jeudi 31 juillet 2008

Baromètre de la justice du genre de l'Afrique Australe - Edition du 25 juillet 2008.

SOUTHERN AFRICA GENDER JUSTICE BAROMETER

(ISSUE 25: JULY 2008)

IN THIS ISSUE: SADC GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT PROTOCOL:


News Highlights

  • Regional: Towards developing a standard set of indicators to measure GBV
  • DRC National Policy of Gender, Family and Children validated
  • Ghana: Gender features strongly in the resolutions by the General Assembly of the 1st Ordinary Congress of the UCGLA
  • South Africa: Response to the xenophobia attacks not gender sensitive
  • Seychelles: Gender Seychelles website launched
  • Regional: Justice ministers consider SADC Gender Protocol
  • Regional: The Alliance at the SADC HOS Summit
  • Zambia: National consultative meeting to drum up support for the Gender Protocol
LEGISLATION
  • Botswana: Emang Basadi to Challenge Kgosi Sebele's judgement
  • Zambia: Court reaches landmark decision in teacher rape case
  • Uganda: Women demand for marital rape to be made into a crime
SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, CULTURAL AND POLITICAL
  • Namibia: Local government workshop tackles women representation
  • Tanzania: Njombe women entrepreneurs get $13 million in loans
  • Africa: Cutting edge: Male circumcision and HIV
  • Africa: A tale of two countries
SERVICES
  • DRC: Government unveils programme to fight against sexual violence
  • DRC: "Green Line" for sexual violence survivors launched
  • South Africa: National Shelter Network to be launched
  • Lesotho: Children dial 800 22 345 for help
  • Zimbabwe: More women in Zimbabwe access Reproductive Health Care
EDUCATION, TRAINING AND AWARENESS BUILDING

PREVENTION OF GBV: WHAT WORKS?
  • South Africa: Stepping Stones: Working with men
UPCOMING EVENTS
  • DPLG 16 Days Exit Report Dinner
  • Gender and Media Summit
  • Launch of a National Shelter Network
  • Seychelles: Online petition on campaign against gender violence
  • Global: Join the online discussion on preparing for CSW in New York
  • Zambia: Media coverage of gender violence improves
  • Seychelles: Confronting violence
INTEGRATED APPROACHES &BUDGETARY ALLOCATIONS
  • Seychelles: National Strategy on Domestic Violence to be popularized
  • Madagascar: Only a multisector approach will help eliminate violence
  • Mozambique: Ministry of Women reviews National Action Plan to End Gender Violence

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