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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Nigeria: WRAPA Solicits Media Collaboration
Women Right Advancement Protection Alternative (WRAPA), an NGO, has called for media collaboration to strengthen women’s participation in politics. The call was made Tuesday in Abuja by Jennifer Shipley, former Prime Minister of New Zealand....
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Kenya: But They Never Killed My Spirit
Last year, as she walked to her home, parliamentary candidate Flora Igoki Terah was attacked and tortured by a gang of five men. Terah's case is one of several case studies highlighted in Amnesty International's 2008 report on the state of the...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Africa: Gender Parity Group Works to Close the Continent's Gender Gap
Top female and male leaders from across the continent have launched an Africa Gender Parity Group at the World Economic Forum on Africa. The group of business, government, media, academic and civil society decision-makers are collaborating on...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Africa: Women Parliamentarians Lead Major Changes in African Politics
In light of growing evidence of the central role women play in a country’s development, many African governments have implemented quotas to boost the number of women parliamentarians. The phenomenon dovetails with similar initiatives to...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Southern Africa: Ground-Breaking Gender Protocol Signed
Gender activists breathed a sigh of relief when a long-delayed gender protocol was signed at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit this weekend. The protocol calls for 50 percent representation by women at all levels of...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
AFRICA: SADC leaders must adopt gender protocol
The third Gender and Media (GEM) summit ended in Johannesburg yesterday, Tuesday, 12 August 2008, with a call for the adoption of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development that includes strong provisions for achieving gender balance and...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Uganda: Museveni Blasts MP Nakawuki
President Yoweri Museveni has attacked Busiro East MP Susan Nakawuki (FDC) as a young and inexperienced politician who cannot effectively represent her electorate in the Parliament. To read the full article, please visit the New Vision's...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Guinea: Guinean Women Seek More Representation in Polity
Guinean women, under the auspices of the Women's Association for Change (CFC), have called for better representation in the country's political and social affairs. In a document which they plan to submit to Guinean Premier Kabinet Komara, they...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Mozambique: Emancipation Must Be More Than Mere Statistics
Mozambique believes that women's emancipation is of key importance, but it must be handled in such a way that it empowers women, rather than simply making the statistics look good, said the country's First Lady, Maria da Luz Guebuza, in...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Africa: Progress 15 Years After the World Women Conference in Beijing
The Africa regional review of Beijing +15 focused on progress in the 12 thematic areas, and was drawn from a survey conducted by the UN Economic Commission for Africa with responses from 41 of the 53 African countries. The review noted that...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
African Union: calls to protect the rights of women and children
African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) said incidents of violence against women and children in armed conflicts continued unabated in many parts of Africa. AU Commission Gender and Development Directorate presented its report at the AUPSC...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Africa: Women's involvement in African politics vital to protecting their rights
Female representation in government and legislative bodies in sub-Saharan Africa is growing but more women must take political leadership roles in their countries to ensure that laws and conventions protecting their rights are implemented,...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Clinton Tells African Leaders Economies Would Fail Without Women’s Toil
Hillary Clinton’s speech was met with silence from the male-dominated envoys at the African Union as she criticized the continents aging autocrats. The mood changed when the U.S. Secretary of State turned her attention to women. “The women...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
NDI: Women’s Coalition Calls for More Inclusive Constitution
When South Sudan became the world’s newest country on July 9, it joined the community of nations with a new constitution adopted by the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly in an eight-hour session on July 6. Now it must work to develop a...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Women must be central to global aid efforts
In Africa, as in the rest of the world, women's progress is inextricably linked to community, national and global prosperity. Because of this, women need to be central to global aid efforts. Not only in the worst of circumstances, such as...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Africa: Role of women on climate change not taken seriously
African leaders have been criticised for not taking the issues of climate change and women seriously after the African First Ladies Forum on Climate Change failed to draw the participation of first ladies on the continent. Dr Aminu Zakari of the...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
IPU: Africa- Global MPs Vow to Prioritise Maternal, Child Healthcare
5 April 2012 - Delegates at the 126th Assembly of the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Kampala, Uganda have asked parliamentary institutions in the world to prioritise matters of maternal and child health. In the resolution passed,...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
NDI: Sub-Saharan Africa- Fomunyoh Testifies to Senate on Entrenched African Leadership
20 April 2012 - Entrenched and often autocratic one-man rule is causing a “democracy deficit” and impeding political development in many African countries, Christopher Fomunyoh, senior associate and regional director for Central and West...
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