COTE D´IVOIRE

Sol Ontañón y Efraín

Jiménez
 INDEX
 1. Geographical location
 2.Demography
 3.Politics
 4.Customs and Traditions
 5.Present Situation of Cote D´Ivoire
 6.ECOSOC and Cote D´Ivoire
 7.Women in Cote D´Ivoire
 8. Personal Opinion
 9.Webs and Sources Used
 1.Geographical Location

 Cote D' Ivoire is located

in Western Africa,
bordering the north
Atlantic Ocean, between
Ghana and Liberia.
 Area  322.463 sq Km
 It has a coast line of 515
Km
 1.Geographical Location

 Yamusukro is the
legislative capital.
 Abidjan is the most
populated city and the
largest one, it is also
the administrative
capital.
 Bouake is also an
important city.
 1. Geographical Location

 The climate is tropical along the coast and

semiarid in the far north.
 The official currency in Cote D´Ivoire is the
west African CFA Franc.
 2.Demography

 There are 25 million inhabitants, 50.66% are

men and 49.34% are women.
 There are 75 inhabitants per sq Km.
 2. Demography

 Boule is one of the largest

ethnic groups. It has 2
million members. Boule is a
part of Akan village and
their main job is the
agriculture.
 Lobi is an ethnic group that
lives in a large area of Cote
D´Ivoire, around the Volta
river, but now they live
around the region. They
never have never had a
good politic organisation
and it is considerated one of
the poorest ethnic groups.
 2. Demography

 The Islam religion is

compound of 38.6% of
population, Christians
about 32.8% and
Indigenous 11.9%.
 3. Politics

 Presidential
republic  They got
the independence
from France the 7th
of August 1960.
 The civil law system
is based on the
French civil code.
 3. Politics
 Chief of state  Alassane Dramane Ouattara
(4th December 2010)
 Head of government  Amadou Gon Coulibaly
 The president was elected by the absolute
majority and the prime minister was appointed
by the president.
 4. Customs and Traditions

 Cote D´Ivoire's
roughly 60 ethnic
groups bring
diversity to our
country's Cuisine.
 Each group has
developed a diet
suitable to their
lifestyle.
 4.Customs and traditions
 Agni and Abron survive by farming cocoa and
coffee.
 The Senufo cultivate rice, yams, peanuts and
millet.
 The people living near the coast enjoy a wide
variety of seafood.
 4.Customs and traditions

 The national dish is fufu

 Fufu are plantains,
cassava and yams
pounded into a sticky
dough and served with
seasoned meat and a
vegetable sauce called
kedjenou.
 It is typically eaten with
the hands.
 4.Customs and traditions
 Our feast days are the same than everyone´s,
but we have the Day of the Republic, 7th August.
 Cote D’Ivoire has only got two artists; Alfa
Blondy and Tiken Jah Fakoli both of reggae music
with a disc.
 4. Customs and traditions

 In Cote D’Ivoire the 77

ethnics groups have
their own language and
their own dances. Boule
has one of the happiest
dances called Abodá.
This rhythms are
characterised for their
energy.
 4.Customs and traditions
 Cote D´Ivoire is a developing country so people
wear both traditional and western clothes. In cities
and towns most people wear western clothes:
Pants, jeans or t-shirts.
 Women still wear the traditional brightly colored
dresses (pagnes) with matching scarves in rural
areas.
 4.Customs and traditions
 Hospitality and solidarity are expressed in
the Ivorian national anthem.
 Men tend to dominate interpersonal
relatonships.
 Village elders are traditionally accorded
much respect.
 5.Present situation

●
Since its independence from France we had
religious and ethnic harmony and a well-
developed economy.
●
50% Of the total population live below the
poverty line.
 5.Present situation
 Only 38.6% of females who are older than 15
can read and write.
 The rate of teenage pregnancy and HIVS/AIDS
cases are very high due to a lack of education.
 Thousands of people die every year beceause
of HIVS/AIDS, malaria and typhot fever.
 5.Present situation

