Eva Ramokobala and Lebo Marishane are back from the Citizen Journalism workshop in Cape Town. Women'sNet would like to thank all the participants for taking part of the workshop.
Sally is attending the Tactical Technology's Information Activism Camp in India.
AWID was represented at this year's World Social Forum by two staff members: Cecilia Alemany (Manager of AWID's Influencing Development Actors and Practices Strategic Initiative) and Sanushka Mudaliar (Manager of AWID's Young Feminist Activism Programme). In this interview they give a snapshot of their participation and experiences.
Rwanda is in the process of adopting male circumcision as a part of its national HIV prevention strategy, but experts worry that a spike in requests before a planned public awareness campaign has been launched could have negative implications.
HIV and AIDS have drastically increased the burden and need for care giving, especially in Africa, which hosts some of the countries with the highest prevalence rates.
As people around the world celebrate their loved ones on Valentine's Day weekend, activists are working to ensure that the ongoing horrors of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are not forgotten.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is kicking off a five-city tour of the United States aimed at highlighting the horrors faced by thousands of Congolese rape victims, while calling for an end to impunity for the perpetrators of the worst kinds of sexual violence.
"Worse than dogs and pigs" is how Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe described homosexuals almost a decade ago, when the gay community attempted to highlight widespread homophobia in the Southern African country.
The GMDC is a Southern African partnership between knowledge institutions and media development NGOs for the generation, collection, connection and dissemination of knowledge. In light of the upcoming elections in six Southern African countries, the GMDC plans to provide a forum for a series of on line and face to face debates on Gender and Leadership, culminating in a "Checklist for Accountable and Responsive Leadership.
A large number of cases of commercial sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism in Southeast Asia countries has been increasing significantly through the years. The World Tourism Organisation (WTO) reported that more that one million children are sexually abused in prostitution through tourism industries in all over the globe.
In addition, ECPAT International states that Asia, particularly Southeast Asia and certain countries in South Asia are the target of child sex tourists.
Freedom Network USA will host the Sixth Annual Freedom Network Conference on human trafficking. Presentations and workshops by experts on human trafficking issues include: interviewing techniques for victims of trauma; issues, methods and alternative solutions for housing; labor rights and trafficking; current research in trafficking; working with trafficked minors; legal needs of trafficked persons including adjustment of status and civil litigation; and many more.
