July 22, 2020

Sylvia Noagbesenu provides expert inputs into Quick Guides for Policy Makers on Housing the Poor in African Cities by UN Habitat

This series of Quick Guides has been inspired by and prepared on the basis of a similar series on Housing the Poor in Asian Cities, which was published jointly by UN-HABITAT and UNESCAP in 2009.
July 22, 2020

Housing Rights Report submitted to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

United Nations General Assembly resolutions leading to system-wide human rights institutional reform have brought about major opportunities for the implementation of human rights in all UN […]
May 19, 2019

Sylvia Noagbesenu speaks on women peace and security issues in West Africa at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark

Monday 20 May 2019, 13.30-17.00 DIIS ∙ Danish Institute for International Studies Auditorium Gl. Kalkbrænderi Vej 51A 2100 Copenhagen With a few notable exceptions like Ghana […]
October 17, 2017

Sylvia Noagbesenu contributes to COHRE’s Bringing Equality Home; An analysis of women’s property and inheritance rights in Sub Saharan Africa

For over a decade, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) has been campaigning to realise the human right to adequate hosuing for everyone, everywhere.
October 17, 2017

Legal Experts submit a request for inspection to the World bank Inspection panel on the Kwabenya Landfill in Accra, Ghana.

April 10, 2017

Gender advocates discuss women’s land and property rights in Africa under the Maputo Protocol at the 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York.

On 17 March, 2017 Women and ESCR Working Group (WESCR WG) member Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) held a “Strategic Meeting to Advance Women’s […]
March 25, 2015

Sylvia Noagbesenu promotes women’s empowerment, land and housing rights at the 28th session of the Human Rights Council in Switzerland, Geneva.

The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, together with the Missions of Finland, Germany and Sierra Leone, recently held a side event on women’s […]
April 10, 2012

The Executive Director of IGED-Africa adviced the media to promote women’s property and inheritance rights in the context of HIV and AIDS in Ghana.

Peoples’ Dialogue on Human Settlement, a non-governmental organisation, on Tuesday called on journalists to promote the rights of women to acquire and own property to make […]