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Mothers’ health is improving across Africa
11 Feb 2013In recent years, the shrill cries of a newborn baby have been bringing more shouts of joy than of anguish in maternity wards across Africa. That is because maternal deaths are decreasing on the...
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‘Take away the guns,’ women tell UN envoy
Zainab Bangura, UN special representative on sexual violence in conflict, speaking after her...
Helping the ‘collateral victims’ of AIDS
Here in Rakai, where Uganda’s first AIDS case was reported in the early 1980s, it is common to see...
Women, peace and security, 10 years on
In October 2010 more than 600 Congolese women and girls were reportedly raped along the border...
Microfinance: What role in Africa's development?
Time to reassess the limits and strengths of small-scale lending
African women’s long walk to equality
Women in Madagascar benefit from a micro-finance programme: African women’s movements are focusing...
To save the lives of mothers, infants
In an otherwise grim outlook for Africa’s hopes of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (...
Women in North Africa secure more rights
Women demonstrate in Algeria for changes in the Family Code to allow them greater rights....
Enlisting men for women’s equality
South African civil society groups are seeking to change men’s attitudes towards women, and to...
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