The Foundations of ‘Peace’ as a Value for the promotion of Human Rights i…

This article identifies ‘peace’ as a strategic value in promoting human rights in Africa. The objective is to juxtapose the theoretical and practical foundations of ‘peace’ as a conceptua…

10 years of leadership & empowerment for African women

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Affordable House Designs to Improve Health in Rural Africa: a Field Study fro…

The population of sub-Saharan Africa is currently estimated to be 1245 million and is expected to quadruple by the end of the century, necessitating the building of millions of homes. Malaria rema…

Women and Political Governance in Africa: A Feminist Perspective

This study seeks to examine and analyze the different ways in which African women leaders in their respective capacities in civil society, political parties and in government/State institutions h…

Boko Haram and the Child’s Right to Education in Africa: Examining the Acco…

This article discusses the accountability debate surrounding the activities of non-state actors and its impact on the realisation of the child’s right to education. It examines the legal framew…

Awareness and uptake of the Pap smear among market women in Lagos, Nigeria

Our study evaluates the effect of an educational programme on awareness and uptake of the cervical cancer screening test (Pap smear) by women in a model market in Lagos, Nigeria. This was a qua…

Effects of Vector-control Interventions on Changes in Risk of Malaria Parasit…

Background In the past decade, decreases in clinical episodes and deaths due to malaria have been mainly associated with the expansion of vector-control measures, such as insecticide-treated bedne…

Awkward Activisms: Gender and Embodied Mobilization in a Postapartheid South …

The focus of this article, however, is not primarily disciplinary paradigms or the tension of inhabiting incompatible orientations with regard to the ethnographic context of my research. Such con…

Selected abstracts from the Breastfeeding and Feminism International Conferen…

Breastfeeding rates vary widely around the world, and change over time. Currently, as summarised in the recent Lancet series, poorer women in low and middle-income countries have higher rates of …

Women Moving Africa Forward Annual Report 2004

The review of the Beijing Conference 10 years after, is taking place in 2005, and for the past year or so, the various UN regions have been going through a process which will feed into the…