In 2008 the Southern Africa Development Community's (SADC) Heads of State and Government adopted the SADC Gender and Development Protocol. This Protocol consists of 28 Articles, with specified indicators, designed to promote gender equality by 2015.
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Dakar — A record number of women were sworn in as legislators as Senegal's new parliament was inaugurated on Monday.Sixty-four women now have seats in this West African country's 150-member National Assembly, thanks to a law on gender parity.
Source: African Elections Project
Libya's Parliamentary results released last Tuesday indicates that 32 women were elected from the parties and one an independent candidate, said Samira Massoud, acting president of the Libyan Women's Union (a growing national organization with membership in the thousands).
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The overwhelming approval of a Provisional Constitution for Somalia by the representative body convened for that purpose – a key step toward ending the Horn of Africa country’s long transition to stable governance – was hailed today by United Nations officials.
Mrs. Grace Ayuba was enjoying the shed provided her by a Mango tree, where she was resting to regain her strength with her a local drink, (kunin Zaki), after working in her farm for seven straight hours. She was beginning to get drifted with the soothing relief from the drink when suddenly,
A year and a half after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the fight for women’s rights continues in Egypt as debate cycles through the international media. Within “The Voice and the Veil,” GlobalPost wanted some of those who engage in the fight for women’s rights on a daily basis to lead part of the conversation. To this end, we brought together two generations of Egyptian feminists who have been part of this revolution since the beginning.
Speaking for the first time since her election to the chair of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma told a gathering of the ANC Women's League that she would not be a lackey of South Africa's own interests in her new position.
Nine women in the northern Côte d’Ivoire town of Katiola have been convicted for carrying out female genital mutilation – the first time that a 1998 law banning FGM has been applied.
The Government of Liberia (GOL) through the Ministry of Gender and Development has donated US$50,000 to several women organizations here to fight crime.
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The Namibian High Court has ruled that the human rights of three HIV-positive women were violated when they were coerced into being sterilized while they gave birth, but the judge dismissed claims that the sterilization amounted to discrimination based on their HIV status.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
SOME activists in the country have accused the Constitutional Review Commission, saying they schedule their meetings to collect views without taking into consideration interests of women.
Source: ANGOP
The minister of Family and Women Promotion, Genoveva Lino, Tuesday in Yeosu, South Korea, highlighted the contribution of the African women, particularly Angolans, to the fight against discrimination of females in the continent.
Source: Religious Dispatches
When I started seminary in the late 1980s, liberation theology still was influential. Liberationists' arguments, often based in Christian scripture and theology, so compelled theological discourses that class time in most US seminaries, divinity schools, and schools of theology engaged them, even if only to challenge their validity.
Source: Angola Press
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The Government of Liberia (GOL) through the Ministry of Gender and Development has donated US$50,000 to several women organizations here to fight crime.
Source: African Brains
Wife of the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Mrs. Kadre Desire Ouedraogo, has called for synergy, complementarity, strong partnership and collaboration between the African First Ladies Peace Mission and the Commission for the promotion of continental peace and development.
Source: GhanaWeb
Ms. Dorothy Onny, Director of the Gender Unit of the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs, has announced that Government has developed a National Action Plan to implement the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.
Ms Dorothy Onny, Director of the Gender Unit of the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs, has announced that the Government of Ghana has developed a National Action Plan to implement the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.
That a war crimes court should focus on the victims of war crimes sounds like a simple concept.
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AIDS specialists heard fresh appeals Wednesday to expand assistance for women far beyond a global focus on pregnancy.