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Women

See also: Agriculture, Education, Health, Population, Poverty

Gender Violence: UN launches global campaign to end abuse — April 2008

Taking on violence against women in Africa — July 2007

African gays and lesbians combat bias — April 2007

Education key to women’s progress — April 2007

Congolese women confront legacy of rape — January 2007

Call for protection of migrant women — October 2006

African women are ready to lead — July 2006

Redistributing assets to women — July 2006

Rwandan women: AIDS therapy beyond drugs — April 2006

Tapping women's entrepeneurship in Ghana — April 2006

Liberian woman breaks the ‘glass ceiling’ — January 2006

Genital Cutting: Legislators call for end to harmful practice — January 2006

Women: Africa ’s ignored combatants — October 2005

African women battle for equality — July 2005

UN takes tough line against peacekeeper abuses — April 2005

Sierra Leone:
Women speak out against sexual violence, an 'invisible war crime'— January 2005

Women: the face of AIDS in Africa — October 2004
[Box 1: African women: a long battle for equality ]
[Box 1: Bringing women out of their shells ]

Stephen Lewis speaks out:
Africa's youth on the edge of the chasm— October 2004

Women break into African politics — April 2004

Changing tradition to safeguard women — May 2003
International action against female genital mutilation

African women struggle foraseat at the peace table — February 2003
[Box 1: Are women better peacemakers?]
[Box 2: Casamance women march for peace]

Annan urges increasing women in UN peace operations — February 2003

Gender budgets' seek more equity — April 2002

Making trade work for poor women — December 2001

Liberating girls from 'trokosi' — December 2001

Women central to peace-building — January 2001

Mixed progress for African women — July 2000

Nigerian women target gender violence — July 2000

Burundi: Women strengthen peace talks — July 2000

African women prepare for Beijing+5 — April 2000

A prize for women farmers — December 1999

Campaign to target female genital mutilation — December 1999

How to combat women's poverty? — September 1999

Making development gender sensitive — June 1999

Local initiative attacks poverty — June 1999

African women demand greater peace role — June 1999

Women aim to transform Mozambique — April 1999

Annan calls for more science education for more females — April 1999

Empowering the poor at the local level — November 1998
[Box 1: Poverty eradication lags, says UNDP]

*Special Report on ECA conference* — August 1998
Moving women to centre-stage
[Box 1: Ministers to mobilize political will]
ECA broadens its partnerships
Themes on progress on gender
[Box 1: Continental peace-making role for women]
African Centre for Women aims for strategic impact
Stronger NGOs needed for grassroots work
Forward movement for women in Uganda
From Liberia to the African stage

Women farmers, the 'invisible' producers — October 1997
[Box 1: Women gain more land rights in Mozambique

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