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As Madagascar gears up for local elections tomorrow every indication is that women’s representation is likely to decline as there are no female candidates fielded in the major cities where […]

Maputo: 15 de Outubro 2019: A Plataforma de Observação Eleitoral Conjunta, Sala da Paz, manifestou a sua preocupação com existência de casos de algumas irregularidades no processo de votação das […]

By: Graça Maria– Maputo: 27th August 2019: Decorre desde ontem em Maputo, a VI Cimeira Nacional de Boas Práticas sobre a Implementação do Protocolo da SADC sobre Gênero e Desenvolvimento […]

By: Graça Maria- Mozambique: August 6 was an important milestone for Mozambicans in the country’s final peacemaking process, with the signing of the 3rd Peace and Reconciliation Agreement, an act […]

By Graça Maria, Maputo, 09 May: Data from the Demographic and Health Survey indicate that in Mozambique, 14% of women between the ages of 20 and 24 were married before […]

Under the banner, “2015 yes we can, 50/50 yes we must: Woman you can, together we must!À faith based organisations pledged to take on the 50/50 campaign within its structures. This is one of the outcomes of a strategic communications capacity building workshop held for faith based organisations and the Alliance network in Zimbabwe from 26 À“ 28 November 2012 in Harare.

Hitting the airwaves just in time for 16 Days of Activism and World AIDS Day, Mahlabathe Speaks is a 13-part serial radio drama highlighting how HIV/AIDS and Gender Based Violence (GBV) are linked, in a way that is entertaining and understandable to the mostly rural target audiences.

Patriarchal norms and attitudes including those that excuse or legitimate the use of violence are driving the alarming rates of gender based violence (GBV) in South Africa. This is one of the topline findings of the GBV indicators research carried out in Gauteng, Limpopo, KwaZulu Natal and Western Cape provinces of South Africa (SA) by Gender Links (GL) between 2010 and 2012.

Gender Links Mauritius Office will launch the key findings of the GBV indicators research on 29 November 2012. Gender Links invites you to join an internet campaign to end GBV in Mauritius from 30th November on three radio channels (Radio Mauritius, Kool FM and FM Music) every hour as from 20 – 28 November 2012.

The Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance focal networks have launched the regional 2012 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer along with the country editions for 2012. This is part of sharing findings from the barometer as well as strengthening institutional mechanisms.

In just a few weeks Banyana Banyana, the women’s football team in South Africa, head off to London to compete for Olympic gold. It is a moment of great national pride; only two African women’s teams are among the 12 nations competing, all of who have beat out strong competitors on the long road to qualification.

The Portfolio Committee of Women, Children and People with Disabilities are up in arms. They deplore the continuing exclusion of people with disabilities from the formal employment sector despite commitments by government and business to aggressively empower people with disabilities and put them to work in the economy.