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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
RSS FeedAfrica: Religious leaders urge partnership with UN to tackle gender-based violence
2007-12-12
Some 60 religious leaders from 18 African countries stressed the need for members of faith-based organizations (FBOs) to partner with the United Nations at all levels to advocate for policy change and resource mobilization for the prevention of HIV a...
Southern Africa: Justice for survivors of marital rape, how far has SADC come ?
Pamela Mhlanga (2007-12-14)
The question of whether marital rape is recognised or not by Southern African Development Community (SADC) governments, as a matter of policy, should be put to rest, says Pamela Mhlanga. International organisations and agreements recognise marital ra...
South Africa: Without a home of my own - I Stories
2007-12-14
I started living with my husband in 1984, and we were in love and were very happy. The problem started after we got married in 2004 when he became ill. In 2005 he started beating me and forcing me to have sex with him even when I told him I was not w...
South Africa: Taking a stand - I Stories
2007-12-14
I am 47 years old, married with children. I have a son and two daughters age 24, 19 and 14. I got married at the age of 19. When I got married I was already working. I started to work in the age of 15. I come from a poor family. My parents drink heav...
Africa: "Women's Rights" still resists africanization
Wandia Njoya (2007-12-06)
The focus of African women activists on gender violence and on women’s rights remains disconcerting. But before I get into the details of why this is so, I would like to highlight the historical figure named Mary Nyanjiru. Nyanjiru entered the local ...
Kenya: Increased political violence against women aspirants
2007-12-06
This year’s 16 days of Activism Against gender based violence will go down in the Kenyan history as the year where women aspirants have suffered violence without any concrete action being taken either by the law enforcement officers or the various po...
Zimbabwe: Zanu PF businessman severely assaults MDC activist
2007-12-06
A Zanu PF businessman severely assaulted an MDC activist in Marondera last week after an MDC rally. Regina Silas had attended a rally by the opposition party at Dhirihori Shopping Center near Marondera town, when Isiah Mpazviriho beat her up, accusin...
Southern Africa: Justice for survivors of marital rape, how far has SADC come ?
Pamela Mhlanga (2007-12-07)
SADC is making progress, albeit fraught with uncertainties, towards a legally binding Gender and Development Protocol scheduled for adoption in 2008. Yet, it is surprising that the current draft of the Gender and Development Protocol excludes marital...
West Africa: Rape and beatings of women 'normal' in Niger
2007-12-07
The news that 70 percent of women in parts of Niger find it normal that their husbands, fathers and brothers regularly beat, rape and humiliate them came as no surprise to human rights experts in Niger. "Women here have been indoctrinated by their fa...
West Africa: Groups call on governments to tackle violence against schoolgirls
2007-12-07
To improve girls’ education, West African governments must adopt national policies addressing all aspects of violence against schoolgirls - who face rape by teachers, verbal abuse by male students and forced early marriage by parents - a grouping of ...
Global: Government tolerance and inaction the greatest cause of violence against women
Hellen Connell (2007-12-07)
Politics must become a safe place for women, says Helen Connell. Violence is an abuse of power and disempowers women of all ages. It affects all societies and is institutionalised in formal and informal political processes and governance structures. ...
Global: Why women's rights…what about men's rights?
Anber Raz (2007-12-07)
Many of us who work in the field of women's rights, when asked what we do for a living will often say we work in human rights. Firstly because women's rights are human rights, and secondly to avoid the inevitable quip which we get in certain setting...
Angola: Activists denounce political apathy towards migrant rape victims
2007-12-07
Human rights activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have accused their government and that of Angola of turning a blind eye to reports of widespread rape and other abuses of DRC migrant workers in neighbouring Angola. “The situation seem...
Sudan: UN alarmed by widespread rape in Mogadishu
2007-12-07
he United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) representative for Somalia on Friday voiced his concern at the increasing number of rape cases in the country's war-torn capital, Mogadishu. "Sexual violence and rape are part of the game now," Christian Bal...
AWDF grants awarded for 16 days campaign
2004-12-09
The world will be marking 16 days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence from November 25th to December 10th 2004. Once again, women's organisations and human rights activists all over the world will come together in their various communities. L...
