Our resources section is where we make available useful resources such as studies, reports  from the United Nations, Civil Society, NGOs, Governments, Academic Institutions and other sources related to women and specially women in Africa and other important documents such as copies of the Maputo Protocol and UNSCR 1325. 

We have been able to gather together important and useful information while at the same time fostering information sharing among other organizations working for women’s rights.

It ranges from Women, Peace and Security; Political Participation; Economic Empowerment, Violence Against Women to HIV/AIDS & Reproductive and so on.

Author: Kristin Palitza
How can non-governmental organisations (NGOs) tackle social issues such as HIV, gender equality and violence in rural African communities?

Source: Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) and Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR)
This report is the first coming out of Zimbabwe focusing particularly on politically motivated rape; the aim of the study was to provide a valid and reliable description of cases of politically motivated rape.

'We are Young African women activists and feminists from various countries who gathered in Accra, Ghana on 20-23 November 2010 for the Regional Consultation and Training on Gender, Economic and Environmental Justice convened by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) and Third World Network-Africa.

 Author: Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre
 Sexual violence, mostly targeting women and girls, is a widespread and systematic feature of many wars and conflicts both in history and across the contemporary world.

Source: Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Country: Uganda
After 20 years of displacement and war, the people of northern Uganda are leaving camps set up for internally displaced people and building new lives.

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