect to women and girls all over the world—and in so doing, bring new strength and stability to the Mano River region as well.

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