This website was developed by the Johns Hopkins University Population Information Program (JHU/PIP) as a way of sharing documents, reports, articles, posters, pamphlets, videos, and more relating to violence against women. All of these resources are held at the JHU/PIP and are searchable through the website's database (click "search"). You can also join a listserv and get a bi-monthly email about the latest projects and materials developed on this subject. The website also has a daily news feed of articles from around the world on the subject of violence against women.

According to studies done by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI),
cocoa plays a vital role in the lives of poor women farmers in West Africa, who grow much of the world's cocoa. Cocoa farming can empower women, reduce poverty, and help the environment.

More than a year has passed since the historic United Nations Millennium Summit (September, 2000) when nearly 150 world leaders endorsed a clear set of development goals. They agreed to halve extreme poverty, reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters and achieve equal access of girls to all levels of education, all by 2015. They also committed the world to halt, and begin to reverse, the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015. Gender equality is paramount to the fulfillment of each of these goals.

Contribute to and co-ordinate the creation and updating of WHRnet website content across a range of sections and topics. Reports to the Executive Director of WHRnet. The position will be offered initially on a 6-month consultancy basis, with the possibility of a full-time contract thereafter. May be appointed on a full or part-time basis but must be available to work a minimum of 3 days per week. Location is flexible. Salary is negotiable and commensurate with experience.

In order to improve the ability of African business women to use ICT to access critical market information, identify prospective business opportunities, increase sub-regional information flows and facilitate cross-border and international trade linkages, USAID is supporting the establishment of a Women's Business Network for West Africa (WBN). Computer Frontiers, Inc. has been contracted to recruit a West African national coordinator residing in one of the target countries of Benin, Cote D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Niger, or Senegal with demonstrated experience in developing human and technological requirements for a networked association servicing businesswomen within the region.

The SADC Gender and Development Declaration and its addendum on the prevention and eradication of violence against women and children is set to gain more prominence in regional and national debates and action, as the region moves towards the next United Nations Women's Decade in 2005.

IDEA's gender programme aims to emphasize not only the quantitative aspects of women's representation, but also the qualitative impact of women in decision-making processes. It aims to improve and enhance women's effectiveness in political positions and to strengthen their impact in important decision-making forums.

The editor of the British Council and DFID sponsored Worldwoman web paper has unveiled plans for a women's news and radio service.

"He promised to take care of the child. My father suggested that he should marry me, and he agreed." This is what Sufiyatu Huseini - known as Safiya - says of the man who impregnated her and effectively sentenced her to death by stoning in the Muslim northern Nigerian province of Sokoto, while he walked free through lack of corroboration.

They cook, they clean, they kill. In this war-ravaged corner of West Africa, girls as young as 10 are abducted, raped and forced to become guerrilla fighters and "rebel wives."

"I want women to be emancipated through Art. A lot of women are illiterate. When you just talk or give them literature they won't understand. Through Art, women can be educated. If more women artists come up and produce Art with strong messages to liberate, educate both women and men, the struggle will be faster. Through Art, one can effectively communicate social/political messages across a diversity of tribes with languages and cultural bases. Art can transcend the temporal limits of languages and speech, and that's the challenge I would like to portray in my sculptures. "

The Anglican Church of Kenya yesterday ordained the first woman archdeacon in 150 years. The Rev Jane Karimi Njiru, 43, was ordained archdeacon in a colourful ceremony at St Andrew's Church presided over by Bishop Moses Njue of Embu Diocese.

Earlier this month, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies organised a Senior Leader Seminar which brought together military and civilian leaders from all over Africa to discuss issues related to security. Nouzha Skalli Bennis, member of the PPS, Morocco's former communist party, and municipal counsellor from Casablanca, represented the Democratic Association of Moroccan Women at the conference. She spoke with allAfrica.com about her work.

The International Journal of Agricultural Resources seeks papers which address the inter-relationships of gender with agricultural production, environment, agricultural sustainability, food security, agricultural and trade policies, development and the governance and
management of agriculture.

The United Nations Development Fund for Women and The NGO Committee on the Status of Women invite you to learn more about how economic policies affect women's lives and livelihoods at a Teach-In for NGOs: "Just Economics: Gender, Poverty and Policies."

The "Sexuality and Human Rights" Annotated Bibliography provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues related to sexual rights/sexuality and human rights. Areas highlighted include sexuality and violence, refugees/asylum, reproductive rights, lesbian and gay rights, and trafficking.

Women for Women International, a U.S.-based response and development organization, is starting a semi-annual journal about economic and social issues as they relate to women in
international development. The first issue of the journal will focus on the role of religion in the development process, and how it affects women. Articles with in-depth analysis of an issue within this theme, using a gender and development framework are needed.

The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) is pleased to announce the publication of "Women, Men and Environmental Change: The Gender Dimensions of Environmental Policies and Programs." This is the second in PRB's series on emerging policy issues in Population, Health, and Environment: Making the Link. It examines the gender dimensions of environmental policies and programs, highlighting how gender differences play a part in natural resource use, how resource depletion affects women and men differently, and what has been done worldwide to integrate gender concerns in environmental planning.

The Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program at the American University in Cairo, Egypt will host a seminar entitled, "Delivering Human Rights: Building Human Rights Awareness among Women Refugees." It will take place at the Main Campus on February 27th, 2002 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm.

The South African Gender-Based Violence & Health Initiative (SAGBVHI) will host the Gender Based Violence & Health Research Awards. The awards will be given to researchers from South Africa at the 1st Gender Based Violence & Health Conference, South Africa. The awards are intended to encourage research in specific areas of gender based violence and health.