Issa G. Shivji (2009) Where is Uhuru?.
Women & gender
RSS FeedSouth Africa: Media can promote women in sport
Lombe Mwambwa
2009-07-02, Issue 440
The media flurry surrounding the Confederation Cup over the past few weeks was a small demonstration of what’s in store for Southern Africa next year when South Africa hosts World Cup 2010. Media is an important part of such an event’s success, as we...
Global: Supporting gender equality in the context of HIV and AIDS
2009-07-03, Issue 440
The European Commission and UNIFEM are embarking on a programme that will be implemented in Rwanda, Kenya, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea and Cambodia. With a total budget of €2,450,353 for three years, the programme will focus on promoting the leadership...
Africa: Africa steps up fight against maternal and child deaths
2009-07-03, Issue 440
Around the world, a woman dies every minute from pregnancy-related causes. Globally, there are more than 500,000 maternal deaths per year, the majority of which are in Africa where in many places the maternal mortality rate (MMR) is as high as 1,000 ...
Sudan: Women's centers reopen in Darfur
2009-07-03, Issue 440
Female internally displaced persons (IDPs) will again be able to learn job skills, take literacy classes and receive awareness programmes on reproductive health after the joint African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) helped reactivate...
West Africa: 10,000 girls to be repatriated to Nigeria
2009-07-04, Issue 440
More than 10, 000 Nigerian girls held captive as sex slaves in Morocco and Libya are to be repatriated, the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora has revealed in a statement. The girls reportedly from Edo State, the southern part of the coun...
East Africa: Uganda to outlaw FGM
2009-07-04, Issue 440
Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, which is rampant among pastoralist tribes in the country's eastern region, the president said in a statement on Friday. "The way God made it, there is no part of a human body that is useless,"...
Women Making Airwaves for Peace
Call for Applications
2009-06-25, Issue 439
Women Making Airwaves for Peace (WMAP) is a five-day seminar that gathers around 30 women community radio broadcasters from the Asia Pacific region. It is a space where participants share their experiences, particularly best practices towards engende...
South Sudan: Women ready to take their place
2009-06-26, Issue 439
When the women of South Sudan welcomed the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005, they were cognizant of the fact that true democracy will be realised only when their human rights are realised. It is a young democracy battling to...
Côte d’Ivoire: Children selling sex, having babies
2009-06-26, Issue 439
The baby was born and 12 days later died on a dilapidated upper floor of the Adjamé market in Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital Abidjan. The mother, Aminata*, is barely 15. She does not know who the father is. Aminata exchanges sex for money – so sh...
DRC: Mass rape in Goma prison
2009-06-26, Issue 439
Twenty female detainees in the central prison in Goma, a large town in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), were raped during a recent riot, officials have said. "Twenty female prisoners were raped on Monday [22 June] night during an atte...
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Women's Voice blog launched
2009-06-19, Issue 438
Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network has the pleasure of announcing the launch of its blog platform, Zimbabwe Women's Voices. The blog will begin on the Constitutional Reform Process and seeks to provide Zimbabwean women and community at larg...
Global: Violence against women: Mandate of special rapporteur must be strengthened
2009-06-19, Issue 438
The mandate of the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences (SRVAW) must be strengthened if the elimination of all forms of violence against women is to become a reality. This was a key recommendat...
South Africa: Quarter of men admit rape, survey finds
2009-06-19, Issue 438
One in four men in South Africa have admitted to rape and many confess to attacking more than one victim, according to a study that exposes the country's endemic culture of sexual violence. Three out of four rapists first attacked while still in thei...
Southern Africa: Call for Contributions “I” Stories: Polygamy Series
2009-06-19, Issue 438
Gender Links is inviting submissions from women and men across Southern Africa who are involved in polygamous relationships. We will select an assortment of these experiences and life stories to be included in a special collection of "I” Stories, tha...
Global: women's groups seek gender equity at summit
2009-06-19, Issue 438
An international coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), mostly comprised of women’s groups, is calling for a "gender equitable" response to the global financial crisis, which is to be debated at a UN summit of world leaders next week. "T...
