THE 16 days of activism against gender-based violence (GBV) kicked off with women - and a handful of men - marching down Independence Avenue on Friday to demonstrate their frustration over the unrelenting violence against women and children in the country.
An Egyptian blogger who sparked controversy last week by posting a photo of herself naked online has also launched a campaign calling on men to don the Islamic headscarf.
As a young girl, Garmar Murphy was forced into a child soldier’s life, serving as a sexual plaything for Liberian rebels between battles — a tragic norm in the country’s savage conflict.
Source: Gender Links
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the global Sixteen Days of Activism on gender violence campaign, and 10 years of the annual commemoration in Southern Africa. Each year during Sixteen Days, we stop and ponder achievements and accomplishments, and assess how much further still to go.
Voting began slowly on Monday in Congo's second-post war elections, held in the vast and volatile Central African nation despite fears logistical problems would delay them and irregularities undermine the results.
Al Shabaab rebels banned some U.N. and international aid agencies from working in Somalia on Monday and began seizing and looting some of their offices in southern and central areas of the country, the Islamist group and aid sources said.
The forthcoming parliament, which the Egyptian nation is looking forward to as a first step on a thorny road to democracy, is likely to have poor female representation. Women running in the elections on party lists complain that they have been placed at the bottom of the lists, which means hardly any chance at winning.
For the past years, the Ghana’s enlightenment movement have shown that rational choices are essential to how Africans distinguish and argue about their culture in relation to their progress.
Gender responsive budgeting becomes important when seen in the background of unpaid but important care work done by women, say delegates to an international meet on aid effectiveness in this South Korean city.
Futures Without Violence is honoring 16 individuals and organizations for their innovative projects that deepen the link between promoting women’s health and ending gender based violence (GBV). These advocates are being saluted for their ground-breaking work in GBV health education and intervention
As several countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) elect bodies to write new constitutions, women are looking to expand their rights through legislation.
After a thin harvest, Rudo Mangwere, 32, a farmer in Chirumhanzu district, some 200km southwest of Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, has resorted to selling wild honey by the roadside to beat hunger. She is one of just over a million rural Zimbabweans who will struggle to feed themselves for the next four months.
They are the mothers, teachers, cleaners, caregivers, cooks, nurses, entrepreneurs, vendors and cross-border traders. The list of women's contribution to society and the country's economy is endless yet in most cases unrecognised or even ignored. Worse still, their loved ones barter them.
Since it launched in 1997, the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women has distributed more than 78 million dollars to 339 projects around the world, but even these resources fall far short, meeting less than five percent of demand.
WOMEN and human rights activists throughout the world have begun a 16-day campaign to promote awareness about violence against women and girls.
The minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Zainab Maina, has described violence against women as potent obstacles to the advancement of women and violation of their fundamental human rights.
Source: IPS
BUSAN, South Korea, Nov 27, 2011 (IPS) - Gender responsive budgeting becomes important when seen in the background of unpaid but important care work done by women, say delegates to an international meet on aid effectiveness in this South Korean city.
Source: The Citizen
Musoma — Like the proverbial beggar who can't afford the luxury of being a chooser, Agnes Martin Koyanga was compelled to grab a job opportunity that conservative people regard inferior and unsuitable for women.
Source: allAfrica.com
They are the mothers, teachers, cleaners, caregivers, cooks, nurses, entrepreneurs, vendors and cross-border traders. The list of women's contribution to society and the country's economy is endless yet in most cases unrecognised or even ignored. Worse still, their loved ones barter them.
Source: Daily Monitor
On Friday, November 25, I wore a white ribbon in support of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. So did my boss, Australia's Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd. So did Australian men from all walks of life. In doing so, we joined the world's largest movement of men working to end men's violence against women.