Gender & Minorities

There are some things in life that start off like questions without answers and end up like answers without questions.

In Africa, women’s rights have been underrated, ignored and trampled upon. The place of the African woman is often regarded as that of being seen but not heard. Too often, culture is used as a justification for the denial of women’s rights.

Volumes have been written about the Mayan indigenous Zapatista social movement of Chiapas, Mexico, since they made their first public appearance on January 1, 1994.

It was President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia who said at the opening of the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance [IDEA"> Seminar on ‘Women and Parliament’, 26 September 2006, in Accra, Ghana, that, “We are aware as a result of our fortitude and struggle that there

We, the participants of the Forum on the Participation of NGOs in the 56th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the 30th African Human Rights Book fair held in Banjul, The Gambia from 16th to 19th April 2015;

Thanks to the extremist Islamic sect Boko Haram, the situation of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, especially women, girls and children in the far north of Cameroon has reached humanitarian crisis level.

(NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015)—The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) today raised serious concerns about discriminatory provisions in a law signed by Malawi’s President Mutharika that is expected to go into effect today.

Resistance and strength manifest like weeds through cracks in Chiapas, Mexico, and transnational Kurdistan where the respective Zapatista and Kurdish resistance movements are creating new gender relations as a primary part of their struggle and process for building a better world.

"Women of Uganda…you are at the centre of production but at the periphery of benefit”. Hon. Miria Matembe[1].

African Women’ s Decade 2014 Report

Four years since the launch of the African Women’s Decade 2010-2020, where are we?