African Women

What About Including Women in Africa's Transformation?

Kristine Pearson | Posted 05.16.2012

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Kristine Pearson

South Africa's minister of finance delivered heartfelt remarks, reminding us that there are a billion lives that need to benefit from Africa's transformation. Little did I realize how swiftly and significantly Minister Gordhan's words would touch me.

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Mother's Day Challenges for Us All

Susan M. Blaustein | Posted 05.11.2012

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Susan M. Blaustein

It will take a world -- a world of mothers, most likely -- rich ones, poor ones, all of them empowered, all speaking the truth -- to raise a universe of daughters and sons who know to treat each other with care and with respect.

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Series on Women Changing the World: Betty Makoni, Zimbabwe

Elly Pradervand | Posted 04.30.2012

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Elly Pradervand

Betty was six-years-old when a local shopkeeper raped her. Silenced by her mother, she didn't dare to speak out about the night she was locked in a dark room and held at knifepoint.

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Birthing Justice: The Link to Humanity -- Gift Economies

Beverly Bell | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Mali, Women's Rights, Women, Solidarity Economy, Care Economy, Social Movements, Gender, Gift Economy, African Women, Africa, West Africa, World News
Beverly Bell

West African gifting is based on the interrelated values that all humanity is linked and that one's well-being is only as strong as that of one's neighbor. Profit and exchange are trumped by a commitment to care for community.

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The 8 Cent Solution to Improving Women's Health in Africa

Peter Hotez, M.D, Ph.D. | Posted 04.09.2012

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Peter Hotez, M.D, Ph.D.

For too long we have allowed millions of girls and women to suffer from female genital schistosomaisis. We may now be at the beginning of the end of this disease.

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African Women: A Celebration of Achievements

Atim Oton | Posted 12.28.2011

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Atim Oton

As an African woman, I declare: The Nobel Prize got it right, it celebrated three African Women. African Women are doing the work in the trenches. We often forget the doers and usually acknowledges the talkers.

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Letter From Uganda: Given the Tools to Fight Poverty, Africa's Women Tend to Win

Susan Davis | Posted 12.25.2011

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Susan Davis

When we invest in girls and women, we end up with healthier families, a more flexible workforce, lower HIV rates and a more stable society.

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On Behalf of Walking Africa -- I Personally Thank You

Clarissa Burt | Posted 12.10.2011

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Clarissa Burt

I am thrilled, ecstatic, and elated. This is a momentous step forward for women not just in Africa and Yemen but for women around the world.

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Curtis M. Wong

Empowering Women In Post-Conflict Societies

HuffingtonPost.com | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 10.30.2011

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When asked about her personal and professional inspirations, Gretchen Steidle Wallace names neither an A-list celebrity nor a political figure but, ra...

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More Than a Symbol

Clarissa Burt | Posted 10.30.2011

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Clarissa Burt

For now the world waits to see if African women will be given the opportunity they so richly deserve, the opportunity to be finally be heard.

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Walking Africa

Clarissa Burt | Posted 09.27.2011

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Clarissa Burt

The CIPSI and ChiAma L'Africa propose to launch an international campaign that results in the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize 2011 to African women as a whole -- a collective Nobel.

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Spice Of Life: Nutmeg, 'Viagra For Women,' Heats Things Up In Africa

Global Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some refer to it as the “magic spice,” or “cheap high,” while others call it “Viagra for women.” Even packages of ground nutmeg, sold in D...

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Why Women Are the Key to Ending Hunger

Vivian Glyck | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vivian Glyck

Can the solution to hunger be attributed to one sex over the other? Is it really that cut and dry? If so, how do we maximize our efforts to support the findings?

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Fighting For Girls' Rights With God's Help: A Conversation With Aicha Ech-Channa

Katherine Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011

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Katherine Marshall

Winner of the $1 million Opus Prize in 2009, Aicha Ech-Channa has worked for five decades to help unmarried women with children in Casablanca, Morocco.

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Sierra Leone Youth Call for an End to Female Genital Mutilation

Chi Mgbako | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chi Mgbako

In Sierra Leone, I witnessed hundreds of students in sweltering lecture halls highlight female genital mutilation's consequences. The workshops were a clarion call to end the practice.

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International Donors Must Fund Breakthrough Female-Controlled HIV Prevention Gel

Chi Mgbako | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chi Mgbako

If funding does not materialize, an unprecedented opportunity to reduce HIV infection rates among women will be lost.

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Africa's Women Turn 50

Chi Mgbako | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chi Mgbako

To strengthen women's educational and economic status, African governments must address deeply entrenched gender biases in the system and increase women's access to land, credit, potable water, agricultural farm inputs, and markets.

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It's Time to Consider the Girl Effect on HIV

Maria Eitel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Maria Eitel

The resources we provide girls in Africa is directly related to our success in defeating HIV/AIDS. It's time to consider how we can empower them to defeat the scourge of their population.

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Amateur Abortion In Africa Takes Deadly Toll On Women

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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A handwritten ledger at the hospital tells a grim story. For the month of January, 17 of the 31 minor surgical procedures here were done to repair the...

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African Women Hit Hardest By Global Economic Crisis

Inter Press Service | Kudzai Makombe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kudzai Makombe interviews MWILA CHIGAGA, ILO Regional Senior Gender Specialist ADDIS ABABA, May 6 (IPS) - The global financial crisis is on every...

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Witch-Hunt: The Hidden War on African Women

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

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Johann Hari

Across Africa, a war is being waged on women -- but we are refusing to hear the screams. I have traveled into the secretive shadow world that mutilates millions of African women.

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"Profound Disconnect" Between African Media Coverage Of Agriculture And People's Lives: IWMF Report

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is a "profound disconnect" between how the media covers agricultural issues in Africa and how people actually live, according to a new study by ...

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