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11/28/2009
WORLD AIDS DAY
Groups Urge Repeal of "Antiquated Colonial Laws"
By Peter Richards
On the heels of a new report by UNAIDS that the HIV virus is now infecting Caribbean men and women at an equal rate, activist groups are urging regional leaders to eliminate laws that further the stigmatisation associated with the deadly virus.
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11/30/2009
RIGHTS
Nigeria Failing To End Discrimination Against Women
By Salma Ahmad Kano
Twenty-four years after ratification of CEDAW, early marriage - and with it, the end of many girls' education - is just one of the persisting obstacles to gender equality in Nigeria. Credit: Nicholas Reader/IRIN Nigeria ratified the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1985 without reservations. But few of its citizens have ever heard of the document. Day-to-day life for women in Nigeria is shaped less by international conventions than it is by the diverse cultures, traditions and religions found in the country.
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11/27/2009
Q&A
CEDAW - Signed, Sealed and Largely Left on the Shelf
Ebrima Sillah interviews OUMOULKHAIRY KANE, head of the Association for the Defence of Women's
Mauritania formally adopted the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in 2001, but in the eight years since, it has had limited effect on the status of women.
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SOUTH AFRICA
Legal Victory Offers Little Relief For Sex Workers
By Nathalie Rosa Bucher
The City of Cape Town's response to an interdict banning arbitrary arrest of sex workers was to establish a vice squad. Credit: Nathalie Rosa Bucher/IPS More than seven months after the Cape High Court ruled in favour of the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), interdicting the police for harassment and arrests, sex workers are losing the daily battles against police and criminal elements on the streets.
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SUDAN
Peace Agreement Proving Less Than Comprehensive
By Jedi Ramalapa
SPLA soldiers in the Abyei area during North-South tension in June 2008 Credit: Timothy McKulka/IRIN The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended one of Africa's longest and complex civil wars, with nominal agreement reached on security, wealth sharing, and governance issues. But there are renewed fears that conflict could erupt again in the country as divisions between the north and the south deepen.
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11/28/2009
CLIMATE CHANGE
Angry Greenhouse Gas Victims Demand Action
By Paul Virgo
Climate change witnesses Credit:Paul Virgo/IPS 'Angry’ is not the adjective that comes to mind when you first meet Nelly Damaris Chepkoskei.
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11/26/2009
POLITICS-NAMIBIA
SWAPO’s Dominance Challenged
By Servaas Van den Bosch
SWAPO supporter Martha Hamukoto and her friends show their new voter's cards. Credit:Servaas Van den Bosch/IPS "Man RDP!" sighs Martha Hamukoto, sitting on the steps of a Windhoek office block. She is lamenting the breakaway faction, the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP).
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POLITICS-NAMIBIA
'Parties Totally Don't Care About Women's Rights'
By Servaas van den Bosch
Elections are still male-dominated in Namibia. Credit:Servaas van den Bosch/IPS Gender activists foresee a drop in female parliamentarians after Namibia’s general and presidential elections on November 27 and 28. It’s a trend that jeopardises the region’s goal of 50 percent female representation in politics by 2015.
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GENDER-SOUTH AFRICA
'There Is A Sense Of Vindication'
Miren Gutierrez* interviews THENJIWE MTINTSO, Ambassador of South Africa to Italy
Thenjiwe Mtintso: 'This is our time. South Africa, and Africa in general, can avoid repeating the mistakes other countries have done because we can learn from other’s experiences.' Credit: Miren Gutierrez/IPS Born in a squatter camp in Orlando East and raised by a single mother; working in a factory while completing secondary school by correspondence; arrested and banned by the apartheid government: South Africa's ambassador to Italy is an example of the long road her country has travelled.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Fears Forest Proposals Are 'Human Rights Disaster'
By Leonie Joubert
Slash and burn in Mozambique: proposals for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation focus on states to the detriment of forest-dependent communities, critics say. Credit: David Gough/IRIN The clean, ultra-modern chrome and glass lines of the Bella Centre, in the Danish capital Copenhagen, is a world away from the thronging canopy suspended over the tropical forests of Uganda, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Cameroon.
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