WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN THE ECOWAS REGION

The ECOWAS Centre for Gender Development (ECGD) organized in Dakar, Senegal, an Experts’ Meeting, followed by a meeting of ECOWAS Ministers in charge of Gender and Women’s Affairs. The meeting focused on the draft ECOWAS Regional Strategy for Preventing and Responding to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and on the ECOWAS Project on Sexual Harassment in Workplaces and Educational Institutions. West Africa, like other countries worldwide, is experiencing a recurrence of sexual and gender-based violence in both private and public spaces… particularly sexual violence perpetrated against women and girls during the COVID-19 pandemic.