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afrol News, 15 February - With not a single conviction resulting from the thousands of sexual violence cases reported last year in Sierra Leone, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is hoping the media can be a power ally in spotlighting how these offences go unpunished in the West African nation.

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» 04.02.2010 - SA’s Zuma confirms fathering a child
» 22.01.2010 - $20 million loan to support smallholder agribusiness in Zambia
» 13.01.2010 - Egypt varsity bans surgical masks in exams hall
» 04.01.2010 - Egyptian women to appeal niqab ban
» 16.12.2009 - Speaker calls for law to protect women against harassment
» 15.12.2009 - Kenya urged to adopt marriage bill
» 14.12.2009 - Uganda hails anti-Female Genital Mutilation bill
» 11.12.2009 - 30 Christian women arrested in Eritrea
» 25.11.2009 - Zimbabwe losing its women and children
» 23.11.2009 - Women researchers still scarce, UNESCO
» 30.10.2009 - Zambia launches campaign to end gender-based violence
» 19.10.2009 - African countries conclude gender and climate change training
» 28.09.2009 - Stakeholders discuss post-crisis reproductive health needs of populations
» 23.09.2009 - Report calls for HIV-sensitive laws and policing to combat AIDS
» 04.09.2009 - Forum promises new action on women’s health and rights
» 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
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» 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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