Online Directory on Gender
and Women Network Groups
Welcome to the Online Directory on Gender and
Women Network Groups. The directory currently contains information on the
following:
So far, entries have been organized in
alphabetical order. We wish you happy surfing!
An
NGO whose "...membership includes 2.5 million women of all social
conditions, above 18 years of age." Its President is Nana Konadu Agyeman
Rawlings, former First Lady of Ghana. Based in Osu-Accra.
http://www.dec31.org.gh/
ABANTU, founded in 1991, is "a human resource network promoting a gender and
African perspective." Projects include an internet training workshop, its
magazine, GAP Matters,
programs on poverty, governance, conflict, etc. Has offices in London,
Nairobi, Kaduna. http://www.abantu.org
In
English and
French. Covers the 1990s to the present. Books, articles, unpublished
reports, conference papers, theses. Citations include abstracts. Published
on cd-rom and the web. [KF] http://ceped.cirad.fr/avortement
On
the author's immigration to France from Benin for university education,
African communal life vs. the West's individualism, the importance of oral
transmission of culture and education. From the e-journal, Mots Pluriels
23 http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP2303ca.html
Reprints articles (on AIDS, ecology, gender, NEPAD, youth, human rights,
etc.) from the web
such as Inter Press Service
and AllAfrica.com
stories plus original in-depth
articles by its editors and others. . "a network of people
committed to Africa through its promotion of human rights, economic justice,
African perspectives and alternative analyses." The volunteer network
included members of the former "Toronto Committee for the Liberation of
Southern Africa (TCLSAC) which,... published the
Southern Africa Report (SAR)."
Based in Toronto, Canada. [KF] http://www.africafiles.org/
The
Africa Leadership Forum was set up in 1988 at the initiative of General
Olusegun Obasanjo,.... with the support of other individuals. Sponsors
conferences, publications. Its
Digital Library has
full text books online such as "Empowering
Women for the 21st Century,"
"Leadership Challenge in African
Agricultural Production," "Police
and Society," "The Settler Question in Nigeria: the Case of
Jos-Plateau," "Africa's
Agenda and the Role of the USA" (1993), "The Challenge of
Education in Africa" (1988),
"Ethics and professionalism in Nigerian
Banking Industry," "Ethics and professionalism in
Medical practice," "Population,
Environment and Climatic change: Their impact on Development
in Africa" (1990), "Local Government
in Nigeria," "Corruption,
Democracy and Human rights," "The
Media in Democracy." Also reports from the Africa Women's
Forums, the
National Women Peace Group, and an online newsletter, Akuko. Based in
Ota, Nigeria. [KF] http://www.africaleadership.org/
The
women's section has links to sites related to women,
short biographies of Kenyan women leaders, information on the
Forum for African Women Educationalists, and a link to the
Radcliffe/Harvard 1988 program which funded 4 African women leaders. Has
a chat room for women. Site now owned by African Lakes Corp., London.
http://www.africaonline.co.ke/AfricaOnline/coverwomen.html
Africa Policy
Information Center - African Women's Rights
Carries policy oriented reports on African women's health, political, human
rights, and links to related sites. APIC is based in Washington, D.C.
http://www.africapolicy.org/action/women.htm
Africa Update,
Vol VII, no. 3 (Summer 2000): Nigerian Culture and Society
Has
an article by Dr.Olayemi Akinwumi on "Women
Entrepreneurs in Nigeria: Notes on the Yoruba 'Alajapa' and 'Alarobo'."
Africa Update is the
newsletter of Central Connecticut State's African Studies Program. [KF]
http://www.ccsu.edu/afstudy/upd7-3.htm
Africa: Women in Post-War Reconstruction
Report of a Johannesburg conference July 1999 on "Women in the Aftermath of
War and Armed Conflict." Mentions Eritrea, South Africa, other African
countries. On the site of the Africa Policy Information Center, Washington,
D.C. http://www.africapolicy.org/docs99/aft9909.htm
Has
the African Women's Bibliographic Database and Women
Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa: 1763-1999: a Comprehensive
English Language Bibliography. Maintained by Davis Bullwinkle.
http://WWW.AfricaBib.Org
The African Women's Database provides
citations to English
language articles, books, govt. documents, theses, etc. from 1986 to date.
African Academy of Sciences, AAS
"started in 1985 as a continent-wide, professional, non-political and
non-profit scientists organisation." Describes programs, their publishing
arm,
Academy Science Publishers, the Africa Journals Support and Development
Centre, Capacity Building in Science and Technology projects, etc. Based in
Nairobi, Kenya. http://www.aasciences.org/
African Federation of Women Entrepreneurs (AFWE)
"a
Federation of National Associations of Women Entrepreneurs operating in 45
Sub-Saharan African countries. Founded in Accra June 3rd 1993 and registered
in Addis Ababa April 4th 1994, it was through the initiative of the Africa
Centre for Women (ACW) of the UN Economic Commission for Africa." Members
are self-employed women manufacturers and exporters of goods and services.
