Articles about National Action
Time for an addendum on gender and climate change!
26 April 12
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
Johannesburg: 26 April – Participants to the 2012 Gender Justice and Local Government Summit have urged SADC Heads of State to sign an Addendum to the Protocol on Gender and Development on Climate Change this August when they meet in Maputo, Mozambique.
The Addendum commits governments to acknowledge that... [read more]
The war@home: Findings of the GBV Indicators Research Project in South Africa, Botswana and Mauritius
21 April 12
Regional relevance: Botswana, Mauritius, South Africa
GBV is one of the most common yet unacknowledged and serious human rights violations in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region1. The SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, which aims to halve current levels of GBV by 2015, inspired the GBV Indicators project that aims to establish comprehensive... [read more]
Botswana: State of Emergency call to end violence against women
29 March 12
Regional relevance: Botswana
Roadmap to Equality, Issue 22, December 2011
16 December 11
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
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 may... [read more]
South Africa: Announces new Council on Gender Based Violence
16 December 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
South Africa has shown political will to address gender violence through the formation of a New Council on Gender Based Violence as highlighted by the Ministry of Women, Children and Persons with Disability during the Sixteen Days campaign. [read more]
Key facts on progress in addressing gender based violence in SADC
14 December 11
• Angola and Zambia bring the total to eleven SADC countries that have to adopted specific legislation on domestic violence; Zambia has developed a model Anti-Gender Based Violence Act, 2011.
• The number of SADC countries with GBV legislation is set to rise to 14 with Lesotho, Seychelles and Swaziland next in... [read more]
20 years of 16 days of Activism, how far are we?
25 November 11
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the global Sixteen Days of Activism on gender violence campaign, and 10 years of the annual commemoration in Southern Africa. Each year during Sixteen Days, we stop and ponder achievements and accomplishments, and assess how much further still to go. As we observe a decade of... [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]
International: 50/50 campaign needs to extend to Nobel Prizes!
18 October 11
Regional relevance: International
The recognition of three women in the Nobel Peace Prizes announced earlier this month came as a welcome variation to the long list of male names, but it also begged the question why women so rarely get the prize, and why when they do, they have to share it. All three of these are undoubtedly fighters for peace who... [read more]
Roadmap to Equality, Issue 20, September 2011
07 October 11
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
A major highlight this period is thaton 31 August South Africa became the ninth country to ratify the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. This meansthe instrument will now go into full force because nine out of the 13 signatories (two thirds)have now ratified the Protocol.
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