By Sarah | January 17, 2012
AllAfrica.com, 17 January 2012
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) today joined the fight to repeal parts of Lesotho’s discriminatory Chieftainship Act, which only allows the first-born son to succeed to chieftainship, by filing submissions in a landmark case that is due before the country’s Constitutional Court next month. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | September 23, 2011
12 women arrested in Bulawayo on International Day of Peace; Williams and Mahlangu remanded in custody to Mlondlozi Prison
WOZA leaders Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu and 10 other women were arrested in Bulawayo on Wednesday, September 21 while attempting to commemorate the International Day of Peace with hundreds of WOZA women and men. As well as those arrested, over 20 others were injured after being beaten by riot police. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | September 13, 2011
A long, rocky road but the end is nigh
Swaziland Positive Living, Foundation for Social and Economic Justice, Swaziland Rural Women’s Assembly
Written by Awet Sara Yohans
It is a long journey from Manzini to the heart of rural Mahlangatsha; not so because of the distance, but by the unpaved roads and large rocks which make it difficult for our driver to navigate. I am grateful for the lengthy drive. I have utilised this opportunity to reflect on my time in southern Africa (a rare treat since the itinerary leaves little time for introspection). Through the minibus window, as though watching a silent movie, we pass through striking images of the 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 admin | June 3, 2011
Albertina Sisulu who has died aged 92 is one of the truly inspirational and heroic figures in South Africa’s struggle against apartheid, for democracy and rights. ACTSA joins with the people of South Africa in mourning her passing, remembering her qualities, achievements and celebrating her life. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | February 21, 2011
BBC News, 21 February 2011
A military court in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo investigating a case of mass rape has sentenced Lt Col Kibibi Mutware to 20 years in jail. 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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