Women's Rights in the News

SADC: Adopt Gender and Development Protocol

Southern African leaders should adopt the proposed Gender and Development Protocol at their upcoming summit after amending it to include crucial provisions deleted in 2007, Human Rights Watch said today.

Ransacking of Longtime Women's News Agency

The devastation and disorder of a burglary and violent vandalism at the women’s news agency CIMAC (Women’s Communication & Information) offices in Mexico City last weekend suggest that it was more than a common break-in, according to Lucía Lagunes Huerta, general director of the organization.

Gender inequality growing despite correction efforts

Inequality among Kenya’s men and women has defied recent efforts to correct it signalling that the need for policy makers to go back to the drawing board, a new report indicates.

High hopes for female condom

Malawian women have little say when it comes to condom use, but the government hopes that the recent launch of the female condom in the country could go some way in solving this age-old dilemma.

Fistula in Sahel region highlighted

Doctors in Burkina Faso say fistula is being under-reported, and are launching a new project to offer free surgery to some of the affected women.

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