{"id":43036,"date":"2021-03-09T10:36:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T10:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/there-can-be-no-progress-without-equal-participation-and-opportunity-for-all\/"},"modified":"2021-03-10T15:04:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T15:04:35","slug":"there-can-be-no-progress-without-equal-participation-and-opportunity-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/there-can-be-no-progress-without-equal-participation-and-opportunity-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"There can be no progress without equal participation and opportunity for all-Kagame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kagame delivered the message via Twitter handle yesterday as Rwanda joined the rest of the World to celebrate International Women\u2019s Day under the global theme \u201cWomen in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world,\u201d while in Rwanda, the theme was \u201cWomen at the forefront in the Covid-19 World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy International Women&#8217;s Day! Today is a reminder that gender equality is not just a women\u2019s issue. There can be no progress without equal participation and opportunity for all. Each one of us has a role to play to ensure gender disparity and exclusion has no place in our future,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>The International Women&#8217;s Day is a global day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, while also making a call to action for strengthening gender equality and accelerating women&#8217;s empowerment. <\/p>\n<p>The day has been celebrated during COVID-19 pandemic which has caused unprecedented effects in different aspects of life.  <\/p>\n<p>At least 3 million African women lost jobs while 1.3 million stopped applying for jobs in 2020 due to Coronavirus.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda has been commended globally for efforts in establishing policies and laws aimed at promoting women empowerment in different aspects.<\/p>\n<p> Rwanda is now a global leader in women participation in legislative decision-making positions with 61.3% female members of Parliament and also ranked 9th globally in closing gender gaps according to the Global Gender Gap Report, 2020. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, 53% of the Cabinet members are women, among the Judges and clerks, women stand at 49.7% while in the local government leadership, women occupy 45.2 % as Members of District Councils.<\/p>\n<p>International Women&#8217;s Day was honoured for the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland on March 9, 1911. More than one million women and men attended the rallies campaigning for women&#8217;s rights to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office and end discrimination.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37999 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_paul_kagame_yagaragaje_ko_guharanira_uburinganire_bidakwiye_guharirwa_abagore_gusa.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame has reminded the world that striving for gender equality should be everyone\u2019s responsibility requiring equal participation. Photo Village Urugwiro\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has reminded the world that striving for gender equality should be everyone\u2019s responsibility requiring equal participation.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43036"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43036"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}