UB group tackles sexual discrimination
Thursday, April 10, 2014
“Young women have the right to take control and decide freely on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, without any discrimination,” she said yesterday at the launch of a book by the UB Young Women’s Leadership Project. She said only through intergenerational and inter-institutional dialogue can young women’s voices be freed.
Nyathi-Saleshando described members of the Young Women Leadership Project as a group of strong people who are continually on the lookout for innovative and effective ways to improve their lives and enable other young women to believe in their abilities to catalyse change.
A few weeks after the former ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) was reduced to a pale shadow of itself in the just passed General Election on October 30, it was only logical that you take a conscious decision of resigning from the party. This was before you could be pushed out of the position by irate party diehards who feel you did not do enough during your tenure as the head of the party secretariat.We know that it is at the party...