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Zambia launches campaign to end gender-based violence

afrol News, 30 October - A new campaign in Zambia backed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has kicked off, calling for an end to gender-based violence, the second biggest scourge in the nation, following HIV and AIDS, according to the country's leader.

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African countries conclude gender and climate change training

afrol News, 19 October - Delegates from 26 African countries, plus Canada, Jamaica and Philippines, today in Addis Ababa concluded a three-day sensitisation training on gender and climate change, resolving to put necessary pressure on political leaders and African lead negotiators to integrate gender issues in climate change negotiations ahead of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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Stakeholders discuss post-crisis reproductive health needs of populations

afrol News, 28 September - Health officials, many from countries either in or recovering from long-running crises, are meeting at a United Nations forum in Granada, Spain, to find ways to meet the neglected sexual and reproductive health needs of people during and immediately after crisis situations.

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Report calls for HIV-sensitive laws and policing to combat AIDS

afrol News, 23 September - Violence against women, the transition from war to peace and the criminalisation of drug use and homosexuality are among the political, economic and social factors driving the HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to a United Nations-backed report released yesterday.

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Forum promises new action on women’s health and rights

afrol News, 4 September - The Global Partners in Action forum put governments and international donors on notice today that advocates for women’s health and rights will now be speaking more frankly and pressing more strongly for speedy action, investment and an end to gender-based discrimination.

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» 02.09.2009 - Global women’s forum make claim on economic stimulus funds
» 27.08.2009 - SA lawyer appointed UN rights expert on violence against women
» 25.08.2009 - AU-UN Dafur mission donate supplies to female prison
» 23.07.2009 - Harsh sentence for abusive Swazi lover
» 21.07.2009 - Activists urge health professionals to halt FGM
» 26.06.2009 - 10, 000 girls to be repatriated to Nigeria
» 21.11.2008 - Rwanda's attainment of MDGs still bleak
» 17.11.2008 - African symposium focus on women's role in agriculture
» 09.10.2008 - IFAD funds poverty alleviating project in Senegal
» 18.09.2008 - Women to run Rwanda parliament
» 07.08.2008 - Women on top of SADC agenda
» 19.06.2008 - Namibia reaches 30 percent women MP target
» 12.06.2008 - FGM reason to get asylum in US
» 11.06.2008 - Threatening population boom for Egypt
» 06.06.2008 - Parents detained over daughters' FGM in Gambia
» 14.04.2008 - Madonna's case set for ruling
» 26.11.2007 - Mozambique: Respecting sex work
» 05.11.2007 - Zambian First Lady urges women to demand safe sex
» 24.10.2007 - Rwanda tops gender equity
» 23.10.2007 - Mozambican parliament ignores domestic violence
» 08.08.2007 - Southern Africa: Gender activists urge leaders to bite bullet
» 20.07.2007 - Women to be "speedily dealt with" at Ghana courts
» 26.06.2007 - Somaliland now centre for illegal female cutting
» 26.06.2007 - First Mauritian govt budget to target women
» 11.06.2007 - Safe abortions may soon be legal in Mozambique
» 03.05.2007 - Battle over sexual offences bill in Mauritius
» 11.04.2007 - South Africa sets pace for regional gender equality
» 05.04.2007 - Mozambique celebrates its women heroes
» 05.04.2007 - Uganda legalises extra-marital sex
» 04.04.2007 - Gender quotas win the day in Lesotho
» 28.03.2007 - Senegal guarantees gender balance in legislative polls
» 15.03.2007 - Disappointment over women's share of Lesotho MPs
» 12.03.2007 - 42 Gambian sex workers jailed
» 08.03.2007 - South Africa launches action plan against gender violence
» 13.02.2007 - Slow progress stopping FGM in Mali
» 13.02.2007 - Gambia child rape gives life sentence
» 15.12.2006 - SA ruling party disowns whip over sex scandal
» 01.12.2006 - Gambia pounces on prostitutes
» 28.11.2006 - Nigeria women raped by police and army
» 22.11.2006 - Botswana army rolls out carpet for women
» 14.11.2006 - South Africa legalises same-sex weddings
» 10.11.2006 - Mauritian women sick of rape, incest, violence
» 19.10.2006 - Zim women face tough career or mothering decision
» 18.10.2006 - Male-ruled Lesotho hosts many women role models
» 15.09.2006 - Guinea-Bissau to ban female genital mutilation
» 06.09.2006 - Ghana MPs want tougher penalties for female genital cutting
» 04.05.2006 - Women preachers appointed in Morocco
» 10.04.2006 - Unions to increase Congolese women's part-take in politics
» 24.03.2006 - Namibia considers legalising prostitution
» 08.03.2006 - "Violence against women in Zimbabwe increases"
» 29.11.2005 - Malawi reviews marriage, divorce laws
» 09.11.2005 - Islam united to stop female genital mutilation
» 09.11.2005 - Namibia urged to decriminalise sex workers
» 03.05.2005 - Malawi gender activists told not to fight men
» 13.04.2005 - "Women are a lucrative commodity in Equatorial Guinea," NGO
» 18.03.2005 - Church of Nigeria "not to ordinate women"
» 08.03.2005 - Algeria union promotes women's rights
» 26.01.2005 - Togo's working women want more influence
» 24.01.2005 - Illegal abortions with alarming consequences in Malawi
» 11.01.2005 - Sexist stereotypes cause "rural exodus" in Algeria
» 22.11.2004 - Princess born in Lesotho; still no heir
» 15.11.2004 - Female mutilation Benin's main human rights problem
» 21.10.2004 - South Africans disapprove of homosexuals, abortion
» 02.09.2004 - Rwanda women ex-combatants seek AU peacekeeping role
» 13.08.2004 - SMS for better women rights in Africa
» 23.06.2004 - Niger government addresses gender gap
» 09.03.2004 - Women's development highlighted in Djibouti
» 10.02.2004 - Nigeria adopts anti-Female Genital Mutilation day
» 17.11.2003 - Rwandan women legislators start revolution from above
» 21.07.2003 - African women granted more rights
» 20.06.2003 - Rwandan women key to reconstruction

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