New York - Moroccan Oumayma Achour, chairwoman of the Jossour association, was elected vice-president of the "Forum des Femmes d'Afrique Post 2015" during the sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) held in New York on March 14-24.
New York – Moroccan Oumayma Achour, chairwoman of the Jossour association, was elected vice-president of the “Forum des Femmes d’Afrique Post 2015” during the sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) held in New York on March 14-24.
Achour, a civil society activist in the field of women’s empowerment and gender equality, was included in the list of African women elected as vice-presidents of the forum mainly Burkina Faso’s Adoua Maria Goretti Dicko-Agaleoue, Mali’s Fatoumata Traoré Diarra, Angola’s Lucia Ingles and Niger’s Oussenie Hadizatou Yacouba.
“This election comes at a time when African women are facing real problems of inequality and discrimination at the levels of education, health, employment and social welfare,” Achour was quoted by MAP as saying.
“African women also face violence caused by the different conflicts in the Sahel region,” she added.
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