{"id":2623,"date":"2020-04-24T14:24:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanep.gravitywebsolutionsgh.com\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2020-04-24T14:24:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:24:55","slug":"celebrating-women-on-iwd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/celebrating-women-on-iwd\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Women on IWD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worried by the growing threat of terrorism and violent extremism in<br \/>\nWest Africa and its grave impact on women, WANEP held a<br \/>\nroundtable discussion to commemorate the 2015 International<br \/>\nWomen\u2019s Day under the theme: \u201cMake it Happen!\u201d The round table<br \/>\ndiscussion titled; \u201cWomen Unite against Violent Extremism in West Africa\u201d was part of strategies to highlight women\u2019s contribution to countering violent extremism from a preventive perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Participants brainstormed on the causes of violent extremism and their consequences on women, probed the factors that perpetrate women\u2019s vulnerability, explored strategies women can use to counter violent extremism and how civil society can support women and girls in tackling these challenges. A Press release on the 2015 IWD was also presented at this occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worried by the growing threat of terrorism and violent extremism in West Africa and its grave impact on women, WANEP held a roundtable discussion to commemorate the 2015 International Women\u2019s Day under the theme: \u201cMake it Happen!\u201d The round table discussion titled; \u201cWomen Unite against Violent Extremism in West Africa\u201d was part of strategies to highlight women\u2019s contribution to countering violent extremism from a preventive perspective. Participants brainstormed on the causes of violent extremism and their consequences on women, probed the factors that perpetrate women\u2019s vulnerability, explored strategies women can use to counter violent extremism and how civil society can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-scorecard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}