Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji (ed) (2008) China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective. 
Women & gender
RSS FeedGlobal: Play a part in protecting maternal health and ending fistula
2008-05-08
Some 250 million years ago, all of the earth’s land mass formed one supercontinent, Pangea. On May 10, organizers of Pangea Day, aim to restore connections between far-flung places through the power of story telling, film, and new technologies--allow...
Liberia: Advancing women’s rights critical to development
2008-05-08
The top United Nations official in Liberia has called for furthering the rights of women as a crucial element in advancing peace and development in the West African nation that is recovering from a decade-long civil war....
DRC: The Brutal Truth: A filmmaker confronts the Rapists and finds no remorse
2008-05-08
The Greatest Silence is an apt title for the film this article reviews, since it keeps under wraps one of the most common crimes, so common that people just shrug their shoulders, sometimes with the words: it is human nature. The filmmaker, Lisa F. J...
Global: Gender inequality becoming worse - and better
2008-04-25
The only way that the poor, particularly women, will benefit from all the efforts that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has put into improving global trade is to ensure that power inequalities are redressed. This is the...
Southern Africa: Gender activists call for decisive action on Zimbabwe
2008-04-25
Southern African gender activists have called on their leaders and the international community to "act decisively" in ending the Zimbabwean crisis which threatens all peace loving citizens, especially women and children. They have specifically urged ...
Africa: Globalization pushes more women into informal economy
2008-04-25
It emerged at a forum by CSOs to herald the UNCTAD conference that Sub-Saharan Africa in particular is experiencing a growing informalization of labour relations with dire consequences for women. The character of employment in countries in the region...
Global: Lack of critical health care for most women and children
2008-04-18
Leading global health experts, policymakers and parliamentarians are convening in Cape Town from 17th to 19th April at the Countdown to 2015 conference to address the urgent need for accelerated progress to reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths. ...
Global: New film series takes on culture of silence on violence against women
2008-04-18
Fourteen years ago, in April 1994, news got out that ethnic violence in Kigali was spreading throughout Rwanda. Violence against women is the theme of Women on the Frontline, a series of seven films being broadcast for the first time on the 18th of A...
Liberia: UN-backed anti-rape campaign reaches country’s north
2008-04-18
A United Nations-backed campaign to stamp out rape in Liberia, the highest reported crime in the West African country as it recovers from a devastating civil war, has been extended to the north with a senior UN official calling for full implementatio...
Global: Women face bias worldwide - UN
2008-04-11
Women are discriminated against in almost every country around the world, a UN-commissioned report says. It says that this is despite the fact that 185 UN member states pledged to outlaw laws favouring men by 2005. It adds that 70% of the world's poo...
Sudan: Five years on, sexual violence still rife in Darfur
2008-04-09
Five years into the Darfur conflict, women and girls need protection from rape and brutal attacks still being committed by government forces and armed groups throughout Darfur, Human Rights Watch said in a new report. Neither government security forc...
Southern Africa: Women are changing the face of migration - new study
2008-04-10
A new study "Gender Remittances and Development: Preliminary Findings from Selected SADC Countries " focuses on female migration from and between six SADC countries, namely Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, principally to...
DRC: Campaign says 'No' to sexual violence
2008-04-11
In mid-March hundreds of Congolese women, men and girls raised banners that read, Together, let us say No to the silence, for the dignity of the Congolese and Enough sexual violence!. With faces of determination, the women, men and girls waved these ...
Somalia: Raising awareness against FGM in Puntland
2008-04-11
Halima [not her real name], a mother of five girls, shudders whenever she remembers how she suffered after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM/Cutting), a practice still widespread in Somalia. "I will not put my daughters through it," Halima to...
SOAWR campaign update
Equality Now (2008-04-11)
This is the quarterly update on campaigns towards popularization, ratification, domestication and implementation of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. It reports on work done during January to March 2008 and includes information on the status of ratification and upcoming events that could offer opportunities for further action towards the objectives of the campaign. ...
North Africa: Morocco seeks to criminalise violence against women
2008-04-04
Moroccan officials announced last week that work is in progress on a draft bill outlawing domestic violence. The ministries of Social Development, Education and Islamic Affairs will also partner on a campaign aimed at fostering a culture of gender eq...
Mauritania: Moves towards political empowerment for women
2008-04-04
Mauritania is often held up as a beacon when it comes to the proportion of women elected to political office - a 20 percent minimum quota was instituted in 2006 - but experts told IRIN once in power many women are still sidelined from taking importan...
CAR: Struggling to undo the damage of sexual violence
2008-04-04
The Monam group of rape survivors in the northern town of Bossangoa in the Central African Republic (CAR) does what it can to keep going, but morale is low and money tight. "We've been left to fend for ourselves. We get little help from outside. Many...
Ghana: Response to “thriving” child sex industry too weak
2008-03-28
By early evening the corridors of the Soldier Bar brothel in a busy commercial area of Accra were already filled with long queues of young girls and their clients, when heavily armed police stormed in, arresting all 160 of the girls. The targets of t...
2008 Medico-Legal convening in response to sexual violence
Jessica Kizungu (2008-03-20)
CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Venue: The Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya Dates: 2nd June - 5th June 2008 Sexual violence is a profound human rights violation and public health problem. Patriarchy, anti-woman attitudes and rape myths fuel t...
Global: Women key to Millennium Development Goals
2008-03-21
Efforts to meet international development goals must focus on empowering women, Deputy UN Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said in a speech delivered at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. "Empowering women is not just an end in itself; i...
DRC: UNFPA joins in campaign against sexual violence
2008-03-21
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has joined forces with civil society groups, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the Government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to launch a nationwide public awareness campaign aimed at r...
Algeria: Women cite problems with implementation of new family code
2008-03-21
Three years after Algeria's family code was revised, women are looking back with regret on their initial enthusiasm for the change. What appears to have been a well-intended effort to protect women and children's rights has inadvertently caused many ...
Ghana: Queen Mothers hold court on abortion
2008-03-14
Traditional female leaders in Ghana are beginning to open their communal gatherings to discussions of women's legal rights to abortion. The country has one of the most liberal abortion laws in the continent, but women are dying in ignorance of it....
Global: Fund to end gender violence puts donors to the test
2008-03-12
The UN "Trust Fund to End Violence against Women" has risen significantly over the last year: from 3.5 million dollars in 2006 to over 15 million dollars in 2007. The UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), which manages the Trust Fund on behalf of t...
Global: Women call for greater role in conflict resolution
2008-03-12
Leading female power-brokers from around the world have appealed for a larger political role for women in solving conflicts and poverty. Over 50 participants, including leaders, foreign ministers, lawmakers, first ladies and top European Union and U....
Global: COHRE statement on International Women's Day
2008-03-13
Governments must take active steps to protect the rights of women to housing and land, and integrate these protections into their strategies to ameliorate the negative effects of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to the Geneva-based Centre on H...
DRC: Support the women of Congo
2008-03-14
The suffering of the women in the Congo, particularly in the east of the country has long reached biblical proportions, yet and still the silence continues throughout the global community. Hundreds of thousands of women have been violently raped, mut...
Zambia: Make defilement non-bailable offence, urges Women’s Lobby
2008-03-14
The Zambia National Women’s Lobby Group (ZNWLG), men’s wing has called on the Government to stiffen the law against defilement and make the offence non-bailable. ZNWLG men network coordinator, Isaiah Munali, said this in an interview in Lusaka recent...
Global: Global Employment Trends for Women 2008
2008-03-14
More women are working than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Off...
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