Policy Insights 140 - Africa’s Women and the Promotion of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Science

3 Policy Insights 140 | AFRICA’S WOMEN AND THE PROMOTION OF PEACEFUL USES OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY the UN Agenda 2030 in Africa and globally.10 This includes enhancing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, as per SDG 5.11 This policy insight explores the absence of women in security-development. [...] It does this by looking at the status and vulnerability of African women owing to the continent’s nuclear history, the persistent exclusion of women from decision-making and NST opportunities, and the lack of nuclear medicine facilities to treat women. [...] The TPNW is the first international treaty to recognise the disproportionate impact on women in its text Of great significance is that the TPNW is the first international treaty to recognise the disproportionate impact on women in its text.29 Besides this, the treaty recognises that ‘equal, full and effective participation of both women and men is an essential factor for the promotion and attainme. [...] 8 Policy Insights 140 | AFRICA’S WOMEN AND THE PROMOTION OF PEACEFUL USES OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY importance of the equal, full and effective participation of both women and men in nuclear disarmament diplomacy’.32 Nuclear and women in Africa Africa is home to a regional chapter of the Women in Nuclear Global Organisation, Women in Nuclear Africa (WiN Africa). [...] Returning to the African proverb cited earlier, the solution to the promotion of the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology in Africa could be rephrased to, ‘If you educate and include women on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology, it adds to the achievement of development goals for their nation and, indeed, to the achievement of international treaty obligations.’ 12 Policy.