Gender Justice

Johannesburg 22 September: On the eve of SA Heritage Day, UN Women, Gender Links and business partners promoting gender equality today celebrated outstanding young women in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa using technology to advance their enterprises. Ten young women (first, second and third prize in each country, and two joint third prizes in South […]

Date: 22 September 2021 Time: South Africa: 11h00 – 13h00; Uganda & Kenya: 12h00 – 14h00 RSVP: Please fill in the form here. Sign up or login to the Southern Africa Gender Community (SGC) on www.glcop.org.za, click Cyber Dialogues and join Young Women’s Entrepreneurship Challenge Awards or join the ZOOM LINK: https://genderlinks-org-za.zoom.us/j/88631419652  

Johannesburg, 9 August: Women’s rights organisations are calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to provide sex disaggregated data on vaccine roll out in a campaign launched on Women’s Day. A petition signed by 43 Women’s Voice and Leadership partners calls on the president to “provide sex disaggregated data on vaccine roll out and all COVID-19 statistics in line with the national gender […]

Johannesburg, 29 July, The Women’s Voice and Leadership South Africa (WVL-SA) welcomes the progress being made towards rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, but calls for sex disaggregated data to be made available as a matter of urgency. “Sex disaggregation is a central tenant of all data and processes in South Africa,” noted Gender Links special Advisor Colleen Lowe […]

Johannesburg, 31 August: Gender Links and UN Women are calling for young women entrepreneurs between ages 20 and 30 from South Africa ,to share their voices through a competitive challenge on how they can best be supported by private sector and other key stakeholders/partners. Globally to-date there are 5000, companies that have signed on to Women […]

Women call for end to violence, resumption of vaccine roll out Johannesburg, 14 July 2021, The Women’s Voice and Leadership South Africa (WVLSA) project condemns the violence and criminal looting that is ravaging South Africa amid the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. WVLSA calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa to ensure that law and order are restored […]

Johannesburg, 14 July: As many countries in the north start to open up for summer holidays, with lockdown restrictions being eased, South Africa, and most of Africa are going back into harder lockdowns. The reason for these starkly different realities is in large measure due to unequal access to vaccines. With the third wave, driven […]

Johannesburg, 14 July: The COVID-19 pandemic which has been raging across the globe since December 2019 has aggravated gender inequalities. As the majority of care workers, of the poor and those in the informal sector or in precarious work, women bear the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. If the vaccine roll out is to bring […]

Closing Date: 20 May 2021 Synopsis Gender Links seeks a consultant to implement the International Idea Enhancing the Inclusion of Women in Political Participation (WPP) in Africa project in Botswana from from 1 June 2021 to 31 December 2021.  CVs and daily rates must be submitted by 20 May 2021. Background Gender Links is part of the International Idea-led consortium: Enhancing the […]

Introductions by Dr Pinkie Mekgwe (International IDEA); Sara Leigh Elago (Namibia); Chelsea Mujuru (Zimbabwe); Wala Elboushi (Sudan); Hon. Khadija Shaaban Taya (Tanzania); Chikas Kumle (Nigeria) Moderated by the Africa WPP Barometer Editor Colleen Lowe Morna (South Africa) Date: Monday, 28 June 2021 Time: 3:00 to 4:00 pm (SA & Paris time) Venue: Southern Africa Gender Community Sign up […]