Articles about United Nations
So much promise, so little change: The efficacy of women?s machineries
26 June 04
Regional relevance: Africa, Zimbabwe
To shut women up, African governments have created gender or women?s ministries, departments, units or desks, which are powerless, resource-less and ideologically unsound machineries. [read more]
Feminists must check the conservatives within
25 April 04
Regional relevance: South Africa
The African Women's Movement must look within for the elements that have thrown a spanner into the wheels of progress. [read more]
African parliament provides a window of opportunity
12 April 04
Regional relevance: Africa, Zimbabwe
Under the leadership of Gertrude Mongella, the former Secretary General of the UN 1995 Fourth Conference on Women, the new African Parliament is ripe to become an important signal of the continent?s commitment to gender equality. [read more]
Reflection alone will not change women?s status
12 April 04
Regional relevance: Africa
African women?s annual trip to New York for the UN Commission on the Status of Women needs to provide more than a space for get-togethers and the sharing of experiences. [read more]
Sustaining the spirit of Beijing or chasing a mirage?
12 April 04
Regional relevance: Africa, Zimbabwe
It?s time again for Africa and the world to take stock of women?s gains during the last decade. Will a new story emerge, or, are women still stuck where they were 10 years ago? [read more]
Swaziland turns a new leaf on the page for gender justice
12 April 04
Regional relevance: Swaziland
The movement of more women into the Parliament and Cabinet after the 2003 elections, sets the stage for more attention to be paid to gender equality and the removal of discriminatory laws. [read more]
Talking to ourselves instead of to the future
12 November 03
Regional relevance: South Africa
Adult women and men now talk to each other about gender violence, but we still do not engage the most important group of all- young people. By so doing, we not only widen the gap between parent and child and between adult and adolescent, we also destroy all hopes of a better tomorrow. [read more]
