Promoting women’s economic, political and socio-cultural rights has been at the heart of TWN Africa’s work on gender and development. Over the years we have undertaken research and advocacy and continue to undertake research on issues impacting women’s effective participation in the economy. We have built networks and advocated at the national, regional and global levels for policy and practices aimed at removing the barriers that inhibit African women’s total participation in the economy.
TWN has a new publication on artisanal and small scale salt mining in the Ketu South district of Ghana which looks at the conflict brewing between local communities and a large scale salt company whose activities seek to deprive...
Women’s small-scale salt miners on the Keta lagoon threatened by large-scale salt mining companies. TWN, with National Coalition on Mining (NCOM) partners, undertook a fact-finding mission to the area to find out more about the situation and the communities...
As the 62nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations in New York opens, women from every corner of the world will convene to deliberate on the theme of CSW 2018: Challenges...
Declaration of civil society organisations at the meeting of the Africa Trade Network, Cape Town, South Africa 22nd February 2008 We, civil society organisations, including farmers, workers, women’s, faith-based and students’ groups and organisations, call on our people to...
AFRICA LOSES NOTHING IF IT DOES NOT SIGN THE EPAs; IT RATHER SAVES ITS FUTURE DEVELOPMENT! We, African civil society organisations campaigning on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), meeting in Accra, Ghana, from 3-5 September 2007, under the umbrella...