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It has now been ten years since the launch of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The goals, which include targets to move toward ending hunger and the spread of HIV and AIDS, were embraced by many in the development community and civil society, including in southern Africa. However, ten years on, many African countries are not much closer to reaching the 2015 targets than they were at the turn of the century. At the same time, there have been many notable achievements - and some terrible failures - in creating awareness and legislation around the MDG targets.
As world leaders meet in New York to accelerate MDG progress at the 10-year point, Gender Links will be taking stock of the situation in southern Africa and shining a critical light on some of the key issues in the region.
Gender Links will host a debate and discussion: MDGs @ 10 -- Still missing the gender mark? on Tuesday 21 September from 15h00-17h00. For more information or to take part click here.
IPS (Inter Press Service news agency) in collaboration with GL, has produced a magazine for the MDG summit. Download the MDG issue of TerraViva. .
The Gender Links Opinion and Commentary Service will be producing a series of topical articles around the MDG Summit. The Service provides mainstream media with fresh perspectives on the news that affects the everyday lives of women and men. This month we provide an opportunity for editors to access exclusive commentary on news and current events around the theme of the MDGs and Africa. For more information or to commission an article, please contact Danny Glenwright: editor@genderlinks.org.za
Malawi elected its first female vice president, South Africa women’s groups launched the Red Light Campaign to say no to human trafficking, and gender quotas in Lesotho have ensured it has the highest proportion of women in local government in all of southern Africa. [read more]
Lawmakers, activists and world leaders are meeting in New York this week to discuss ways to accelerate the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in time to meet the 2015 targets. They will surely note the many gaps in programming and legislation around MDG work, especially in Africa. [read more]
In a part of the world where engagement and marriage are momentous occasions and a cornerstone of adulthood, the union of two men in Malawi last December, however, created an uproar that made headlines around the world. [read more]
With only five years remaining until governments are to meet the targets set out by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the sub-Saharan Africa region continues to have the highest poverty rates in the world, with millions of people living on less than US$1 per day. [read more]
After she became a mother just before her 15th birthday, Diana Ricardo* was forced to drop out of school and give up her dreams of a brighter future. [read more]
Many efforts by development partners in Africa have been directed at constitutional reforms, public sector reform, electoral reforms, structural adjustment programmes, economic recovery, peace and security, crisis prevention – the list is long. [read more]
It is mid-morning and the workday is underway. People are moving in all directions, going about their daily chores. But it is mostly women who move the fastest, many of them carrying water through the impoverished and overcrowded streets. [read more]
It has now been ten years since the launch of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The goals, which include targets to move toward ending hunger and the spread of HIV and AIDS, were embraced by many in the development community and civil society, including in southern Africa. However, ten years on, many African countries are not much closer to reaching the 2015 targets than they were at the turn of the century. At the same time, there have been many notable achievements - and some terrible failures - in creating awareness and legislation around the MDG targets.
