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Efforts to improve agriculture in Kenya often miss the mark by targeting men instead of women. One woman spent 20 years organizing female farmers to share investments and training. Now men are joining too, and the women's work is paying off.

Naila Ahmed never even considered the possibility of divorce despite enduring several beatings at the hand of her husband. However, during one their regular quarrels, her husband decided that he could not live with her anymore and asked her to leave ‘his' home and announced his intention to divorce her.

Ines Alberdi the executive director of UNIFEM there has been progress in the past 20 years in terms of creating awareness about HIV/AIDS. She said on this World AIDS Day, we should on only commemorate but we should celebrate. 

The violence that characterized the presidential run off elections left a trail of disaster in Zimbabwe. The state sponsored post election violence from May 15 to 29 July 2008 left hundreds of women and girls traumatized because of rape which was used and continue to be used as a weapon of war.

In 2003, "Green River Killer" Gary Ridgeway confessed to having strangled ninety women to death and having "sex" with their dead bodies.

South African health experts say HIV-positive mothers on anti- retroviral (ARV) treatment can breast-feed their babies without fear of passing on the virus.

Gay is the new black, say the protest signs and magazine covers, casting the gay marriage battle as the last frontier of equal rights for all. Gay marriage is not a civil right, opponents counter, insisting that minority status comes from who you are rather than what you do.

AS WE move into the 16 Days of Activism Against Violence campaign, we need to ask ourselves what we are doing as individuals to help to fight the abuse of women and children in our society.

Some of the poorest countries in Africa have put in place appropriate laws and policies to protect child rights than wealthier countries. The countries have allocated their limited resources to the provision of basic needs for their children and the funding arrangement has helped greatly in protecting the children against exploitation and harmful traditional practices.

SATURDAY, November 29 was International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, a special day to recognised the work of those who fight for the rights of women.

As the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign kicked off on Tuesday, a serial rapist was convicted of raping four women and attempting to rape two more.

A new study has tried to find an answer to the question whether race or gender plays a role on who is eligible for a liver transplant. The report from Dr. Cynthia Moylan and colleagues at
Duke University Medical Center in
Durham, North Carolina discovered a new disparity - between men and women.

Only three women have been appointed cabinet ministers in the new government that was announced by newly elected Zambian President Rupiah Banda.

For 16 days of activism against VAW, the Association for Prograssive Communications Women's Programme (APC WNSP) calls on all ICT users to stretch and hone internet skills and strategies for activism to ensure women's safety online and off.

The "Save our SABC" Campaign, representing key trade unions, NGOs, CBOs and independent producer organisations has been at the forefront of a campaign to address the crises at the public broadcaster, the SABC, for some months.