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Gender Justice for African Women
Publication date: 11 March 2010
As the world marks International Women's Day 2010, a new non-governmental initiative, the Working Party on Gender Justice in the African Human ...
AfA Announces Vacancies at its Lagos Office
Publication date: 11 February 2010
Alliances for Africa (AfA) seeks the services of a Programmes Intern and an experienced Fundraising & Development Officer who will work with he...
Grace Ushang and the Indecent Dressing Bill
Publication date: 12 October 2009
Grace Ushang was a young Nigerian woman who had every right to expect a bright future. Now she is dead merely because she was female. On the day t...
Women in Governance and Decision-Making Positions: Advocating for Change in Cross River State, South-South Nigeria.
Publication date: 31 July 2009
- Gender Audit meeting in Calabar, Cross River State
Alliances for Africa (AfA), as part of its initiative on 'Women in Governance & Decision Making: Advocating for Change in Cross River State...
Women, Elections and the Media - Are Women Their Own Worst Enemy?
Publication date: 30 October 2008
It has been spoken about so much, voices have been raised, protests made about women issues in the media and society as a whole. A lot has been ach...
There's Nothing Wrong With Feminism
Publication date: 17 September 2008
Binta S. Mohammed is a notable poet and novelist based in Kano. Her two works, Contours of Life, a collection of poems, and A Clean Break, a novel...
'In Nigeria, Pregnant Women Die Due to Government Negligence'
Publication date: 17 September 2008
If as you left home this morning, you saw a pregnant woman, do you know it is very likely she could be dead by the time you return in the evening? ...
PAN AFRICAN WOMEN’S DAY
Publication date: 7 August 2008
The African Union commemorated the Pan African Women's Day on 31st July 2008. The African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping, on the day co...
Nigerian Women Demand 50% Affirmative Action
Publication date: 5 June 2008
The national women leader of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP), Hajiya Inna Maryam Ciroma, led a delegation of zonal and state women leaders, opin...
Is poverty the problem? No, it is the wealth!
Publication date: 15 May 2008
If you read the economic and development co-operation literature, you will clearly note a call for pro-poor policies. But one should now question: ...
AfA's Brainstorming Session with Political Parties in Imo State (South East Nigeria).
Publication date: 2 May 2008
In Nigeria, the electoral process places a great burden on women since membership in a party is a prerequisite for election into parliament. Member...
All Liberians must play their part in anti-rape campaign, says UN envoy
Publication date: 14 March 2008
The United Nations has joined forces with the Liberian Government and civil society groups in a campaign in the southeast of the West African count...
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2008
Publication date: 1 March 2008
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2008: SHAPING PROGRESS ABOUT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY International Women's Day has been observed since in t...
ECOWAS Gender Centre Holds Disparities Workshop
Publication date: 8 October 2007
The ECOWAS Gender Development Centre (EGDC), in a bid to create a viable synergy between men and women of the region with the view of eliminating ...
Africa's First Elected Female Head of State to be Honoured at 2007 Africare Dinner
Publication date: 29 August 2007
This coming fall, more than 2,000 international, government, and corporate leaders will gather at the Hilton Washington Hotel on the evening of Thu...
Vulnerable Women As Face of HIV/Aids
Publication date: 17 August 2007
Women necessarily take the centre stage in any attempt at halting the spread of HIV/AIDS for obvious reasons. They are the most affected when issue...
UN Skips Gender Perspective in Climate Change
Publication date: 13 August 2007
When the United Nations concluded a two-day debate Thursday on the potential devastation from climate change, it covered a lot of territory: defore...
UN-backed meeting aims to foster ways to eradicate female genital mutilation
Publication date: 6 August 2007
Experts from around the world – including representatives from United Nations agencies, religious and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), ...
MDG - UN Requires $110bn to Get Children in School By 2015
Publication date: 30 July 2007
The British Department for International Development (DFID) says the world will need 110 billion U.S. dollars to meet UN target of getting all chil...
Mass Male Circumcision - What Will It Mean for Women?
Publication date: 24 July 2007
Women's voices have gone largely unheard in the debate on male circumcision as an HIV prevention method, but informal discussions with women re...
Exclusive Bank for Women in Kenya
Publication date: 17 July 2007
Kenya's Equity Bank is set to open, for the first time, three branches that will be exclusively for women. And with it, the bank rolled out a S...
AU Summit Opens With Calls for Africa Government
Publication date: 2 July 2007
The Ninth Africa Union heads of state summit opened in Accra, Ghana, yesterday with renewed calls for African political union. Outgoing AU Commis...
Gender violence outlawed in Sierra Leone
Publication date: 25 June 2007
Sierra Leonean women can now rest, and enjoy the fruits of their long walk to freedom. The country's parliament took the bull by the horns to e...
Ghana Appoints First Female Chief Judge
Publication date: 12 June 2007
Justice F. K Kpegah, the law lord who has been holding the Judiciary, since the death of former Chief Justice. Acquah has offered his shoulders for...
50 (Liberian) Women for NEC Elections Education
Publication date: 8 June 2007
About 50 Liberian women are expected to participate in a two-day gender workshop organised by the National Elections Commission (NEC) and the Unit...
Report of Election Observation in Imo State South East Nigeria
Publication date: 30 April 2007
Alliances for Africa's official report on the recently concluded Governorship, Houses of Representatives/Assembly and Presidential elections in...
AU invites civil society to elect Economic Council Assembly representatives in Angola
Publication date: 30 April 2007
Angolan civil society organisations (CSOs) have been invited by the Africa Union (AU) commission to hold national elections to chose their represen...
Women's Human Rights
Publication date: 13 December 2006
Millions of women throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivation of, and attacks against, their fundamental human rights for no othe...
World AIDS Day 2006: : Ideology Trumps Action as Epidemic Worsens
Publication date: 29 November 2006
New York, November 29, 2006) – Twenty-five years after AIDS was first identified, programs to fight the disease continue to be undermined by ...
Nigeria: Government fails women and girls raped by police and security forces
Publication date: 28 November 2006
'There were three men. I have pain even today... they used my daughter too. She is 12 years old... They also raped my sister. Another man raped...