Gender & Minorities

“The litany of class, race, and gender suggests a parity for each term, but, in fact, that is not at all the case” – Joan W. Scott

While the anger is accumulating in Sudan and peaceful demonstrators are being injured and killed by the Sudanese regime forces, this comes as a natural result of years of injustices.

“The speed with which the Protocol came into force on 25 November 2005 sets a new record for the ratification of pan African rights standards for the continent.

August 9 represented the 57th anniversary of the Women’s March on Pretoria in 1956. The event attracted 20,000 women to protest the pass laws which were a hallmark of the racist apartheid system.

On 11 July 2013, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women (the Protocol) turns 10. Looking back on the past decade, there is much to celebrate.

I believe in an Africa that is fit for women and girls; that protects their well-being and creates a supportive environment for them to realise their aspirations.

Led by senior politicians, including the minister of Justice and Minister of Youth with support from leading religious figures, some of whom are allegedly supported by the christian right in the USA (not very unlike Uganda a while back....) this has led to gays and lesbians in the country going i

In Africa, as in the rest of the world, women are largely underrepresented in the political arena. However 2011 and 2012 saw an unprecedented number of female presidential candidates vying for office.