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How Technology is Being Used to Perpetrate Violence Against Women – And to Fight it
13 July 11
Regional relevance: International
Information and communications technologies (ICTs) like the internet and mobile phones are a double-edged sword - they can be used by abusers to deepen their control and by survivors of violence to connect to help and by women's rights defenders to inform, denounce and strategise to end violence. This briefing... [read more]
Community Media Trust and Gender
07 July 11
Regional relevance: Africa
Community Media Trust (CMT), a not-for-profit media production company, has produced educational ision in the fields of health, HIV/AIDS, education, gender based violence and other human rights issues since 1998. This case study highlights the role the media can play in combating gender based violence and... [read more]
Realising the right to health in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after 60 years: addressing the reproductive health rights of women living with HIV in Southern Africa
05 July 11
Regional relevance: Regional
This study seeks to provide an overview of the evolution of reproductive health rights, to outline the obligations of States under international law, and to link women’s reproductive health rights to HIV. It highlights a number of pertinent issues such as pregnancy and discrimination, control over fertility,... [read more]
Using Gender to Transform Media Education in Journalism Training Curriculum at Tertiary Level
04 July 11
Higher education can play a critical role in helping to transform and define societies in Africa. As the Association for African Universities notes in its module on how gender can be used to transform curriculum: “Higher education is one of the most important institutions responsible for re-thinking and... [read more]
The impact of the Protocol on the rights of women in Africa on violence against women in six selected Southern African countries: An advocacy tool
01 July 11
Regional relevance: Regional
This advocacy tool presents the findings of research on adherence to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Women’s Protocol or Protocol) by six Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries: Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. The... [read more]
Caveats in doing fatherhood research
30 June 11
Regional relevance: Regional
Traditionally, academic research on families has focused on mothers or children; only recently have researchers become concerned with testing specific hypotheses about fathers. Similarly, most government-sponsored, policy-oriented family research has focused on mothers rather than fathers, even when men were present... [read more]
Masculinity and male gender identity in advertising
30 June 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
This is a research paper by a journalism student at Stellenbosch University. The essay offers a critical discussion of masculinity and male gender identity in South African advertising. This is done by, firstly, looking at how masculinity or - more correctly - masculinities are defined and understood. Secondly, this... [read more]
Masculinities and multiple-sexual-partners in KwaZulu-Natal: The making and unmaking of isoka
27 June 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
This paper examines one dominant element of masculinities worldwide - the high value placed on men's "success" with women. In southern Africa, where HIV infection rates are typically one in four, sexual networks characterised by multiple concurrent sexual partners are said to be an important factor driving the AIDS... [read more]
Killing a Virus With Stones?
21 June 11
Regional relevance: Africa
This research report is the result of a process to which many people have contributed. This includes all the women and men who were willing to speak with the research teams, some of whom are survivors of sexual harassment and sexual violence. We salute their courage and dedicate this work to them.
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Building Sustainable Centres of Excellence in Journalism Education: The need for quality journalism education in Africa
18 June 11
Regional relevance: Africa
The most promising journalism education institutions in Africa are supported by UNESCO to become Centres of Excellence in journalism education. UNESCO contributes towards the strengthening of the capacities of these centers to offer high quality journalism education programs for aspiring and working journalists.... [read more]
