By Campaigns | August 10, 2011
BBC News, 9 August
Nearly one third of Tanzanian girls experience sexual violence before they turn 18, a Unicef survey has found. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Campaigns | July 25, 2011
Angola Monitor, July 2011
Peace is good but not yet good enough
Following many years of travel to Angola from 1999 on, a recent return trip after five years’ absence showed how much has changed – and how much hasn’t. I spent two weeks working with rural communities in three provinces to discuss the effects of climate change on their environment and livelihoods. In the process I was exposed to what post-war development in Angola means for ordinary Angolans. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Campaigns | July 21, 2011
UN Press Release, Nairobi/Johannesburg, 7 July 2011
Sub-Saharan Africa advances on many Millennium Development Goals, but still faces tough challenges
Gains in health and education, but urgent progress needed on child and maternal deaths, nutrition and gender equality, UN report says Read the rest of this entry »
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By Campaigns | July 7, 2011
The Guardian, 6 July
More than half of working women in the world, 600 million, are trapped in insecure jobs without legal protection, according to the first flagship report of the new agency UN Women. A similar number do not have even basic protection against domestic violence, it finds, while sexual assault has become a hallmark of modern conflict. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | July 1, 2011
IPS, 30 June
When the United Nations inaugurated a landmark special agency for women last January, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon set an initial target of 500 million dollars as the proposed annual budget for the new gender-empowered body.
But nearly six months later, the voluntary funding for U.N. Women (UNW) from the 192 member states has remained painfully slow. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | June 20, 2011
Guardian Online, 14 June 2011
The price of womanhood came brutally to Odette, born in a wartorn country often dubbed “the rape capital of the world”.
The 18-year-old from Minova recalls the day that members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), came to her village in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and scarred her life for ever. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | March 2, 2011
UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1 March 2011
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed deep concern Tuesday about the continuing illegal detention and reported ill-treatment of 45 members of civil society in Zimbabwe, who have allegedly been charged with treason for discussing events in Egypt and Tunisia. She also called for their speedy release. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | February 8, 2011
A women’s conference in Addis Ababa aimed to move gender issues from the margins to the forefront of debate in Africa
Elissa Jobson, Guardian.co.uk
“We know that the African Union summit is still very masculine but we are trying to bring in the voices of women,” said Gertrude Mongella, former president of the Pan-African parliament, explaining the rationale behind the shadow summit organised by the Gender is my Agenda Campaign (Gimac) in Addis Ababa on 24-26 January. A difficult proposition in a forum where, at the very highest level, there is only one female representative, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Info | January 4, 2011
The United Nations made history today as UN Women, the UN agency dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, has officially begun its work. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | December 2, 2010
By Victoria Dove Dimandja and Jose Musau Kalanda, It must stop campaign
The Congolese people have endured Africa’s longest and deadliest war. The scramble for Congo’s enormous mineral wealth has fuelled a conflict which has claimed the lives of more than 6 million people since 1996, and ongoing mass rapes. This is the worst humanitarian crisis and the world’s deadliest conflict since World War II, yet the media has given it little attention, and much of the world remains uninformed. Read the rest of this entry »
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