Health

By John Namkwahe Arusha, 27 November: Coming from a poor family, Sarah* from Sekei in Arusha, Tanzania, this year dropped out of school due to pregnancy. “It was difficult to […]

I was working for an NGO called ‘Aides, Infos, Liberte, Espoir et solidarite’ (AILES) when I joined training at Gender Links. I did not have much knowledge and only knew […]

By Jane Changwanda, Chichiri, 27 November: It’s month end when most shoppers are loaded with cash but in Agnes Bauti`s* shopping basket, a resident of Mangochi, a resort town in […]

This report on progress on the Beijing Platform of Action finds three broad trends influencing the incremental progress towards women’s equality. Firstly, the majority of governments are turning words into […]

This is a summary of a larger document and will discuss the main issues contained in the Platform for Action from Beijing 1995. The critical areas include women and poverty, […]

A chart depicting the gains of those MDGs that are linked to gender such as the elimination of poverty and hunger and universal primary education.

Passados três anos da legalização do aborto seguro, através da Lei nº 35/2014 de 31 de Dezembro, que aprova o Código Penal, as mulheres que, por alguma razão, necessitam desses […]

The intended outcomes of the ASRH&R framework strategy will benefit the adolescent population of the country as well as family and service providers.

This booklet is a summary of the key findings of a study on teen pregnancy. The findings are congruent with past and current literature on teen pregnancies in South Africa, […]

This audit provides a picture of the region with its diverse legislative and policy landscape. There are strong legislative frameworks with regard to Gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV but GBV […]