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“Making Every Voice Count” is a 55 minute documentary based on the Gender and Media Baseline Study that involved monitoring the media from a gender perspective in 12 Southern African countries in September 2002. Available for online licensing in the following formats: HD,MP4,MOV and FLV.

Akissi Delta est une comédienne qui a su asseoir sa renommée en Côte d’Ivoire et dans la sous-région. Cette femme analphabète a réussi Á  s’imposer sur le petit écran et même le grand écran. Elle est scénariste et réalisatrice d’un célèbre téléfilm ivoirien nommé «Ma famille ». Akissi Delta, avec 26 ans de carrière bien remplie, fait partie de ces actrices qui ont su s’imposer par leur seul talent.

New York, 13 mars : Il est possible d’obtenir l’égalité entre les sexes dans les médias et Á  travers les médias. Pour cela, il faut agir Á  l’interne comme Á  l’externe. C’est ce qui est ressorti jeudi d’une des sessions de la CSW 59 intitulée “Les femmes et les médias: faire avancer un domaine de préoccupation critique, la section J de la déclaration et de la plateforme d’action de BeijingÀ.

RDC, 2 avril: Masisi, un des six territoires de la province du Nord-Kivu Á  l’est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC), est une étendue de terre où les Forces Armées Congolaises de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC) traquent les groupes armés qui y pullulent. La population de ces contrées fuit ces combats et certains ont trouvé refuge au camp de Muheto, ville située Á  près de 100 kilomètres Á  l’ouest de la ville de Goma. Malgré les difficultés du camp et l’angoisse d’avoir été obligés de fuir leurs villages natals, ces populations conservent leur ingéniosité. Un de ces réfugiés vient de mettre sur pied une radio qui émet dans le camp pour distraire et égayer ses semblables. Cette radio de fortune redonne le sourire Á  plus de 2000 familles qui vivent dans le camp de Muheto.

Maputo, 27 de Fevereiro: Que Faya é talentoso como DJ, todos jÁ¡ sabÁ­amos. Mas, o que não se sabia é que ele é também, um Pai talentoso.
No dia 22 de Novembro de 2014, Faya publicou, na sua conta do Facebook, uma fotografia sua em que aparecia com a sua filha carregada a tiracolo, cÁ¡ entre nós, embalada nos seus ombros através da capulana, o mesmo que com a filha Á  “nenecaÀ, este, um gesto habitual entre as mulheres. «Na circunstância, a minha mulher estava ocupada com os seus afazeres e a minha filha não parava de chorar.

A recent United Nations’ (U.N.) Resolution, “Intensifying Global Efforts for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilations,Àurging all countries to enact legislation outlawing female circumcisionor female genital ritual (FGR) signals a disturbingly new frontier inthe polemic surrounding the ancient cultural practice. Never before has the apex global institution lent its imprimatur to a project whose foundation is profoundly muddled in uncertainties and murkiness. That the Resolution received an instantaneous and near-universal acclaim as a necessary protective weapon against supposed assault on the human rights of women is not news. After all, aside from essentially validating extant legislative frameworks in several countries, the proclamation fits seamlessly with decades-long agitations of activists,scholars and media pundits of one stripe or the other. What is absurd À“indeed, the real news À“ is continued neglect of calls for a rethinking of the criminalization fervour currently gripping the world, for a reassessment of the evidence trumpeted by abolitionists as justifcatory of their unbridled interference in what practicing communities revere as a sacred cultural rite. Relying on the premise that claims regarding harmful impact of FGR, the fulcrum upon which eradication forces depend for their activism, cannot be substantiated, this paper argues that prohibitory regimes based thereon, whether at the U.N. or country level, is per se a violation of the human rights of the women purportedly sought to be protected. Human rights (including, in this case, its self-appointed “apostlesÀ), cannot, as a popular Igbo maxim admonishes, become “outsiders who wept louder than the bereaved. ÀThis is the prism from which this paper analyzes the on-going supranational crusade to suppress FGR.

Maputo, 15 de Agosto: Uma das poucas cantoras profissionais de Moçambique, Melita Matsinhe aposta na Aliança entre a arte e o activismo a favor to bem-estar da rapariga Moçambicana.

South Africa, March 2014

South Africa, March 2014