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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Women’s Ways of Structuring Data
Smoothly functioning infrastructures are invisible. Examples of infrastructures range from those physically constructed, such as transportation and public utility systems, to those that are more el…
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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’s Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in …
Women in developing countries are disempowered: high youth unemployment, early marriage and childbearing interact to limit their investments into human capital and enforce dependence on men. We eva…
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Is Formal Education Empowering?
We had earlier observed that the consensus among opinion moulders and discussants in non-formal education settings is that access to formal education and literacy training for girls and women will …
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Are we There Yet? Perspectives on Women and Leadership
This profile explores notions of leadership by highlighting the perspectives of six leaders (five women, one man) from diverse backgrounds. They shared with me the challenges and pleasures of being…
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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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Case Study: Legal Action to Stop Hotels Discriminating Against Women in Zambia
This case study takes a personal look at legal action taken against a Zambian hotel in Lusaka during the period 1984–1992 to stop their discrimination against women in access to the hotel. The …
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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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Women Organising in Ghana: The Network for Women’s Rights (NETRIGHT) and NG…
Ghanaian women’s agitations for economic justice have been a marked feature of their activism since pre-independence nationalist struggles, including the trade blockades of 1917 and 1918. Marke…
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