Sponsored the 3rd Global Women Entrepreneurs' Trade Fair and Investment
Forum and the People's Assembly, May 2000, Miami, Florida. [Their web site
domain name was taken over by a religious group.]
African Lives -_Washington Post
Stories of everyday life in Africa, by Stephen Buckley, for the
Washington Post newspaper.Topics include urban young people in Kenya, an
Ethiopian midwife, wife inheritance and AIDS in Kenya, urban family
obligations in Cote d'Ivoire, child brides in Cote d'Ivoire, effects of
civil war on the Dinka in the Sudan, funeral practices in Ghana. Includes
photos.[KF]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/africanlives/front.htm/
African Traditional Religion - Chidi Denis Isizoh
Isizoh's site has full-text articles such as "The
Role of Women in African Traditional Religion" by John Mbiti, "Crime &
African Traditional Religion" by S.A. Adewale, articles on Christianity,
Islam and African religions and a 49 page bibliography of books and
articles. http://afrikaworld.net/afrel/
African Women in Cinema Project - Beti Ellerson
"guide for researching and teaching African Women Cinema Studies, with a
guide to the film and book, Sisters of
the Screen as well as a
timeline, related links, and "voices" of African women in
cinema from diverse sources." Includes
bibliographies,
suggested films, excerpts
from comments by women directors. Dr. Ellerson is a Lecturer in Art History,
Howard University, Washington, D.C. [KF]
http://www.founders.howard.edu/beti_ellerson/afwmcin_pjt/afwmcin/idx_afwc_pjt.htm
African Women Journal
(Nairobi)
Print and online magazine published by the
New People Media Centre, Comboni Missionaries, Nairobi, Kenya. Web site
does not work in older Netscape browsers.
http://www.newpeoplemedia.org/African%20Women%20Journal/index.html
African Women's Media Center
(Dakar, Senegal)
The
Center's goal is to provide "African women journalists the training,
resources and tools they need to compete equally with their male
colleagues." The Center is a project of the International Women's Media
Foundation (IWMF). Their
Resource Directory provides a directory of African women's media
associations, national & regional media associations, press freedom
resources, fellowship sources, etc. Their
Courage in Journalism award honors notable African women journalists;
past winners are described. Has full text articles from their quarterly,
On the Wire, and a leadership handbook. http://www.awmc.com
Articles on African women from various sources (UNICEF, World Bank, IPS,
etc.). Based in Oslo, Norway.
http://www.afrol.com/Categories/Women/msindex.htm
A
discussion group open to anyone who is interested in African women's issues.
Sponsored by the
Association of African Women
Scholars (AAWS), based at Indiana University,
Indianapolis campus. http://www.iupui.edu/~aaws/afwosreg.htm To subscribe,
send email to:
listserv@listserv.iupui.edu
Agenda
(Durban, South Africa)
Quarterly South African feminist journal. Has the table of contents,
selected full text articles, and a
history of the magazine. Had an e-mail
factsheet. http://www.agenda.org.za
"research project for
Organizing for Development, an International Institute [Washington,
D.C.],... to
Ahfad Journal
(Omdurman, Sudan)
Published by the
Ahfad University for Women. Has the table of contents of recent issues.
http://www.ahfad.org/journal/
A
private university in Omdurman, Sudan dedicated to educating women.
Describes academic program, history, library, etc. They publish the
Ahfad Journal and are partners with the
Sudan-American Foundation for Education. [KF] http://www.ahfad.org/
Very
current news
from a variety of African news sources. From the long established Africa
News Service, founded by Reed Kramer. http://www.allafrica.com/women/
Amina,
le magazine de la femme
In
French. The table of contents of the latest issue and selected full text
articles from the print magazine.
Has short profiles of
"Les
cinquante femmes les plus en vue au Senegal"
http://www.senegal-online.com/media/amina/amina.htm
Site
for Somali women maintained by a Somali woman living in the U.S. Includes a
discussion forum, issues concerning the Somali diaspora, Somali marriage
(colonial times and present day), Raising Children In the Diaspora, links to
related web sites such as the Somaliland Women's Organization of Toronto.
