Maimuna Mwidau raises pertinent issues on how to play the political game ball

Are politicians born or made? That is a million dollar question that got Ms Maimuna Mwidau talking on how women can make it right in a rough terrain that has kept their numbers low and invisible.

Speaking on issues constitution, Maimuna would like to see Kenya on a devolved platform. “We have a centralized government that has to be decentralized, put checks on a powerful presidency and give people their rights,” she says. “People have made it a self-interest agenda of political perspective, playing politics and planning for themselves and not about Kenya.”

Gertrude Mongella personifies Platform for Action

Sitting pensively among the audience at the two day Global NGO Forum which took place prior to the UN conference on Beijing Platform for Action in New York in March, she is inconspicuous among the many participants.

Anne Njogu feted for spiritedly putting human rights on the spotlight

As Ms Ann Njogu received the International Women of Courage (IWOC) Award in Washington DC on International Women’s Day, many other women from all over the world were gathered in New York to mark the 15 years since the Beijing Platform for Action.

March, London – Hon Phoebe Asiyo this month joined the world leaders who were brought together by the aid agency Concern Worldwide’s Women Can’t Wait campaign, which is calling on the UN and world leaders to act now to support poor women across the developing world in their fight against hunger before it is too late.

The campaign was launched at a VIP reception in the House of Lords to mark International Women’s Day, with moving speeches from Mrs Phoebe Asiyo, UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador from Kenya and Baroness Nuala O’Loan DBE, highlighted the plight of women in Africa where poverty wears a woman face.