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Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa with support from UNIFEM Southern Africa Regional Office will host the second Women in Politics Training of Trainers workshop in Flic en Flac, Mauritius, from 9 to 12 November 2010. Nomcembo Manzini, UNIFEM Southern Africa regional director says 'the capacity building programme will seek to nurture a pool of trainers spanning women in politics support organisations and political parties that have the skills and tools to train women in advocacy around gender, democracy and governance.'

Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/polls/index.asp, and will include
stories, opinion columns and resources for women politicians.

* For more information or media interviews, please contact Tafadzwa
Rafemoyo, IPS Africa, on Tel: +2711 325 2671, or Email:
[email][email protected] .

[UNIFEM's work in Africa focuses on enhancing public accountability to
gender equality and women's human rights. UNIFEM supports women's
leadership in democratic governance and peace building, and promotes
the transformation of policy processes to reduce women's poverty, end
violence against women and address HIV and AIDS. UNIFEM has its
headquarters in New York City and works worldwide out of 4 liaison
offices, 15 sub-regional offices, 10 country programme offices, and 46
project offices. Visit www.unifem.org for more details.]

[IPS Africa (www.ipsnews.net/africa) is a leading and credible source
of information about Africa, with a network of more than 100 writers
reporting from almost 50 countries. IPS Africa provides a constant
flow of news features, analyses, commentary and opinion on the major
economic, social and development challenges of the continent to more
than 800 media outlets across the continent. Focusing on Africa’s
untold stories, IPS strives to produce regular features focusing on
development issues such as poverty, women’s empowerment, governance,
access to water, research and trade. IPS Africa's journalistic output
is primarily available in English and French, with translations in
Swahili and Portuguese. The IPS Africa headquarters are based in
Johannesburg, South Africa and is part of the IPS international News
Agency (www.ips.org) registered in Rome, Italy]