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Gender Equality

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Sexual Rights are Human Rights

Robin Baumgarten (Sister Namibia)--We are doing something extraordinary - something radical - talking about sex and about pleasure. Fifty women coming together for a week to think about our bodies - breasts, arms, mouths, vaginas; about our husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends, lovers. About what we’ve been taught about ourselves since before we could walk, since our first periods arrived and we grew hair on our armpits; about what we’ve been taught about being a ‘good woman’, a ‘good wife’; about what we’ve been taught about how we should - or shouldn’t - experience our sexuality.

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Monday, June 15, 2009

Kadhafi Calls for a ‘Women’s Revolution’

(PANA)--Libyan leader and current chairman of the African Union (AU), Mouammar Kadhafi, has stressed the need for a ‘women’s revolution’ worldwide to correct the false notion of equality between men and women.

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Monday, May 18, 2009

Rural Women Confront Hunger Gap their Way

Rebecca Murray (IPS News)--Three brightly clothed women walk slowly around the fallen, charred trees strewn haphazardly across the blackened clearing, each carrying seashells filled with indigenous rice seed to bury in the rich soil.

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Monday, May 11, 2009

Women’s Working Group on FfD

(WWG)--The Women’s Working Group call for structural, sustainable, gender equitable and rights based responses to the global financial and economic crisis.

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Friday, May 08, 2009

Gambia Hosts AU Gender Experts’ Meeting

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Action on Violence Against Women

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Monday, March 09, 2009

AU on Fight against Gender-Based Violence

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Monday, February 09, 2009

Lawyers and Activists Attend Landmark Meeting

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Monday, January 26, 2009

SOAWR Coalition Book Launch

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Monday, January 12, 2009

Women’s Networks Demand AU Accountability

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Thursday, December 04, 2008

Economic Growth not Benefiting Women

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AU Worried over Gender Disparities

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

After Accra, Some Action

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

ECA Boss Advocates for Gender Equality

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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Women’s Organisations call on African Countries to Ratify Protocol without further delay

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Sudanese and African Women’s Organisations consult on the Summit

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