Links over Afrika
- Africa and gender resources
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Links over Afrika
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UN WomenWatch (Women of the World: Africa): The UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women. Links to Beijing Conference documents, statistics and Commission on the Status of Women meetings. |
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Africa woman now connects 80 female journalists from Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Nigeria, who meet on a monthly virtual newsroom (VNR) on this web site you can read the monthly newspapers which are the products of our pioneering virtual meetings across the African continent! |
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Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) is dedicated to women's leadership and empowerment |
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petition on the Ratification of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa |
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Femsud Consult is a private company registered early in 1999 in the Netherlands. Beside regular visits to Africa, we very closely monitor events in, on or affecting Africa. "We work with women in Africa to find effective strategies to get out of poverty and to better life conditions in especially in the rural areas". |
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Mama Cash strives for a peacefull and just world where women are free to make their own choices. Mama Cash financially supports women's groups that blaze the trails with self-initiated projects. The activities of the women's groups supported by Mama Cash are centred around Physical Integrity, Art, Culture and Media, Economic Justice, Peace and Security, Empowerment and Participation |
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Women’sNet works to advance gender equality and justice in South Africa through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) |
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De Ahfad Universiteit voor Vrouwen AUW) is een particuliere, niet-sektarische universiteit voor vrouwen in Omdurman, Soedan |
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Kali Mata is the name of a women's development centre in Tanzania. |
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United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Regional Office for East, Central and the Horn of Africa: This site provides a plentiful amount of information about a wide variety of topics and issues affecting women in Africa. The site describes UNIFEM's regional projects, offers on-line documents about women's human rights and highlights ways to support their efforts to eradicate FGM in Mali. |
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UNDP Gender in Development: This guide offers a more structured overview of the subject than is possible through the search option. Organizational sources (which include descriptions of organizations, databases and discussion lists) are arranged into useful groups. (See also: UNIFEM's new programme to help bridge the digital divide in Africa by providing women with access to information communication technologies (ICTs); Women, Peace and Security) |
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Africa Centre for Women of the UN-ECA: This site of the African Centre for Women (ACW) of the United Nations Economic Comission of Africa in Ethiopia provides useful information such as "News from around Africa" and "Meetings and Events on Africa". |
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FAWE The Forum for African Women Educationalists |
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ORUWOCA:
The
Mission
is to promote
effective education, better health, and financial autonomy
for underprivileged and vulnerable women
and children in
Africa. |
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IRIN (Gender Issues): This site of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs provides latest news on African gender issues as well as interviews. |
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Gender Net (World Bank Group): World Bank Group's resources, which provides useful links to African women-related themes such as "Gender and the Digital Divide" and "Gender Chapter of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)" (See Gender - Sub-Saharan Africa for World Bank's resources, specifically on gender in Sub-Saharan Africa). |
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Famafrique (Le site web des femmes d'Afrique francophone): This is an information website for Francophone African women's development (Le site web des femmes d'Afrique francophone: un espace d'information et de resources sur le développement durable pour les femmes d'Afrique). |
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FEMNET: It monitors activities geared towards raising the status of African women especially in the implementation of the Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, and the African and Global Platforms for Action. |
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Improving Women's Access to Credit: This site provides a useful overview of women's credit needs, financial services, and credit programs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Case studies include Benin and Tanzania. There is also bibliographic information and links to other websites. |
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African Women Global Network (AWOGNet): This is a global organization that works with individuals and organizations within Africa to improve the living conditions of women and children in Africa. Its "Map of Africa", which is a clickable map, is particularly useful, as one can click on a country for further useful links and information. |
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Flame: Flame is a network of African sisters online committed to strengthening the capacity of women through the use of ICTs to lobby, advocate and participate in the Beijing +5 process regionally and globally. |
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Women's Net: Sponsored by the non-governmental Sangonet and the government's Commission on Gender Equality, this site (new in 1998) focuses on internet resources for women's social action. Its "New this Week" page is a valuable guide to new resources not only on South Africa but also on other countries. |
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African Online (Africa women) |
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The Africa regional programme of APC's Women's Networking Support Programme: Association for Progressive Communication (APC)-Africa-Women gathers and works together with women and women's organizations in Africa and all over the world, focusing on African women's empowerment through Information Facilitation, Regional Support, Policy and Advocacy, Training and Research in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). |
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Women in Development Network (WIDNET): Africa page: This site has extensive statistics, links, directory, and database on international and women's issues. |
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Association of African Women Scholars (AAWS): AAWS is a worldwide organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging scholarship on African women in African Studies, forging intellectual links and networks with scholars, activists, students, and policy makers inside and outside Africa, and participating actively in continental and global debates on issues specifically relevant or related to African women. |
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allAfrica.com: Women: Links to current Africa women news from around the continent. |
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GAIN: Gender in Africa Information Network: This site aims to facilitate communication, discussion and information sharing between organisations and people interested in gender and women's issues in Africa. As a network, GAIN is committed to making indigenous information on women and gender valued, visible and accessible globally and participate in the global information society in order to promote gender justice and women's rights in Africa. |
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AWOGNet - African Women Global Network: This is a website of AWOG (a network of national organizations within Africa, whose activities are targeted towards the improvement of the living conditions of women and children in Africa). |
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Africa Resource Center: A bibliographic listing of journal articles and books related to gender issues. Several of the listings have links to full-text online articles. |
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African Gender Institute: This site was established by the University of Cape Town in 1996 to further gender equity in Africa; one can access links to other gender sites, and the Gender Research and Contacts Database. |
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Beijingplus10: Seventh African Regional Conference on Women Decade Review of the implementation of the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action. |
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Afrol.com:
This site provides the latest news stories related to gender
issues. Updated daily. In particular, its "Women & Gender News
Page" contains more features about the issues related to women in
Africa. |
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Gender Violence in African Schools: This is part of a UK Government (Department for International Development) funded research project and part of ID21 website hosted by the Institute of Development Studies (www.ids.ac.uk/ids), at the University of Sussex, UK. This research project to raise awareness about gender violence in African schools and disseminate information on interesting initiatives. |
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Women’s Human Rights Net: It is the first global online community of women’s human rights activists. It has interactive NEWS page. This site aims to promote advocacy through knowledge sharing of women’s human rights issues and events such as women and armed conflict, which are relevant to African women. |
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Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children |
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Girls' Education Initiative |