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The Gender Links (GL) Opinion and Commentary Service provides mainstream media with fresh perspectives on everyday news.
Initiated in 2003, the Service aims to produce ten opinion pieces each month from writers across Africa on topical news items. The articles are uploaded onto the GMDC website for online viewing and sent via the GL list - serve. The pieces are also sent to editors in the region and beyond for republishing in their newspapers and other media outlets.
This service provides an opportunity for contributers to speak their mind on a variety of relevant and often controversial subjects.
To view articles please scroll below or for specific search terms, click here
If you are interested in contributing to English service or publishing any of the articles, contact Saeanna Chingamuka at editor@genderlinks.org.za. Contact Bayano Valy at lusophone@genderlinks.org.za if you are interested in Portuguese service and Marie - Annick Savripene at francophone@genderlinks.org.za for French service.
*When publishing articles from the Gender Links Opinion and Commentary Service, the Service must be cited.
All women who dare to be themselves and to challenge the injustices that continue to hold back more than half of Africa?s population will surely be lined up and conferred by their fellow country persons with the title of ?worst woman of the year?. [read more]
Governments and the global partners must allocate more and more resources to addressing the plight of Africa?s women, children and the poor in the face of increasing abject poverty, HIV and AIDS and marginalisation. [read more]
Ten years after the Beijing Conference on Women with the advent of better interconnectivity, deregulation and liberalization of telecom monopolies, the question of women?s inclusion in statistical data remains either marginal or invisible. The age-old assumption that the benefits of the information age will somehow... [read more]
How do women even begin to gain equality if they cannot control their own sexuality and bodies? Women should be able to freely exercise choices about who they want to be, what they want to look like, and who they want to love or not love. [read more]
The recent detention of 28 women and the children they had just given birth to at the Harare Central Hospital for failure to pay hospital user fees, illustrates how despite all the women?s right and human right?s activism that has taken place in Zimbabwe, poor, black women still seem to have no one on their side. [read more]
The peace promise holds out new promises to women who have borne the brunt of the country?s 21-year-old conflict. But if history is anything to go by, gender justice may fall by the wayside when the arms of war are finally laid down. [read more]
To shut women up, African governments have created gender or women?s ministries, departments, units or desks, which are powerless, resource-less and ideologically unsound machineries. [read more]
When the Minister of Finance and Vice Prime Minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnath, recently presented the country?s national budget, the event can truly be described as a budget presented by a man for men. Women, who comprise over 50 percent of the population, had no part in the design of the country?s economic... [read more]
