{"id":47665,"date":"2023-03-09T10:23:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T10:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/we-are-with-you-in-this-gender-equality-struggle-kagame-sends-best-wishes-as\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T14:39:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:39:50","slug":"we-are-with-you-in-this-gender-equality-struggle-kagame-sends-best-wishes-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/we-are-with-you-in-this-gender-equality-struggle-kagame-sends-best-wishes-as\/","title":{"rendered":"We are with you in this gender equality struggle \u2013 Kagame&#8217;s message on International Women\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Head of State delivered the message via Twitter handle on 8th March 2023. <\/p>\n<p>The International Women\u2019s Day is a global day observed on 8th March 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\u2019s empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame took advantage of the day to send best wishes to women in Rwanda and across the world. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSalute to all women in Rwanda and Globally on this important day. We are with you in this Gender equality struggle in its real sense!!\u201d he tweeted.  <\/p>\n<p>Figures from the latest Population and Housing Census in 2022 indicated that Rwanda registered 13,246,394 population of whom 48.5% are men while 51.5% are women.   <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda is globally reputed for efforts to promote gender equality and women empowerment.   <\/p>\n<p>The country has instituted policies aimed driving women\u2019s inclusion in the areas of education, economy and leadership among others.   <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda\u2019s Constitution of 2003 revised in 2015 provides for the minimum 30% quota for women in all decision-making organs. <\/p>\n<p>Promoting gender equality was among Rwanda\u2019s priorities following the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.  <\/p>\n<p>Today, women have representation at different leadership levels and have ushered their way into prosperity in the private sector.  <\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Rwanda\u2019s Lower Chamber of Parliament became the first globally with the highest proportion of women representation at 61.25% today, a way above the current global average of 26.4%. <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda has maintained the leading position in Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Global Ranking of Women in Parliament for the past ten years. <\/p>\n<p>Among others, women account for 50% in the cabinet. The law also provides for 30% women representation among local leaders. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-46593 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/52499246555_f86ab788b3_k-7ec23.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame sent best wishes to women as the world marked the International Women&#039;s Day 2023. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has sent best wishes to women as the world marked the International Women\u2019s Day 2023 and pledged his support to promote gender parity.}<\/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-47665","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\/47665","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=47665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47665"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47665"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}