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KENYA: Lucy Mugure:

KENYA: Lucy Mugure: "I do not want my children to bring up their children here"

africa » kenya » nairobi
IRIN
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Lucy Mugure, 38, is a single mother of five and a resident of the sprawling Mathare slums. Mugure brews a type of illicit liquor, popularly known as...
editors, choice, poverty, children, women, family, health, education
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GLOBAL: Women want a bigger pi...

GLOBAL: Women want a bigger piece of the funding pie

africa » kenya » nairobi
PlusNews
Friday, July 13, 2007
After burning the midnight oil for many weeks while preparing a US$50 million gender-based project proposal to lay before the Global Fund to Fight...
regional, women, rights, funding, money, project, ngo, aid, development
(29 views)
Gambia observes World Populati...

Gambia observes World Population Day - Maternal death at 730 per 100,000 live births

africa » gambia
The Daily Observer Newspaper
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Vice-President Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy has disclosed that the country’s maternal mortality has declined from 1,050 deaths per 100,000 live births in...
events, population, day, women, mothers, children, mortality
(31 views)
Speaker FJC Reechoes Govt. Com...

Speaker FJC Reechoes Govt. Commitment to Women’s, Child Rights

africa » gambia
The Point
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Honourable Fatoumatta Jahumpa-Ceesay, the Speaker of the National Assembly, has expressed Gambia government’s commitment to reaching higher moral...
events, women, children, rights, workshop, seminar
(23 views)
YWAWTCL Poised to End Child La...

YWAWTCL Poised to End Child Labour, Women Trafficking

africa » gambia » banjul
The Point
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Members of Young Women Against Women Trafficking and Child Labour (YWAGTCL) last Friday took part in a march past that started from Primet Street in...
events, women, child, labour, trafficking
(29 views)
GLOBAL: Global forum for women...

GLOBAL: Global forum for women with HIV

africa » kenya » nairobi
PlusNews
Friday, July 06, 2007
AIDS does not only travel with truckers along African highways; it flies business class with men in dark suits, crawls into marriages and lurks in...
regional, women, hiv, aids, forum, meeting, conference, gathering, health, poverty, gender
(43 views)
SWAZILAND: Empowering women to...

SWAZILAND: Empowering women to beat abuse

africa » swaziland » mbabane
IRIN
Thursday, July 05, 2007
MBABANEMost Swazi women who face domestic violence do not take their children and walk out of the house. "They say, 'who is going to feed me?'"...
editors, choice, abuse, women, society
(32 views)
SIERRA LEONE: New laws give wo...

SIERRA LEONE: New laws give women unprecedented rights, protections

africa » sierra leone
IRIN
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Women in Sierra Leone stand to enjoy unprecedented rights under new laws making wife-beating a criminal offence, allowing women to inherit property,...
editors, choice, women, rights, law, forced, marriage
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UGANDA: Ending supply of 'nois...

UGANDA: Ending supply of 'noisy' female condoms not good enough – activists

africa » uganda » kampala
PlusNews
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Anti-AIDS campaigners in Uganda have denounced the governments decision to halt the distribution of female condoms as poorly informed and dangerous....
editors, choice, female, condom, hiv, aids, health, prevention, women
(37 views)
Bafrow sensitises local author...

Bafrow sensitises local authorities

africa » gambia
The Daily Observer Newspaper
Saturday, June 09, 2007
The Foundation for Research on Womens Health Productivity and the Environment (Bafrow), on Wednesday organised a one-day open field trip to its model...
events, women, ngo, poverty, health, bafrow
(51 views)
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