The Search for an African Feminist Ethic: A Zimbabwean Perspective
In the field of ethics, women have been portrayed as inferior to men due to androcentric attitudes (male-dominated ethics) that seems to define men as custodians of what is right or wrong. This a…
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Achieving Gender Equaity and Women's Empowerment in the Africa Common Positio…
The eradication of poverty and sustainable development cannot be achieved without a focus on social transformations that empower the most marginalized. A transformation goal on gender equality need…
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Rural Women’s Perspectives on Marriage and Related Issues: Analysis of Pers…
This paper is based on personal stories as told by Kenyan women. The stories were compiled by the author in 2001 and 2002when interviewing Kenyans on their views regarding the new constitution. The…
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Analysing the Monitoring Mechanisms of the African Women’s Protocol at the …
The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa was adopted under article 66 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights to supplement …
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Socio-economic rights and women in South Africa: nothing but a handful of fea…
The Bill of Rights contained within South Africa’s Constitution features a number of ‘socioeconomic rights’. Although these rights are justiciable they are subject to various limitations. The…
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Women and Noncommunicable Diseases in Africa: Mapping the scale, actors, and …
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a pan-African, women-led, grant-making foundation supporting African women’s organisations working at local, national, and regional level to promo…
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Women Leading Africa: Conversations with Inspirational African Women
Leymah Gbowee, the Liberian Nobel Peace Prize laureate, told a story at AWDF’s 15th anniversary event. She had made a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo with a number of fellow Nobel Prize …
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Gender and Security in Africa
Women face different forms of insecurity on a daily basis across the African continent. These are informed by the nature of women's labour, work environment, sexual orientation and failure in servi…
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African Women Pursuing Graduate Studies in the Sciences: Racism, Gender Bias,…
This paper illuminates some of the factors that shape the educational goals and outcomes of African women who pursued graduate studies in scientific disciplines at western universities between the …
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African Women: Economic Futures Convening Report
AWDF convened the African Women: Economic Futures (AWEF) at the Best Western Hotel in Accra, Ghana from September 13 to 15, 2018 as part of a movement building effort for conversation and activism …
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