Zimbabwe: World Bank urged to increase reproductive health funding
2009-06-19, Issue 438
Thirty-three civil organisations from across the world, including a Zimbabwean organisation, have urged the World bank to increase funding for reproductive health and HIV/AIDS in developing countries where the bank manages investments and development...
Gambia: Reaching the FGM/C tipping point
2009-06-19, Issue 438
“In politics and sociology you reach a tipping point and once you’ve reached it, things change,” says Min-whee Kang of the UN Children's Fund. “This is what we’re aiming at to stop female genital mutilation and cutting in The Gambia.” But a strong at...
DRC: Rape as a weapon of war
2009-06-12, Issue 437
Sexual violence is a brutal reality in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo: Tens of thousands of women and children were raped in the region last year alone. In a guest editorial, François Grignon of the International Crisis Group urges the Wes...
Zimbabwe: Girls trade sex for food
2009-06-12, Issue 437
Growing numbers of children in Zimbabwe are turning to prostitution to survive, the charity Save the Children says. The aid agency says increasing poverty is leading girls as young as 12 to sell their bodies for as little as a packet of biscuits. It ...
Global: Financial crisis could force more girls into work
2009-06-12, Issue 437
The financial crisis could force more girls into work as financially squeezed families withdraw their daughters from school to seek jobs, warns the International Labour Organization in a report released on 12 June, World Day Against Child Labour. “Th...
Africa: Africa steps up the fight against maternal and child deaths
2009-06-05, Issue 436
The very survival of women and children in Africa may depend on the newly-launched Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA). According to latest estimates by the African Union (AU), over the next ten years there will...
South Africa: Report shows women migrants continue to live in fear
Romi Sigsworth
2009-06-05, Issue 436
It has been just over a year since the few weeks of seeming madness in May 2008, when xenophobic violence broke out across South Africa, shocking the nation and attracting international condemnation. However, migrant women in South Africa consider th...
Africa: Revitalising underutilised family planning methods
2009-06-05, Issue 436
This series of seven 8-page briefs, all with the title "Revitalizing Underutilized FP Methods", looks at how the ACQUIRE Project (which stands for Access, Quality, and Use in Reproductive Health) integrated various communication strategies to stimula...
Kenya: Painful tradeoffs
Intimate-partner violence and sexual and reproductive health rights in Kenya
2009-06-05, Issue 436
How does intimate-partner violence affect Kenyan women's rights? How can the government, NGOs, and the legal and healthcare systems support abused women? This paper from the Institute of Development Studies explores links between intimate-partner vio...
DRC: 3-year old rape victim dies - UN
2009-06-05, Issue 436
A three-year-old girl has died after being raped by a rebel fighter in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where armed forces are committing increasing numbers of sexual attacks, a United Nations spokeswoman said on Friday....
Uganda: Physician-lawmaker moves to criminalize FGM
2009-06-05, Issue 436
After 500 young women in Uganda endured genital mutilations in the most recent season for the initiation rite, a physician lawmaker here is optimistic about outlawing the practice this year and finding new income for traditional surgeons....
DRC: Mining interests tied to rape impunity
2009-06-05, Issue 436
The period from 1998 to 2003 is known in the Democratic Republic of Congo as The Great War of Africa, Africa's World War and the Second Congo War. Militias and armies from eight neighboring nations plundered the country's eastern provinces in a quest...
Cameroon: Bringing rape out of the shadows
2009-06-05, Issue 436
Talk openly about rape. That is the gist of a new campaign in Cameroon, where according to a study an estimated 432,000 women and girls have been raped in the past 20 years. Some 200 rape survivors gathered on 28 May in the capital Yaoundé, several o...
Malawi: Women’s economic opportunities will curb poverty
Daniel Manyowa
2009-05-29, Issue 435
The recent 29 May polls in Malawi saw the number of women members of Parliament rise from 14% to 22%. About 125 women competed for the 193 seats, with 43 successfully gaining ground. For the first time since independence in 1964, Malawi also has a fe...
Africa: R U Ready 2 Talk? Keep your chats exactly that!
New Campaign for South African girls
2009-05-29, Issue 435
An innovative new campaign was recently launched in Johannesburg, that aims to ensure that young people are empowered to use their cell phones and the Internet for positive self expression. The campaign was launched by Girls’Net, a daughter project o...
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