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Daily Newsletter, 10 March 2010, B+10
11 March 05
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
As delegates prepare to pack their bags after the 10 year review of the Beijing conference, one of the greatest concerns of those working to advance the rights of women is dwindling resources. [read more]
Daily Newsletter, 9 March 2005
09 March 05
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
The Southern African group yesterday presented a detailed resolution on Women, the Girl Child and HIV/Aids, which advocates strongly for putting women at the centre of prevention, treatment and care programmes. [read more]
Daily Newsletter, 8 March 2005
08 March 05
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
Thirty years after serving as its midwife, a lobby of “the older generation” is meeting informally to caucus for the upgrading of the beleaguered United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) which they say is now more important than ever before. [read more]
Daily Newsletter, 7 March 2005
07 March 05 | (2) Comments
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
Women activists will continue a concerted lobby this week to change the language in the US Resolution on Trafficking, which they say shifts the blame for the worldwide human rights violation onto the shoulders of the very women who are abused in the trade. [read more]
Daily Newsletter, 4 March 2005
04 March 05
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
The adoption by consensus of the draft declaration reaffirming the Beijing Platform for Action hung in the balance late Thursday as the United States denied that it had withdrawn its controversial amendment to the draft text. [read more]
Daily Newsletter, 3 March 2005
03 March 05
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
African women NGOs are the forefront of a campaign to get the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to appoint a Special Rapporteur on Laws that Discriminate Against Women during the ten year review of the Beijing conference. [read more]
Daily Newsletter, 2 March 2005
02 March 05
"Governments have failed to turn the platform into action.” Colleen Lowe Morna addresses the sense of betrayal expressed by many at B+10. [read more]
GEM News, 15 September 2004
15 September 04
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
Southern Africa leaders have been put on notice to deliver on their commitment to achieve 30% women in decision-making positions by the end of 2005. [read more]
GEM News 14 September 2004
14 September 04
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
The first Southern African Gender and Media summit opened in Johannesburg on Sunday, bringing together over 180 media practitioners, trainers, researchers, media regulatory authorities, NGOs and activists from sub-Saharan Africa and as far afield as India, the Netherlands and New Zealand. [read more]
