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The Center invites applications for its RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIPS for 2009-2010 from scholars and teachers at all levels of the educational system, as well as from artists, community organisers and political activists, both local and international.

Women from South Africa, participated in the South African feminist meeting at AWID, and this is the statement resulting in a meeting in Cape Town.

CHAT network MXit is implementing parental controls to stop children abusing the service.

Deputy Minister of Education, Andre Gaum has expressed appreciation at the international support South Africa has received in the vast field of information and computer technology.

Although transgenderism is an umbrella term for a cross section of identities, this blog from Black looks uses a series of articles to illustrate what this means in a sort of transgender 101 sense; basic transgenderism.

Former Executive Director of AWID, Joanna Kerr, acknowledged the participants and organisers of the Feminist Tech Exchange which ended yesterday (12 November) in the lead up to the 11th AWID Forum on Women‚s Rights and Development which gets underway tomorrow (14 November).

Research and sound policy decisions will be be used to tackle gender and economic issues in the Middle East and North African region.  Women in these regions still occupy few positions in the work force.

Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez vetoed a law decriminalizing abortions in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, arguing it violated the right to life, the office of the presidency said on Saturday.

The stoning death of a 13-year-old rape victim in Somalia has prompted a response from citizens and religious leaders throughout the Maghreb.

Surveys have shown that more than a quarter of women in Armenia have experienced physical abuse from their husbands.  Reporting a violence case is stigmatized in Armenian and as a result, these women remain in these abusive relationships.

Gender activists in Swaziland are furious that only seven women were appointed to the House of Assembly and the Senate after the September elections. 

Women from different backgrounds in Turkey are working together to fight against gender inequality. A Turkish newspaper spoke to these different women about the "fierce debates over the placeof Islam in secular Turkey were reflected in the form of conflicts among those working to promote a women's rights movement here". 

The Democratic Freedom Party's presidential running mate Patience Ameku, has promised to reduce maternal and child mortality when her party is given the mandate in December. She also said her party is committed to solving issues related to women empowerment.

Women'sNet is taking part in the Feminist Tech Exchange taking place three days before the Awid Forum.  The workshop will give women an understanding of how technologies can be used by women's rights movements. 

This sourcebook combines descriptive accounts of national and international experience in investing in agriculture with practical operational guidance on to how to design agriculture-for-development strategies that capitalise effectively on the unique properties of agricultural growth and rural development involving women and men as a high-impact source of poverty reduction.