Collins Mtika MZUZU, Malawi, Dec 29 - Seated on a wooden bench at her Katoto township house in Mzuzu, Grace Mkandawire’s face reflects the traumatic experiences she has endured since her husband’s death in 1998. She looks lost and confused and as she narrates her story there is fear, hatred and resignation that Malawi’s Marital >> Read more
Article: CAMEROON– Profits Were Only a Phone Call Away
Ngala Killian Chimtom YAOUNDÉ, Dec 6 - These are awkward times for the men in the middle in Cameroon's Western Highlands. A profitable niche buying produce cheaply on farms, and supplying farmers with seed and fertiliser at premium prices has been shattered by the sound of a cellphone ringing. MORE >>
News: gender implications of ICTs
ICT Boom for Economy, A Bust for Some Women By Rosebell Kagumire KAMPALA, Nov 25, 2010 (IPS) - The rapid growth of the ICT market in Uganda has been greeted with optimism over its potential to boost the country’s development. But less attention is being paid to the increase in gender based violence due to >> Read more
News: KENYA– A Brand New Constitution, But Can Women Enjoy Land Rights?
Suleiman Mbatiah NAIROBI, Nov 23 - Mary Kimani wishes her husband were still alive. Holding her one-year-old son in one hand and a hoe in the other, she recounts with bitterness how she and her children lost their livelihood to her husband’s family.
News: UN Women’s First Chief Voices Optimism after Being Named to New Post
New York, NY, September 2010 – Ms Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary General of UN Women has announced that she would bring all of her experience and good relations with Heads of State and Government to help fight discrimination and boost opportunities for women and girls worldwide. Michelle Bachelet, the former president of Chile, told UN Radio >> Read more
News: An Uncompromising Woman
By DANIEL BERGNER (NYT) The Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is trying to lift her country — ravaged by war, rape, corruption and hopelessness — by lifting up its women. Read the article
News: United Nations Report Focuses on Global Lot of Women
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR (NYT) Women have made progress in areas like health and education, but they still lag over all, according to the U.N. report, World’s Women 2010. read more
News: Rural Haitian Women Organize for Food Sovereignty and More
"If we rural women can organize ourselves together to form a bloc, we could accomplish a lot of things," says Yvette Michaud, founder of the National Coordinating Committee of Peasant Women (KONAFAP by its Creole acronym). The committee is a first-ever effort to unite, on a national basis, the voices and interests of this large >> Read more
News: U.S. Senate Confirms Nominees for Two Key Positions at USAID
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is pleased to note the confirmation of Donald K. Steinberg as Deputy Administrator and Nancy E. Lindborg as Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance.
News: Michelle Bachelet, New Head of UN Women: Where There Is Poverty, ‘The State Cannot Be Neutral’
The Nation Barbara Crossette | September 27, 2010 The choice of Michelle Bachelet, the former president of Chile, to develop and then head a new and potentially powerful United Nations agency for women may well be the most important and smartest appointment Ban Ki-moon makes in his tenure as UN secretary-general. A socialist, a single >> Read more
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