Introduction to Women'sNet

Women’sNet is a feminist organisation that works to advance gender equality and justice in South Africa through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). We provide training and facilitate content dissemination and creation that supports women, girls, and women’s and gender organisations and networks to take control of their own content and ICT use.

Our website is a hub for information by women, about women and gender, and has a focus on South African and African content. We help  women to find the people, issues,  resources and tools they need for social activism.

What's New?

The Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) is looking for experts to join their coordinating group.

Meetings in the provinces between the Government and its social partners, to analyse and discuss issues related to domestic and intra-family violence, as well as women participation in decision making bodies in the country, topped the agenda of the Ministry of Family and Women Promotion in 2008.

South African broadband users say they don't just want high speed and low cost from their broadband providers but are also asking for higher caps and better usage of networks. 

The Women's Learning Partnership have raised their concerns for the serious situation of the human rights activist Shrin Ebadi.  They demand that the government of Iran gurantees Ebadi safety and her civil and political rights. 

Women rights organisations and activists in America and Iraq have recently raised their concerns over the "status of women under the new Iraqi constitution".  For a long time, they lobbied for the Bush administration to look at the issue of women's rights in Muslim countries.

Introduction to Women'sNet