As more women clamour for political offices in the forthcoming elections, an Islamic scholar in Bauchi has warned muslim women against participating in partisan politics.

The first reaction upon hearing about the topic of battered men, for many people, is that of incredulity. Author David Gross writes, "Battered husbands are a topic for jokes - such as the cartoon image of a woman chasing her husband with a rolling-pin."

Women's Caucus for Gender Justice is appealing to all concerned groups and individuals to join the campaign for women’s equal representation in the elected judges of the International Criminal Court, which is due to be operational on 1st of July 2002.

"How do I hold hands with my sisters in the North without also remembering that for 500 years an estimated 100 million Africans, most of whom were women, were brutally dragged across the world and scattered to every corner of the ‘empire’, while millions more - my fore-parents in the widest sense of the word - slaved on plantations and mines across this region, producing the very wealth that made it possible for European women - of all classes - to renegotiate the distribution of critical resources between themselves and the state through the mechanism of the welfare state. And yet, in this new and very interesting time of the 21st century when the very same forces that invented racial and location difference among and between peoples and women as an exploited and oppressed group, have, through the further entrenchment of social inequality and difference, begun to threaten those very essential bonds that women worked so hard to emphasize during the past hundred years. Clearly, globalization requires that we interrogate more critically those things that have kept us apart - among which most importantly is the issue of white privilege between women in a world divided into North and South."

Women in many Asian, African and may be in Europe and America, have similar never ending stories, full of pain and sorrows. The more women compromise, the more men take advantage of them. The more they give, the more men take from them physically, mentally and spiritually. This is the never-ending situation for women of a male dominating society.

Members of the controversial Tent of the Living God sect have denied claims that they planned to circumcise women by force. They termed the allegations as malicious.

Isis International-Manila is coming out with the second issue for 2002 of its magazine, Women in Action, with the theme, "Women and Communication." Deadline for submissions for Issue No. 2-2002 is June 30, 2002.

Examining budgets through a gender lens can help identify gaps in access to and distribution of public resources. Such budgets are not budgets formulated separately for men and women. Rather, the overarching objective of bringing gender-analysis to budgets is to redefine priorities and reallocate relevant resources that respond to the needs of the entire population, taking explicit account of women's disadvantaged position.
Gender-aware budgets promote both equity and efficiency.

Ensuring equal opportunities for girls in education is the key to achieving social and economic gains in developing countries, delegates declared on the opening day of the United Nations "Children's Summit" in New York Wednesday.

The nature of armed conflicts changed dramatically during the latter half of the twentieth century, with casualties among civilians increasingly outnumbering those of military personnel. Women and girls became especially vulnerable in such conflicts. Because of this, significant ethical, analytical and operational challenges have emerged for the United Nations system, not least for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). One of the most critical challenges is the need to develop integrated, gender-sensitive strategies and programme interventions for addressing conflict situations.

Postgraduate studies in Women's Health by distance education are offered at
Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia.

The Experts/Ministerial meeting on the Draft Protocol women's human rights to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights has been postponed for the second time because only 4 Ministers had confirmed their participation. We need to continue lobbying our governments at national level especially ministries of gender and justice and gender desks of regional economic communities and encourage them to participate to ensure that it is postponed again.

Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) invites you to participate in an online
conference on Information Access for Rural Women and contribute material you may have that is relevant to the subject of information access for rural women. This material could be in the form of reports or articles on your activities in the area or links to relevant sections of your website. Information, communication and entertainment are as critical for rural living as they are for urban living, and indeed there is increasing demand for information and communication equipment and services in rural areas.

The goal of the webstite is the global defense and encouragement of women's right to free expression. In addition to news and events, and information on our
organization's history, affiliates, board, regional programs, and human rights work, the Women's WORLD website has the following special features: African women's voices, voices for peace in Israel-Palestine, writing on global political and economic crises, and practical advice and links for women writers.

GENDER inequality is the root of the AIDS crisis, a conference on HIV/AIDS held in Kampala over the weekend, was told. The recent trends show more women becoming infected at a very early age. The conference also heard that HIV/AIDS will surpass the bubonic plague as history's worst pandemic.

GENDER inequality is the root of the AIDS crisis, a conference on HIV/AIDS held in Kampala over the weekend, was told. The recent trends show more women becoming infected at a very early age. The conference also heard that HIV/AIDS will surpass the bubonic plague as history's worst pandemic.

GENDER inequality is the root of the AIDS crisis, a conference on HIV/AIDS held in Kampala over the weekend, was told. The recent trends show more women becoming infected at a very early age. The conference also heard that HIV/AIDS will surpass the bubonic plague as history's worst pandemic.

GENDER inequality is the root of the AIDS crisis, a conference on HIV/AIDS held in Kampala over the weekend, was told. The recent trends show more women becoming infected at a very early age. The conference also heard that HIV/AIDS will surpass the bubonic plague as history's worst pandemic.

An annotated directory of information, on the internet, about women in Africa. Full text articles, women's organizations, bibliographies, discussion lists.

Women Build Africa is a narrative of women organizing for change. The exhibit, 200 m2 in dimension is divided into three zones. The introductory zone The Thousand Faces of Women provides a perspective on the intricate role played by women with regards to the values and practices of their society and the way in which women preserve and pass down their knowledge and know-how from generation to generation. The zone Nurturers and Innovators showcases the nature, diversity and importance of women's involvement in economic development. In the third zone Building the Future visitors are invited to reflect on the progress that must be accomplished in order to enable women in Africa to achieve political, economic and social emancipation. The exhibition underlines the importance of education, central to any strategy promoting women's rights and economic development, and their contribution to peace building. It advocates for mutually empoweing gender relations and increased efforts to create a legislative environment that provides women with acces to key assets such as land and credit. It ends on a positive note by highlighting networks of solidarity that are created between women world-wide and efforts at capacity building and empowerment.