Articles about Gender Links Opinion And Commentary Service
Namibia: Students take action to end gender violence on campus
06 April 11 | (1) Comment
Regional relevance: Namibia
University of Namibia students are participating in a range of activities to create awareness on the need to stamp out gender-based violence after research showed that the problem – which has become an acknowledged social challenge in the country – exists at their institution. [read more]
Liberia: Ivorian women struggle to survive in crowded refugee camps
05 April 11
Regional relevance: Africa
After leaving her husband behind to protect their home, Philomene Eholi* recently fled the Ivory Coast with her mother and 11 children. Eholi is one of thousands of Ivorian refugees who have crossed into Liberia and, according to the Women’s Refugee Commission, are receiving scant attention from the international... [read more]
Fungai Machirori
27 March 11 | (1) Comment
The first article I wrote for the Gender Links Opinion and Commentary Service was as a wide-eyed 22-year-old university student doing a year-long internship with a Zimbabwean AIDS service organisation. [read more]
Tafadzwa Muropa
25 March 11
My name is Tafadzwa Roberta Muropa, but most people call me "Taffy" or "Faffy", a nickname for Tafadzwa (which in Shona means we have been pleased or blessed). I was born in 1978 in Harare, Zimbabwe towards the end of the liberation war. My father tells me that curfews during this period were rampant as he used to... [read more]
GL@10: Gender links across the oceans
25 March 11
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
The research and advocacy work of Gender Links came to my attention about seven or eight years ago when the group published its early studies on women’s employment in news companies in Southern Africa. What impressed me was the clear-headedness with which the work seemed to be carried out. The research asked... [read more]
Africa: Let’s make FGM a part of history
15 March 11 | (1) Comment
Regional relevance: Africa
According to the United Nations Population Fund, FGM is practiced in about 28 African countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Tanzania. It has only been outlawed in 15 of these countries and the World Health Organization estimates that as many as 130 million girls and women have undergone... [read more]
Middle East women must seize the moment
11 March 11
Regional relevance: International
All my previous experience of gender and media monitoring, the statistics which show women’s voices are not being used in the media and my knowledge that we still have a long way to go in gender-sensitising our media, has been turned upside down by these incredible women. Suddenly everything seems possible again. [read more]
International Women's Day: No decent work for cross-border traders
07 March 11
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
This week marks 100 years of International Women’s Day with a theme that mentions the need for a pathway to decent work for women. Despite the fact women cross-border traders make huge contributions to African economies, their path to decent work is still strewn with difficulty and danger. [read more]
Fred Katerere
04 March 11
I have been a journalist since 1990 and I have worked in four countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. I have covered politics, business, social and scientific issues affecting some of the region's countries. [read more]
International: What we can learn from Lara Logan
01 March 11
Regional relevance: International
The sexual assault and battery to which South African broadcast journalist Lara Logan was recently subjected in Egypt, and the response by sections of the international media to her horrific ordeal, brings home the fact that much remains to be done in the area of gender-media activism. [read more]
