Determination overrides faint hope for equal participation.

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Length: 0:28:49
Uploaded: 21 Mar, 2011

Recording Date: 20 Mar, 2011
Recording Location: Accra, Vancouver
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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WINGS #47-10 Ghana Women Look Ahead to Elections by Patience Dapaah and WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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Program Title: WINGS #47-10 Ghana Women Look Ahead to Elections
Description: Ghana ranks 111th out of 133 in percentage of women in Parliament (worse than the US, which is tied with Turkmenistan for 72nd place, or Canada, in 52nd place). Ghana's Women's Manifesto calls for equal participation in decision-making at all levels. However, bribery, sexist rumor-mongering and other vicious tactics must be overcome.

Host(s): Patience Dapaah, Frieda Werden
Featured Speakers/Guests: Rosaline Baatuolkuu Obeng-Ofori, Gender Activist, former Secretary of Cabinet, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS); Zalia Seidu, youngest ever candidate for Ghana's parliament (contested in the Ayawaso Central Constitency of Accra in Ghana in 2004 and 2008, lost on both occasions); Hamida Harrison, Convenor of the Women's Manifesto Coalition of Ghana and also Program Manager at Abantu for Development, a gender-focused organization in Ghana. Also discussed, the late Honorable Hawa Yakubu Ogede, former Member of Parliament, Bawku Central Constituency of the Upper East Region of Ghana, and former Member of the African Parliament.

Credits: Produced by Patience Dapaah. Series producer, Frieda Werden.

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