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• Women (Africa)

  Resist depoliticisation – “The revolution will not be NGO-ised”: four lessons from African feminist organising

  31 July 2017, by ANUMA Felogene, BAH Valérie

  African feminist movements are diverse. But we can, and must, learn from decades of transformational organising on the continent.
  Participants at the Black Feminisms Forum in Brazil, 2016. Photo: None on Record.
  As African feminists, we face multiple systems of oppression including the (...)

• Women (Africa)

  Dakar Declaration: Launch in Africa of the Vía Campesina Campaign condemning violence against women

  9 February 2011, by La Via Campesina

  BREAKING THE SILENCE: NO TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
  DAKAR DECLARATION
  At the 2011 World Social Forum held in Dakar, we, the African peasant organisations members of la Vía Campesina, have decided to launch and communicate on behalf of our continent the campaign of our movement condemning (...)

• Women (Africa)

  The World Financial Meltdown: What Now for African Women?

  June 2009, by ERVIN Hilary, MURITHI Caroline Muthoni

  As the global economic crisis takes its toll on Africa’s fiscal revenues and household incomes, Hilary N. Ervin & Caroline Muthoni Muriithi fear that the continent’s achievements in human rights and development may be reversed, worsening the condition of women already struggling against an (...)

• Women (Africa)

  NEPAD: new or old partnership for African women?

  4 May 2002, by PHEKO Mohau

  It is not the first time that Africa’s leaders are actively working on a set of new continent The new African initiative in the words of African governments “is a pledge by African leaders, based on a common vision and a firm and shared conviction, that they have a pressing duty to eradicate (...)