* The International Bar Association calls for more female lawyers at the International Criminal Court.

* Ethiopia’s ruling party maintains gender quota during  recent elections but gender activists cry foul.

*  and a Zambian farmer and entrepreneur plants a small seed for female small holder farmers.

June 10, 2010

* Congolese women still endure high levels of sexual violence

* Pregnant mothers’ mental health overlooked in South Africa

* and Zambian women networking to gain life skills.

May 24, 2010

* New family law sent back for review in Mali

* More women screened for cancer in Mauritius

* and African feminists oppose a campaign  to “Adopt an African Clitoris”.

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.

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.

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

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.

Credit: Lansana Fofana/IPS.

Apr 13, 2010 - In this podcast you will hear of:

How effort by the Sierra Leonian government to achieve universal primary education, especially for girl children
is being blocked by numerous challenges, amongst them:

* violence in schools
* corporal punishment
*  and insufficient school subsidies and lack of resources for teachers, some of whom have gone without pay for over a year.

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.

Feb 24, 2010 -

* 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.