The international women's rights community moved forward, pressing to protect women's bodily integrity and right to sexual autonomy, to examine the ways that race or ethnicity and gender intersect to deny women human rights, and to protect women from gender-specific violations of the laws of war.

The WORC aims to develop a "one-stop-shop" for gender-related training materials relevant to individuals and organisations active in the struggle for gender justice. It is intended to serve as a clearinghouse for gender-aware training materials in the area of ICT training, as well as a range of other fields for which there is an expressed need.

The WORC aims to develop a "one-stop-shop" for gender-related training materials relevant to individuals and organisations active in the struggle for gender justice. It is intended to serve as a clearinghouse for gender-aware training materials in the area of ICT training, as well as a range of other fields for which there is an expressed need.

The Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) has recently released a new training manual for women's leadership. It poses an alternative leadership model based on the concept that effective leadership-- leadership that serves both women and men, poor and rich, and the powerless and powerful-- is inclusive, participatory, and horizontal. The handbook has been "tested" and used in leadership training workshops in several countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East with positive results.

The forty-sixth session of this Commission will consider the following two thematic issues: Eradicating poverty, including through the empowerment of women throughout their life cycle in a globalizing world; and Environmental management and mitigation of natural disasters: a gender perspective.

On 8th December 2001, Abok Alfa Akok a Christian woman of 18 years of age from the Dinka tribe, was sentenced by the criminal court in Nyala City, Southern Darfur, to execution by stoning for the crime of adultery.

Protests from all the world keep streaming into Nigeria for the upholding of the death sentence by stoning against Safiya Hussaini, 35, a woman which is accused of adultery by an Islamic court in northern Nigeria. Today, the European Parliament joined the protests.

The Itumbauzo Centre for Mentally Ill Persons in Abia State has raised alarm over flagrant sexual abuse of mentally ill women in the society by supposedly responsible men.

People say they are appalled by the alarming rate of rape cases and concerned by what they described as lack of action by the government.

The congress is organized by the Department of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University around the main theme "Gendered Worlds: Gains and Challenges". This theme provides an opportunity for a broad reflection on the state of women and gender issues taking stock of achievements, challenges and opportunities. It enables discussions focused on both differences and similarities and offers positive pointers for future action for gender equity and equality.

The Associates Programme offers African women scholars supportive intellectual space and establishes AGI connections with intellectuals and research-based advocates, committed to working with gender and equity issues in Africa. Through an Associateship programme, AGI Associates are offered supportive intellectual space, where they are free to reflect on, discuss and write up their individual work, and engage in collective projects for gender equity. The Associates are selected through a pan-African committee process.

Jacqueline Moudeina, a lawyer from Chad, was announced today as the winner of the 2002 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders. The announcement comes at the opening of a key meeting, Frontline's Dublin Platform for Human Rights Defenders, where Ms Moudeina is one of the participants.

At the opening of its twenty-sixth session, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women -– the monitoring body for the implementation of the Convention against such discrimination -- discussed recent progress and future action. Adopting its agenda and programme of work, the Committee agreed that during the current session, which is to last until 1 February, it will examine reports of eight States parties. The Committee's 23 experts, who act in their personal capacity, are also expected to continue their work on a new recommendation to address article 4.1 of the Convention on temporary special measures aimed at accelerating de facto equality between men and women.

An important gathering of those in the developed and developing worlds who are concerned about gender issues and the growing inequity in access to, and use of, essential information and communications technologies in the developing regions.

To express our condemnation of the continued assault on women, since Monday this week in particular, and on violence against women in general in Zambia. Bring your placards with messages to bring home once and for all to our government that enough is enough...
Time: assemble 08:00 hours
Place: embassy square (opposite Cabinet Office), Lusaka
Date: Friday, 18th January, 2002.

STATE House yesterday refuted reports that it had banned women from wearing mini-skirts and skin tights as part of President Mwanawasa's 'New Deal' and directed police to deal firmly with culprits who stripped innocent women in the Lusaka city centre yesterday. Spokesperson Arthur Yoyo said the President had at no time issued directives to bar women from wearing pairs of trousers, mini-skirts and skin tights. Police arrested more than 20 youths in connection with the rowdy behaviour which left some women stripped naked.

The Malawi Media Women's Association (MAMWA) recently received a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to add four new "radio listeners clubs" to its broadcast operation, according to Janet Karim, MAMWA's co-founder.

The African Centre for Women, Information and Communications Technology is organizing this Conference to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from February 11 to 15, 2002. The aim of the Conference is to raise awareness on ICT among women in the Horn of Africa region and explore opportunities for harnessing technology to work as a tool for their development.