Women's Rights are Human Rights - on ocassion of 60 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Sixty years after the adoption of the UDHR, women around the world still find themselves being disproportionately affected by violence and discrimination. While the UDHR enshrines far-reaching principles of human dignity with the proclamation that "all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights," and the stipulation that human rights apply to all equally without distinction of any kind including sex, this rhetoric has not yet been fully translated into reality. Read more:
Land for women: the attitude behind hunger"
Daily Monitor, Uganda
Women feed the nation, but due to cultural and conservative laws, they are denied land ownership, which is at the heart of food production, writes Jane Nafula . http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/features/...
The Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign
An update from AWID on United Nations reform and the civil society campaign to reform and strengthen UN gender architecture. http://www.awid.org/eng
La Campaña por la Reforma de la Arquitectura para la Igualdad de Género
(GEAR) http://www.awid.org/esl
La Campagne mondiale pour une réforme visant à renforcer l'architecture de l'égalité des sexes (Campagne GEAR) http://www.awid.org/fre
Cover story: Wining Women's Rights to Land
in: Africa Renewal, Vol.22 #1 (April 2008)
Across Africa, women grow most of the food but rarely have secure rights to land in their own names... Read more
FEMNET: Support the Campaign for the Ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
Sixteen countries have ratified the Protocol - now the struggle for implementing these rights at national level begins! Read more here: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/petition/index.php
South Africa: Rural Women and Land Reform: When will we move beyond the rhetoric?
The propping up of traditional laws and patronage politics are failing South Africa's landless rural women. If rural women are to be freed from economic marginalisation, we'll need "laws that bite". South African Civil Society Information Service
