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17 May 2010
credit: IRIN
May 17, 2010 – In this podcast:
* Fewer female candidates elected in Mauritius
* Hope fades for recognition of gay rights in Zimbabwe
* Women still at the margins of peace negotiations
* and one feminist’s quest to help Malawian women speak openly about their sexuality.
11 May 2010
Photo Credit: IPS
May 10, 2010 – In this podcast:
* A winning vote for women in Sudan’s controversial multiparty elections;
* Zambian women’s struggle for constitutional reforms;
* Domestic worker rights legislated but not protected in South Africa.
30 Apr 2010
18 year old Rachel Manda from Malawi hopes to avoid early marriage through education. Credit:Deborah Sprowson/IPS
Apr 29, 2010 – In this podcast you will hear about:
* Indiscriminate attacks on women by Al-Shabaab in southern Somali
* Civil society concerns that a new agriculture fund will not reach women
* Controversy over Nigerian senator’s marriage to a 13-year-old child
* Poverty forces Malawian girls out of school
20 Apr 2010
IPS/ Zack Paddorf
Apr 20, 2010 – In this podcast you will hear of:
* A new Women’s Health Commission aimed at combating infant and maternal mortality in West Africa.
*A continued struggle by Sudanese women to gain a foot in the door, during the country’s multiparty elections.
* and a new anthology giving voice to “othered” women in South Africa.
15 Mar 2010
Credit: IPS/Brian Moonga
Mar 15, 2010 - In this Podcast you will hear of:
* A new book on commercial sex work in East Africa
* The need for a more gender based HIV prevention campaign
* And listen to a short excerpt of an interview with Rwandas’ female opposition party leader – Victoire Ingabire.
04 Mar 2010
IPS/Brian Moonga
Mar. 4, 2010 – In this podcast you will hear of:
* Efforts by Mauritian women to gain equal representation in the country’s upcoming elections later this year.
* A women’s account of domestic violence in Sierra Leone
* and the Launch of a new program by UNAIDS to reduce HIV infection amongst women worldwide.
26 Feb 2010
Feb 24, 2010 – In this Podcast you will hear about
* The ongoing fight against Female Genital Mutilation [ FGM] in Uganda
* A call by Zambian Activists for their government to implement the SADC protocol on Gender and Development
* And an increase in cases of gender based sexual violence in Sierra Leone.
18 Feb 2010
Feb 18, 2009 – In this podcast you will hear of:
* A second attempt by Ugandan Activists who want their law makers to abolish polygamy.
* An open discussion on the relevance of Polygamy in South Africa
and small initiative by Lesotho women to create employment for themselves.
15 Feb 2010
Credit: Foundation of Human Rights
Feb 15, 2010 – In this Podcast you will hear of:
Hurdles still standing in the way of South African women in accessing justice and eliminating sexual harassment in the work place.
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Agriculture is key to women’s livelihoods in rural West Africa and to the survival of the national economies. But despite women’s crucial work on the farms women’s rights to land ownership, control and access to land continues to be neglected. The importance of African women farmers has been long recognized in international development since the [...]
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