Economic Justice, Education and Training

My name is Nomsa  I stay Ga-Mashashane, Mohlonong. I was married in the Mabotja family from 2007. Things were fine between me and my husband until 2013. In 2013 he […]

Campaign for Female Education (Camfed) in Malawi has indicated that although various organizations were coming up with interventions to help the girl child proceed with education, mindset and poverty were still hampering the process of uplifting girls’ education.

Windhoek – Namibia has scrapped examination fees for pupils sitting for junior and senior secondary school certificates and it would be effective until 2016, Education Minister Katrina Hanse-Himarwa has said.

Four papers focusing on gender, poverty and inequality received considerable attention, Wednesday, November 4, 2015, at the 10th African Economic Conference in Kinshasa, as they highlighted constraints and proposed solutions regarding women’s financial inclusion and empowerment, as well as to their access to land.

Mulanje – The Mulanje Chapter of the Adventists Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Malawi says access to clean safe water is one issue that needs serious consideration as it increases gender imbalance and unfairness on access to the right to economic development.

Maputo, 14 de Novembro: No PaÁ­s, as autoridades sanitÁ¡rias declaram guerra contra os cancros do colo do útero, da mama e da próstata, tendo Á  cabeça, a esposa do Presidente da República, Maria da Luz Guebuza, patrona da iniciativa.

Leading women’s organisation, the Business Women’s Association (BWA) is set to release the results of its 2012 edition of the annual South African Women in Leadership Census sponsored by Nedbank and the National Empowerment fund. The Census results are coming at a time when there are calls for gender diversity to become a pre-requisite for listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE).

The 2012 SADC Barometer shows that education is generally a success story for gender equality in the region. However, the difference between the empirical score and citizen perception score underlines many qualitative challenges such as gender biases in curriculum and GBV in schools.

Adolescent girls in Zambia face frequent sexual violence and harassment at school, researchers from Cornell Law School’s Avon Global Centre for Women and Justice, the Cornell International Human Rights Clinic, and Women and Law in Southern Africa-Zambia said in a report released early this October.

The problems of teenage pregnancy arise from individual, family and societal factors, including, but not limited to, culture, religion, moral values and beliefs, education and economic circumstances, and a lack of support structures.

The latest “trend” from institutions of higher learning is that students and lecturers are exchanging a lot more than knowledge and information. It is ‘alleged’ by some students that lecturers are soliciting sexual favours from students in exchange for better academic pass marks in their respective courses.

The Alliance Pietermaritzburg Agency for Christian Social Awareness (PACSA) and University of Pretoria in partnership with Gender Links held a one day meeting from 18 – 19 April 2012 with church leaders to expose them the sub-regional, regional and international legal instruments in place