Bineta Diop chairs Femmes Africa Solidatire and organizes Gender Is My Agenda - which presses the African Union on women's inclusion.
Gender is My Agenda
Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, works closely with Femmes Africa Solidarité, coordinator of the Gender Is My Agenda Campaign. She recently spoke with AllAfrica.com about climate change, vulnerable people and making change a human rights issue.
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Africa: Addressing Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue
allAfrica, 14 January 2012
Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the promise of sustainable development will be revisited again at the 2012 Rio+20 United Nations Conference on… Read more »
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South Sudan: Women Aim to Protect Their Rights in a Young State
IPS, 15 December 2011
As South Sudan maps out its economic future at the South Sudan International Engagement Conference (IEC) this week in Washington, women from the new country called on donors to… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: When Protectors Turn Predators
Africa Renewal, 9 January 2012
"A dead rat is worth more than the body of a woman." Those were the words of one distraught young woman whom I met in Walikale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in… Read more »
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Mauritius: Women Find a Political Voice, Locally
IPS, 3 January 2012
Under a new gender quota law introduced in Mauritius, at least one-third of the candidates in local elections must be women. Read more »
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Namibia: Gender Education Needs Boosting in Rural Areas
New Era, 6 January 2012
"There is a need for more outreach centres throughout Namibia to facilitate the gender education platform," said Sarry Xoagus Eises who facilitated the "16 Days of Gender… Read more »
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Nigeria: Widows - Voices Unheard, Rights Quashed
Leadership, 4 January 2012
Widows in Nigeria are in the category of the unheard and the forgotten as they are not part of national discourse. GABRIEL EWEPU examines the predicament of this category of… Read more »
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Madagascar: Legal Aid Clinics Help Rural Women
UNIRIN, 22 December 2011
Legal aid clinics are playing an important role during Madagascar's current political and economic crisis, especially for poverty-hit rural women who are under-served by the… Read more »
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A study has criticised President Mwai Kibaki, saying despite pronouncements on gender equality, a signed elections bill does not provide a formula for realising the gender ... Read more »
