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2010-02-04, Issue 468
A recent fatwa banning female genital mutilation/cutting in Mauritania will help reduce the practice only if religious leaders take the message to the people, scholars and anti-FGM/C activists say....
Mauritius: Women demand greater political voice
2010-02-05, Issue 468
Women human rights activists in Mauritius, under the umbrella Women in Politics (WIP), have asked political parties to field women as one-third of their candidates in the next general elections. They said one woman should be among the three candidate...
Global: EU faults U.N. for slowdown in gender empowerment
2010-02-05, Issue 468
Against the backdrop of continued widespread gender discrimination worldwide, the European Union (EU) has urged Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to "urgently" speed up the creation of the proposed new U.N. agency for women....
Kenya: Victory for anti-abortion lobby
2010-02-05, Issue 468
The threat by influential Christian leaders to mobilise a vote against Kenya's draft constitution if it does not explicitly prevent any expansion of abortion rights appears to have succeeded....
Globl: Women | Tools | Technology: Building opportunities & economic power
2010-02-05, Issue 468
Join Ashoka's Changemakers, ExxonMobil, and The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) in this global Women | Tools | Technology: Building Opportunities & Economic Power challenge! Share your innovations which enable women to access and us...
Burundi: Female ex-combatants picking up the pieces
2010-02-05, Issue 468
By age 15, Annonciata Nduwimana was an accomplished fighter for Burundi's opposition Forces nationales de liberation (FNL) and knew how to kill in battle. "My father was killed, accused of sheltering rebels. We [her mother and two elder brothers] the...
Burkina Faso: Dying from discrimination
2010-02-05, Issue 468
Too many obstacles still stand between women and safe childbirth in Burkina Faso, with discrimination against women at the heart of the problem, Amnesty International says. Females' low social status fuels maternal deaths, with early marriage and wom...
Freedom of Information and Women’s Rights in Africa
FEMNET/UNESCO book launch
2010-01-28, Issue 467
The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) with support from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has launched a book titled: Freedom of Information and Women’s Rights in Africa. The book i...
Mozambique: First woman speaker a step for equality
Fred Katerere
2010-01-28, Issue 467
Mozambique is continuing to see a steady stream of changes when it come to upping the gender mix in the country's political landscape. The most recent victory was the unanimous election of Veronica Macamo, a member of the ruling Frelimo party, who ma...
Women taking their place on the pitch
Ingrid Hoaes
2010-01-29, Issue 467
The current football fervour resulting from the Africa Cup of Nations is just a small sample of what is to come when South Africa hosts the World Cup this coming June. Young footballers across the continent are watching and cheering on their local he...
Sudan: Vulnerable girls risk sexual exploitation on Juba's streets
2010-01-29, Issue 467
In a large market in Juba, the regional capital of Southern Sudan, young women spend long afternoons lounging on beds in sweltering iron sheet rooms, waiting for men. One girl, no more than 17, wearing a tight tee-shirt with the words "I love beer" e...
Kenya: Documenting sexual violence
2010-01-29, Issue 467
The testimonies of women who survived sexual violence during post-election conflict in 2008 should be heard, say advocates. The magnitude of the crimes committed against women because of their gender must be recorded and prosecuted to prevent such vi...
Global: Campbell Fellowship for women scholar-practitioners from developing nations
2010-01-22, Issue 466
One six-month fellowship is available for a female social scientist from a developing nation, either pre- or post-doctoral, whose work addresses women’s economic and social empowerment in that nation. The goal of the program is twofold: to advance th...
2010 Prize for women's creativity in rural life
WWWSF
2010-01-22, Issue 466
WWSF invites nominations for its 2010 Prize for women's creativity in rural life. The aim of the prize is to draw international attention to women's contributions to sustainable development, household food security and peace, as well gain recognition...
Zambia: Scarcely room for women in male-dominated politics
2010-01-22, Issue 466
Charity Mwansa, a former minister and member of parliament, knows just exactly what being one of the very few female politicians in Zambia means. When she left politics it had nothing to with not being able to do the work and instead had everything t...
