Articles about Congress
Sexual Violence in African Conflicts
06 December 11
Regional relevance: Africa
Civilians in Africa's conflict zones-particularly women and children, but also men-are often vulnerable to sexual violence, including rape, mutilation, and sexual slavery. This violence is carried out by government security forces and non-state actors, including, rebel groups, militias, and criminal organizations.... [read more]
Madagascar: Women claim a stake in peace and security matters
22 November 11
The Malagasy women came together to dialogue on engagement in peace and security processes and mechanisms in the country at a workshop convened by the Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance cluster led by the Institute of Security Studies and national focal point Federation Pour La Promotion Feminine et Enfantine. [read more]
UNESCO Centres of Excellence colloquium
06 October 11
The journalism and media educators continue to meet at Highway Africa conferences. This year, the educators from Africa and beyond discussed pedagogical methodologies in journalism education, enhancing gender in journalism education and supporting science journalism in Africa. [read more]
Laurentia Golley
05 August 11
My name is Laurentia Geraldine Golley. I hail from a small village in the South of Namibia called Aroab. It is situated about 600km from the capital Windhoek. I completed my primary school at Oosterheim Junior Secondary School. Secondary school was completed at Taben College in Windhoek. [read more]
Southern Africa: What about tweeting for gender justice?
14 February 11
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
Over the past several weeks we’ve seen the power of social media as it helped facilitate the organisation of protests so Egyptians, Yemenis, Serbians, Algerians and others could take to the streets in their numbers and demand political change. [read more]
Of rice and men
09 December 10 | (2) Comments
Regional relevance: South Africa
Multi-millionaire, Kenny Kunene, celebrated his 40th birthday party in style when he hired five models to wear lingerie, cover themselves in body paint, and one model, to lay half-naked with sushi strategically placed over her markedly unpainted body. [read more]
Responsible journalism? Reporting on gender
08 December 10
The South African media has recently exploded with the coverage of the alleged rape of a young woman by three young men in a Johannesburg school. This case serves as a good example of what may or may not be considered responsible journalism. Likewise the recent case of Kenny Kunene eating sushi off of models is yet... [read more]
Madagascar New
07 December 10
The transition government continues its process to resolve the political crisis in Madagascar.
After having organised a national conference in October to gather the opinion of all Malagasy people through their elected representatives, the transition has set up two transition parliaments.
[read more]
Namibia News
07 December 10
Sarry is busy finalising her 16 Days activities. She is tying up all loose ends and is confident that when the campaign kicks off, her machine will be up and running.
The local and regional elections took place from 26 to 27 November and Sarry was very busy advocating around 16 Days and the SADC Protocol targets
[read more]
Activists call on governments and NGOs to speed up march to equality
18 August 10
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
With only five years to go for governments to meet the 28 targets in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development, activists have given a 54% progress rating, down one percent from a baseline study last year. Country scores ranged from 79% in Namibia to 38% in Zimbabwe. [read more]
