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Our Rights articles from July 1 2001
Provides coverage and analysis of gender and wome.'s human rights issues in Africa. The coverage is part of FEMNET?s role as an advocate of women?s development, equality, and other women?s human rights in Africa.
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Our Rights archives from July 1 2001
Editorial.(discrmination and racism against women in Africa)(Editorial)
July 1, 2001... Women in Africa comprise approximately 50 per cent of the population affected by racism as migrants, indigenous peoples, minority groups, those affected by colonialism and neo-colonialism and those affected by conflict. While both the 1993...
Gender and racism.
July 1, 2001... The concept of racism is difficult to define, not only because of the vagueness of the concept of race, and because it is essentially bound up with emotional models that change over time, but also because of the intellectual and emotional links...
African women share experiences & identify priorities.(at World Conference Against Racism)
July 1, 2001... Women tram Africa held a regional meeting at the Gender Commission meeting held on August 29 2001 during the NGO Forum to the World Conference Against Racism, Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa. They...
Gender apartheid and womens rights.
July 1, 2001... With the ending of racial apartheid, the continent of Africa finally rid itself of the last remnant of legalised and institutionalised racism, which was pervasive across Africa in the colonial era. But we remain with another form of apartheid,...
The WCAR and its implications for women in developing countries.(World Conference Against Racism)
July 1, 2001... Imagine a town -- any town, anywhere in the world. It has a main highway, several major cross. streets and then a dozen other streets crossing those. Let's name the streets -- give the street names a theme. In this case, let's use different...
Lobbying at the World Conference Against Racism.
July 1, 2001... Lobbying at the WCAR was not an easy task for representatives of civil society. First of all, lobbying is a process that should be systematically carried out from the first Prepcom until the Conference and be done both at home and at the...
The World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia & Related Intolerance (WCAR); what gains for African women?
July 1, 2001... It is difficult to give a definitive account of what the gains for African women were at the WCAR in terms of outcomes. Events in New York and Washington on September 11th have so transformed the political and diplomatic mosaic, that many of...
Because I am an African woman.
July 1, 2001... Because I am an African Woman, I am the image of God, but this image is broken in the eyes of white people
Because I am an African Woman, the eyes of the white people do not see the God of creation in me
Because I am an African woman,...
About FEMNET.(African Women's Development and Communication Network)
July 1, 2001... The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET
The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) was set up in 1988 to share information, experiences, ideas and strategies among African women's...