In January 1998, Singer Rankin, along with other members of the WWF Board of Directors, visited Tanzania. While there, they were introduced to the Udzungwa Mountains Women's Development Project. Started a few years before, this program has grown from an endeavor to introduce fuel-efficient stoves to local women, to a women-based enterprise that includes a restaurant fueled by such stoves and an outreach program that includes helping women learn how to run businesses. Local women are now conse...read more

Over 50 religious, women's rights and human rights groups- from the National Coalition of American Nuns to the Feminist Majority Foundation to BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights, Nigeria-have issued "The Call to Accountability Campaign" to raise public awareness about sexual violence against women in the Catholic church and to hold accountable the individuals and institutional leadership involved or complicit in this problem. For more information on the campaign, and further action steps on how ...read more

Postgraduate Training Fellowships for Women Scientists in Sub-Saharan Africa and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) at Centers of Excellence in the South

The Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade, while acknowledging that his country has achieved some success fighting HIV/AIDS, insists it is far from enough. At the forefront of that battle, Wade considers, are the women of Senegal. "Take any given woman in any given neighbourhood," he said. "If she gathers together a group of ten or twenty women and she talks to them - without fanfare, without drums or trumpets - and explains the problems of AIDS so that it sinks in, then we will make progress....read more

Ugandan Feminism: Political Rhetoric or Reality? discusses the issues involved in constructing feminisms in a global context, while recognising women's diverse cultural backgrounds and local priorities. Focusing on the Ugandan context, the relationships between feminisms at local, national, and international levels are explored.

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