Grants awarded for fight against HIV/AIDS
2004-12-09
On Monday 1st December 2004, the world marked World AIDS Day. The theme for this year's campaign, which was selected by the United Nations was, "Women, Girls HIV and AIDS". Globally, young women and girls are more susceptible to HIV than men and boy...
*"We Do Not Interfere in Domestic Matters"
Experiences from Uganda in honour of Sylvia Tamale (2004-12-09)
Tributes continue to come in for Dr Sylvia Tamale, the first woman Dean of the Faculty of Law at Makerere University, Uganda. Dr Tamale, an internationally renowned feminist activist and academic was honoured on December 2nd by the women's movement i...
Senegal moves closer to ratification of women's rights protocol
Wildaf press release (2004-12-09)
"The follow-up committee for the ratification and the implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) on the Rights of Women in Africa informed us that the law on the ratification of the Protocol was adopted...
Zimbabwe: Women activists to appeal for domestic violence legislation
2004-12-09
Zimbabwean women activists are to petition parliament on Friday to approve a four-year-old Prevention of Domestic Violence Bill. The activists, frustrated with continued delays in the bill's approval, have chosen the last day of the worldwide campaig...
Tanzania: Violence against girl pupils still rampant
2004-12-09
Several years have passed since Tanzania ratified an International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women (CEDAW). Nothing has been done to incorporate the convention in the country’s domestic laws up to now when the w...
West Africa: Countries wage war on violence against women
2004-12-09
Barely emerging from years of civil conflict, two countries in West Africa are waging a new war – a battle to eradicate all forms of violence against women. Last Thursday, the authorities in Sierra Leone and Liberia joined humanitarian organisations ...
Stopping domestic violence online chat
2004-12-02
Moving Ideas and Amnesty International USA teamed up to host an online chat on domestic violence in the lead up to the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. Visit this web page to read the transcript and find out more about fighting gender vio...
Center for Domestic Violence Prevention programme for 2004
2004-12-02
The Center for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEODVIP) in Uganda has a full schedule of events for 16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women. Email cedovip@raisingvoices.org for a detailed programme....
Oxfam public dialogue on the African women's rights protocol
2004-12-02
On 30 November 2004, to mark the occasion of World AIDS Day and its intersection with the 16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women, Oxfam Great Britain facilitated a Public Dialogue on the African Union Protocol to the African Charter on Hu...
16 Days for Africa to Say No to Gender Violence
Mary Wandia (2004-12-02)
This year's Campaign on Violence Against Women has found encouragement in the African Union's Protocol on the Rights of Women. While 31 countries have signed the Protocol, only five have ratified (Comoros, Rwanda, Libya, Botswana, Namibia and Lesoth...
Seminar to mark 16 days in Ghana highlights gender inequities
2004-12-02
Participants at a seminar organized by the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre have blamed the high numbers of women living with HIV/AIDS on gender inequities and the lack of adequate legislations on women's rights. The seminar, orga...
The voice of a survivor: World AIDS Day and 16 days of activism
2004-12-02
"I am 22 years old. I have one baby boy, who is 6 years old. Some people don't understand what life really is, but I understand it clearly. Life is about what you know and what you want and what you want to do to get the things you want. In life ...
Honouring Sylvia Tamale
Outstanding contributor to the advancement of women's rights (2004-12-02)
Dr Sylvia Tamale, the first woman Dean at The Faculty of Law at Makerere University, Uganda, will be honored on Thursday 2nd December by the women's movement in Uganda for her outstanding contribution to the advancement of women's rights in Africa. ...
Effective partnerships key to combating gender-based violence
2004-11-25
Partnerships between governments, the international system, civil society, the media and private sector offer real solutions to ending gender-based violence, according to speakers at a United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) event to obser...
Calendar of activities in Kenya
2004-11-25
The Coalition on Violence against Women- COVAW (K) is a women's human rights organization that is committed to the eradication of all forms of violence against women and the promotion of women's human rights. She is a registered non-governmental organization that does not make profit and is non-partisan. The coalition works in close collaboration with other like-minded Non-Governmental Organization, Community Based Organizations, Government and Donors....
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