Ghana: Quietly extending options to women
2010-01-22, Issue 466
Non-medical abortions are frequent in Ghana, where abortion is illegal. Yet, as more people witness the suffering and deaths of women who've attempted unsafe abortions, more international organisations are trying to provide birth control, or to explo...
Mauritania: Muslim imams initiate rare ban on female circumcision
2010-01-22, Issue 466
Human rights campaigners who have been struggling for years to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM) in West Africa got a boost this week as news emerged that a group of Muslim clerics and scholars in Mauritania had declared a fatwa, or religious...
Global: Feminist practice of technology
2010-01-22, Issue 466
Feminist Practice of Technology is a growing idea that gives perspectives on technology. It poses questions and defines issues relating to technology from feminist perspectives, taking into account various women's realities, women's relationships wit...
Uganda: Strengthening the use of ICTs to combat VAW
WOUGNET Discusses a national strategy
2010-01-22, Issue 466
In collaboration with the Association for Progressive Communication Women’s Network Support Programme (APC WNSP), Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) organized a national strategy workshop on 22nd and 23rd September 2009 at NobView Hotel, Ntinda. The m...
Gambia: Police declare zero tolerance for gender-based violence
2010-01-15, Issue 465
Gambia's Assistant Superintendent of Police Yahya Fadera has declared there will be zero tolerance for gender-based violence, in particular rape and sexual assault against women and girls, warning that perpetrators will have no place to hide....
Zimbabwe: Electing to rape: Sexual terror in Mugabe's Zimbabwe
2010-01-15, Issue 465
In the weeks immediately following the June 2008 presidential elections in Zimbabwe, AIDS-Free World received an urgent call from a Harare-based organization working on behalf of women and girls. They believed that hundreds and possibly thousands of ...
Kenya: Clash over abortion rights in new constitution
2010-01-15, Issue 465
A harmonised draft constitution has now been handed over to Kenya's Parliamentary Select Committee. Influential Christian leaders are warning that the question of abortion could derail the constitutional review process....
Global: Women & International Criminal Law
Special issue of the International Criminal Law Review - Call for papers
2010-01-08, Issue 464
The International Criminal Law Review invites submissions for its 2010 special issue entitled “Women and International Criminal Law,” to be guest-edited by Diane Marie Amann, University of California, Davis, School of Law; Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Temple ...
South Sudan: Women's eyes on the collective prize
2010-01-08, Issue 464
January marks the fifth anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which ended a bitter north-south civil war in Sudan. With important elections scheduled for April, women are debating and fighting for an expanded role in the new institut...
Ethiopia: Plans afoot to boost maternal health
2010-01-08, Issue 464
United Nations agencies and Ethiopian health officials have developed a comprehensive two-year work plan to boost maternal and newborn health and survival in the Horn of Africa nation, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced....
Cote d'Ivoire: President pardons 100 female prisoners
2010-01-08, Issue 464
The President of Cote d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo has signed a pardon decree to free about 100 female prisoners in the West African country....
Global: Financing for Development and Women Rights: a critical review
2010-01-08, Issue 464
This publication from WIDE reviews the current debates about development, as well as the background for this new aid architecture, and analyses the international frameworks for financing for development and women rights, as well as governments´ commi...
Malawi: Women fight harmful cultural practices
2010-01-08, Issue 464
An experience which Belita Simpokolwe went through in December last year remains deeply etched in her memory. "Sometimes I fail to concentrate in class when these things come back to my mind," laments 13-year-old Simpokolwe, a grade six pupil at Kawa...
Africa: Achieving fifty percent women in decision making by 2015
Urgent action needed
2009-12-18, Issue 462
Gender activists from East and Southern Africa have expressed shock at the backward trends in the 50/50 campaign in recent elections. The African Union (AU) has set a goal of achieving parity between women and men in decision-making by 2020, while t...
Africa: Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) youth essay contest
2009-12-17, Issue 462
The Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) Youth Essay Contest, “We can change...” s for young people between the ages of 18-25 to share their ideas about what is the most important issues affecting women’s lives in their countries and what solutions the...
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