Women's Struggles

Africa: Gender and Media (GEM) Summit and Awards 2010

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
Gender Links, MISA and GEMSA are extending the deadline for submission of the Gender and Media awards 2010 to 3 SEPTEMBER 2010 following the overwhelming response from some countries and a slower response from others. The deadline has been extended i...
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South Africa: Celebrating Herstory

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
Women’s Day is a day when we commemorate a day on which 56 000 ordinary South African women set out on an extraordinary mission. They rose up and challenged the then Apartheid government on the issue of pass laws. Yes, their collective story was hear...
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Mozambique: Encouraging young mothers to stay in school

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
It's time for a quiet tea break at Macomia Seconday School in northern Mozambique but the schoolyard is abuzz with the cries of babies - enough so that one might mistake it for a kindergarten. The babies are being carted around by a group of older bo...
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Africa: African First Ladies’ Organization agrees to take on Maternal, Child Health

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
Ugandan First Lady, Janet Kataha Museveni, today presided over an important session of the meeting of African First Ladies, devoted to the theme of the debate that Heads of State had just concluded on “Promoting Maternal, Infant and Child Health and ...
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Africa: Leaders agree on ways forward on maternal and child health

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
The high-level debate which opened in Kampala, Uganda, yesterday on “Promoting Maternal, Infant and Child Health and Development in Africa, ended this evening with an agreement by Africa’s leaders on an action plan to kick-start the effective impleme...
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Guinea: Women amongst also-rans in presidential elections

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
Celou Dalein Diallo gained a significant advantage over Alpha Condé, his main rival for the Guinean presidency, when a third candidate said he would back Diallo in a second round of voting in August. But what has become of women candidates for high p...
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Africa: African Women’s Leadership Institute

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
AMwA will be holding a West African Sub Regional African Women’s Leadership Institute (AWLI) on the theme, “Building African Women’s Leadership to Address Long-Term Forced Migration”, that is scheduled to take place from 19th – 25th September 2010 in...
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Zimbabwe: ICC must prosecute Mugabe youths' rape campaign

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
The International Criminal Court must probe alleged crimes against humanity after Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s youth militia launched a campaign of rape during 2008 elections, a campaign group says. Witness statements by rape victims, vetted by...
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Africa: Uganda Ratifies the AU Protocol on the Rights of Women

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) coalition joins Women First (the Ugandan Women’s Rights Coalition to welcome and congratulate the Republic of Uganda for depositing its instrument of ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on...
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Zambia: Call for 50% female candidates in poll

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
With women having achieved little in terms of representation in decision-making positions in Zambia, a national women’s lobby group is hoping to change this in the 2011 general elections. While Zambia's electoral process may have built-in obstacles t...
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Ghana: Ignorance on abortion law means death

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
Unsafe abortions account for more than one in 10 women who die in pregnancy in Ghana, according to new research by the US-based Guttmacher Institute, with ignorance of the law and inadequate facilities partly to blame, say health authorities. Aborti...
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Kenya: Focus on fistula

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
It is both preventable and treatable, but obstetric fistula plagues the lives of thousands of women in Kenya every year, leaving them incontinent and ostracized. Here are some reasons why: Information deficit ...
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DRC: Getting away with rape

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
When nine-year-old Jeanne* from North Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was raped by a neighbour, her parents were determined he would not get away with it. With the help of an international organization that provides legal serv...
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Mozambique: New sex workers’ alliance formed

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
Parliamentarians in Mozambique are currently facing a challenge by an advocacy group new to the country's political scene, on an issue most people are unwilling to even talk about - sex work. The newly formed Mozambique chapter of the Pan African Sex...
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Zimbabwe: Southern African Young Women’s Festival (SAYWF)

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and the Youth Empowerment and Transformation Trust (YETT), in collaboration with young women’s networks and formations in Southern Africa, are hosting a Southern African Young Women’s Festival (...
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Zambia: Women welcome equality commission

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
The Zambian National Constitution Conference (NCC) concluded its business recently with the adoption of a clause for the creation of a Gender Equality Commission. This is exciting news for gender activists who did not think the NCC would accept the c...
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Kenya: Living death for poor women sufferers

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
With about 3,000 Kenyan women and girls developing obstetric fistula each year, you might think the government would have a plan to prevent and treat it. Think again. Obstetric fistula is a childbirth injury which results in constant leaking of urine...
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Ghana: Progress on women’s empowerment lauded

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
United Nations development chief Helen Clark has lauded the progress made by Ghana towards women’s empowerment and gender equality, one of the eight social and economic objectives known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that world leaders ha...
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Indian Ocean Islands: Women join forces for political equality

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
"Instead of moaning all the time, why don’t you create your own (political) party?" some men asked Brigitte Rabemanantsoa Rasamoelina, a female politician from Madagascar. She accepted the challenge and in February formed Ampela Mano Politika, a poli...
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Egypt: The problem of female circumcision

Pambazuka: Feminst news feed - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:43
Despite the important achievements so far in the field of women rights and the continuous efforts from both the state and the civil society to protect and promote these rights. Yet some traditional practices that seriously violate women rights still ...
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