 Democracy and peace

are under constant
threat given the
religious and political
conflicts between the
Muslims and the
Christians.
 The government is
corrupted in all levels
which is tearing our
country to pieces.
 6.What is ECOSOC

●
ECOSOC(Economic and
Social Council) is the
platform where the
United Nations debate
and think how to improve
the suitable development.
It is one of the most
important platforms of
the UN and it controls
the activities that the
United Nations do.
6. ECOSOC and Cote D'Ivoire

 On February 20th 2017 in

Abidjan, the Ministry of
Planning and Development of
Cote d'Ivoire, in collaboration
with ECOSOC and the UNECA
will be launched a support
project to strengthen
development planning in Côte
d'Ivoire.
 One future collaboration with
ECOSOC consists of an alliance
to improve Cote D'Ivoire's I+D
infrastructure development.
 7. Women in Cote D'Ivoire
General Information

●
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
●
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and
Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
●
The government has still not ratified the Optional
Protocol to CEDAW
 7.Women in Cote d'Ivoire
Education

● After the coup d'etat and the civil war,

Cote d'Ivoire could roughly restore
the educational system.
● Cote d'Ivoire has primary school,
secondary school and higher
education. Primary school is obligatory
for everyone but only about 2 million
people receive this type of education. Secondary school and higher
education are not compulsory. Women don't usually attain them.
● To make it to university, students must have excellent grades.
Rules are very strict and the university is quite small.
 7.Women in Cote d'Ivoire
Education

●
Although the education in our country has evolved, there
is still a lot to do to improve general education and
discrimination of women.
 7. Women in Cote d'Ivoire
Violence against women
●
Major problems that affect women
are discrimination in the family,
violence, less access to education,
property, health services and
justice.
●
A law punishing some forms of
violence against women and a law
criminalising rape were passed in
1997.
● Men responsible for these crimes
still take advantage of general
impunity due to a “culture of
silence”.
 7. Women in Cote d'Ivoire
Violence against women

●
During the armed conflict from 2002 to 2007 crimes of
sexual violence were commited on a large scale by
members of armed groups.
● Victims of this type of crimes rarely report them
because of their fear of been rejected by society or that
the criminals' family will take revenge.
 7. Women in Cote d'Ivoire
Violence against women

● A survey was administrated to

Ivorian Women to measure the
frecuency of IPV (Intimate
Partner Violence)
● 53.6% reported past year
exposure to physical, sexual or
emotional IPV.
● 46.4% were exoposed to
emotional IPV which was the ● Some aditional forms
most common form of violence
of IPV included
in this survey.
economic IPV and
● 21.7% - sexual violence
comunity
● 17.4% - physical violence
discrimination.
 7. Women in Cote d'Ivoire
Women in rural areas

●
In rural areas the situation is worrying.
People there are very traditional so
women have suffer every kind of
violence.
●
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is still
a common practice in these areas and
among the muslim population, although
it has been a crime since 1998.
● One of the main reasons this is
happening is because of a lack of
awareness-raising programmes from the
government.
 7. Women in Cote D'Ivoire
Wage gap

●
In Cote D'Ivoire men earn 27% more than women
doing the same kind of jobs
●
Women don't hold important positions in public and
political matters.
●
Out of 189 countries in the Gender Inequality Index
Cote D'Ivoire occupies the 170th position
 8. Personal Opinion

●
We think the root of the
problem between women and
men is the conservative minds
that inhabitants in Cote
d'Ivoire have. For changing
their minds Ivorians have to be
reeducated, the government
and ECOSOC could help us
with this problem by becoming
Ivorians' ideas more open
minded.
 8. Personal Opinion
●
Some ideas to resolve this problem is the creation
of awareness-raising programmes from the
government or the creation of safe and supportive
spaces for women to talk about and challenge social
norms. This may be an important firt step in
reducing community shaming.