'CONFERENCE TO CHART WOMEN'S PATH IN AFRICA '
By Juliana Taiwo

April 26, 2004 – (This Day - Lagos) Chairperson of Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF) and convener of the African Women Conference, Mrs. Amina Titi Atiku Abubakar has said the conference is meant to reposition Africa and write a new chapter in the history of African women.

Mrs. Atiku, who is also the wife of Vice President Atiku Abubakar, at a press conference to flag off the International Conference on the African Woman and Gender Development, said it is an assembly of about 500 women which epitomises the desire of WOTCLEF for a continental platform aimed at the advancement of womanhood.

The event,which is being organised in collaboration with Tedzachary, is a six-day conference intended to highlight and deliberate on issues related to the development of the African women towards resolutions to monitor such developments across the continent.

She said WOTCLEF and Tedzachary were motivated sincere and genuine concern for women and children in Africa. "We felt the need to lead our next generation of women and children in the right and fundamental direction. This is hinged on the conviction that the survival and development of the next generation is the women's natural and cultural responsibility," she said.

Mrs. Atiku said the six-day conference would touch on politics and development, environment, poverty and empowerment, society and culture, health and child development, education, war, security and conflict resolution, business and economy. She stressed that the media's contributions in terms of sensitisation, publicity and feed-back cannot be over-emphasised.

From: http://allafrica.com/stories/200404260960.html