Articles about African Women And Child Feature Service
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Editorial note
16 December 11
Welcome to the 22nd edition of the Roadmap to Equality! Tracking progress towards the implementation and ratification of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.
As the curtain comes down on the Seventeen United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP 17) on climate change, while the developed countries... [read more]
As the curtain comes down on the Seventeen United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP 17) on climate change, while the developed countries... [read more]
Editor's Note
01 June 11 | (1) Comment
Gender and media freedom seminars will be held in ten Southern Africa countries over the coming weeks, kicking off with a Facebook and Twitter social networking campaign titled What has gender got to do with media freedom? The seminars will contribute to a draft Addendum to the Windhoek Declaration on Gender and the... [read more]
Arthur Okwemba
04 March 11
In 2002, as multinational and national private companies descended in South Africa to attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) and share their experiences and practices in the global economy, one small organisation was there to take them on, on other fronts. This NGO was Gender Links, which was at... [read more]
Rosemary Okello speaks out
30 August 10
Rosemary Okello, GMDC Advisory Group Member and member of the African Women and Child Feature Service speaks out about the Kenyan Constitution in her article, Women Want Fair Share of Constitution Spoils. [read more]
African Women and Child Feature Service
27 July 10
The African Women and Child Feature Service (AWCFS) website was selected winner of the Not for Profit Category in the 2010 Highway Africa New Media Awards held in Grahamstown, South Africa.
The Judges Comments: The well articulated presentation of women and childrens issues both in design and content, make this a... [read more]
Media - a hard nut to crack for women
03 March 10
Women are yet to make significant inroads into the media 15 years after the Beijing Platform of Action recognised its centrality in advancing women’s rights. Preliminary findings of the 2010 Global Media Monitoring Project conducted by the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) suggests that women... [read more]
UN conference points to meagre gains for women
01 March 10
Regional relevance: International
While the past fifteen years has seen some gains for women in education and political decision-making, women’s sexual and reproductive rights are under threat; violence has increased and the financial crisis is threatening limited economic gains. This is the clear message emerging from non-governmental... [read more]
Gender Links @ Beijing+15, 1-8 March
25 February 10
Gender Links, the Gender and Media Diversity Centre, Gender and Media Southern Africa Network and the African Women and Child Feature Service in collaboration with UNIFEM and the World Bank invite you to join the Beijing Plus 15 cyber dialogues that will be held simultaneously in three chat rooms in French, Spanish... [read more]
GEM Summit News, 12 August 2008
12 August 08
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
Clink. Boom. Screech. Stop in your tracks.Out of the amiable political correctness of empowering widows and paying home-based carers, comes a sudden,jarring dissonance.A representative of JournAIDS, a group of Malawian journalists who specialise on the epidemic, presents his group's support for mandatory HIV testing... [read more]
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