News
27 Oct 2008
Uganda's Ministry of ICT has commenced discussions on a new IT policy for the country. The new national policy is intended to address the shortfalls of the 2003 IT policy, explained Williams Dembe of Precision Innovations Systems, one of the drafters of the document, at a national dialogue on the draft policy.
Computerworld East Africa
27 Oct 2008
TAC has issued the following global call for affordable access to HPV vaccines in non-OECD (developing) countries. Copies of the statement will be delivered to representatives of Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, the manufactures and patent-holders of the Gardasil© and Ceravix© HPV vaccines , respectively, in the near future.
Treatment Action Campaign
27 Oct 2008
Statistics South Africa released the Mortality and causes of death in South Africa, 2006: Findings from death notification report last week. The statistical release presents data on mortality and causes of death based on all death notification forms received from the Department of Home Affairs for deaths that occurred in 2006.
Treatment Action Campaign
23 Oct 2008
On 22 October, the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications will again be deliberating on the Broadcasting Amendment Bill. The ‘Save our SABC' Coalition is sending a letter to the Chair of the Committee, Ismail Vadi to object to certain proposals to amend the Bill suggested by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP).
Media Monitoring Project
23 Oct 2008
The Minister of Communications decision to challenge the issuing of telecoms license is harming consumers. According to the minister, the "free-for-all" license would jeopardise her managed liberasation policy.
My Broadband
22 Oct 2008
An organisation of over 100 journalists in Argentina has drawn up ten "commandments" for news coverage of gender-based crimes, which include avoiding expressions like "crime of passion" and incorporating terms like "femicide."
IPS
21 Oct 2008
U.S students have created a fun game that aims to help Cape Town youths fight domestic violece. This forms part of a broader campaign by the United Nations to combat gender violence.
Taiwan News
21 Oct 2008
The war against HIV/AIDS will not be won unless sexual and gender-based violence is reduced, experts are realising. Participants at a recent regional meeting looking at linkages between violence against women and girls and HIV/AIDS described the two as dual pandemics that needed to be addressed concurrently for the HIV/AIDS fight to be successful.
Inter Press Service
20 Oct 2008
A teenager hacker has admitted carrying out a cyber attack that crashed Church of Scientology websites as part of a campaign by a mysterious underground group.
My Broadband
20 Oct 2008
It's over two and a half years since the appointment of Michelle Bachelet as Chile's head of state, - how has her presidency impacted women's rights and gender equality?
Association for Women's Rights in Development
20 Oct 2008
Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) reviews a book about sustaining women's rights activists. What's the Point of Revolution if We Can't Dance? Is a book about one thing women's rights activists don't usually talk about: themselves.
Association for Women's Rights in Development
20 Oct 2008
On 18 October, three women embarked on the Women on Waves ship to sail to the high, free seas. The ship was accompanied by three other boats filled with press. The ship is ruled by Dutch law. Under Dutch law, women with unwanted pregnancies can take the abortion pill free of charge and without the permission of a psychiatrist that is required by Spanish law.
Health System Trsut
20 Oct 2008
On 14 October, the five men arrested in connection with murdering Simelane in April this year appeared before Magistrate Juke Mokoma.
Behind the Mask
20 Oct 2008
The second Pan-African film festival, intended to raise awareness of the various forms of violence committed against women in Africa, will open in Dakar, Senegal, on 26 November.
United Nations population Fund
20 Oct 2008
A community in eastern Uganda has banned the deeply rooted practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), an official has said.
BBC News