The site title is based on
Queen Araweilo (account in Blackwood's Magazine Vol. 238, October 1938).
http://www.angelfire.com/ar/arawelo/index.html
Art Room (San Francisco) - Women Emerging: A Tribute to
Uganda
"East African fine artists present works having significance to the topic of
Women's Empowerment,..." "Over a dozen new original artworks were created
specifically for this event by such artists as Lilian Nabulime (Uganda),
Yvonne Muinde (Kenya), David Kibuuka (Uganda), and Stella Atai (Uganda)."
Includes "Women
Emerging: A Tribute to Uganda" - Exhibition review and analysis
by Dr. Aili Mari Tripp. http://www.theartroom-sf.com/WomenEmerging.htm
ASAWomen
Discussion list for members of the African Studies Association (U.S.)
Women's Caucus. The list owner is Kathleen Sheldon. To subscribe, send a
message to:
LISTSERV@listserv.ucla.edu
Associates for Change
(Kampala, Uganda)
"a
private consultancy firm which aims to contribute to efforts designed to
build peoples' capacities to bring the process of change firmly within their
influence and control." Has full
text papers in Adobe PDF - Building
Women's Capacity to
Participate in Governance
(July 1999), Putting Gender
on the Agenda of Economic Reforms in Uganda: The Invisibility of Women in
Formulation and Implementation of Policies for
Private Sector Development
(July 2000), Globalization
and Its Impact on Economic and Social Rights in Africa".
(September
1998). http://www.associatesforchange.com/
In
French and English. "a pan-African non-governmental organization based in
Dakar, Senegal. AAWORD undertakes and supports
research and training and
advocacy with the intention of promoting the economic, political and social
rights of African women. "Residents and resident nationals of Ghana, Nigeria
and Senegal are invited to apply for IFP
fellowships for graduate study
at accredited institutions anywhere in the world including Africa. IFP
provides support for up to three years of formal graduate-level study
leading to a Master's or a doctoral degree." http://www.afard.org/
Association of
African Women Scholars
AAWS
is a "worldwide organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging
scholarship on African women in African Studies..."Extensive site, includes
their newsletter, conference information, links to women-related sites,
information on their discussion list,
AFWOSCHO. Their
October 2001 conference is in Madagascar.
http://www.iupui.edu/~aaws/
Australian Digital Theses Program
"...a national collaborative distributed database of
digitised theses produced at
Australian Universities....provides access to PhD and Masters by Research
theses only." Databases of full text
theses.
AWOGNet, African Women Global Network
Ohio
State University (Columbus) is the national headquarters for AWOGNet, a
global organization to improve the lives of women and children in Africa.
Barrera, Giulia - "Dangerous Liaisons: Colonial Concubinage in Eritrea,
1890-1941"
Full
text
in Adobe PDF.
PAS Working Paper No. 1 (1996) from Northwestern University's
Program of African Studies. http://nuinfo.nwu.edu/african-studies/Publications.htm
News
re gays and lesbians by country, achievements, activities, arts & culture, a
library (books
articles / web sites), commentary (articles
/ letters), funding sources, legal issues (legal
status of homosexuality), religion, workplace,
women. Based in South
Africa. http://www.mask.org.za/
Bibliography of Lusophone Women Writers
- Univ. of Western Australia
Includes "Lusophone African Women's Writing: A Brief Introduction" by Tony
Simoes da Silva. The bibliography is by author surname, with links to
biographical information for some writers. From the Dept. of French Studies,
University of Western Australia.
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/FEMECalireLU.html
Bibliography of Research on Uganda Women 1986-2001
Prepared for a new book entitled The New Women's Movement' in Uganda
to be launched at the
Women's Worlds 2002 Congress, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. The
book is edited by Joy Kwesiga and Aili Tripp, and the bibliography is
prepared by Sheela Jhaveri and Margaret Snyder. The bibliography includes
book chapters, journal articles and sections on dissertations that will not
be included in the book. http://www.wougnet.org/documents.html#WomenBIB
Bockie, Simon - "The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and
the Antonian movement, 1684-1706" by John K. Thornton.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Review by Dr. Simon Bockie of
Thornton's book. Dona Beatriz, "a 17th-century Kongo woman of the ruling
elite, who claimed to be possessed by the spirit of St. Anthony, has been
called a Kongolese Joan of Arc because of her prophetically inspired crusade
to throw off foreign influences and restore both spiritually and politically
the fragmented Kingdom of Kongo."
http://www.riia.org/baf/reviews/thornthornto1.htm
Bradley, Candice - Women's Page
Candice Bradley, Assistant Prof. of Anthropology, Lawrence Univ., has links
to resources on
African women. http://www.lawrence.edu/fac/bradleyc/war.html
Bridge, Briefings on Development & Gender,
Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex
Produces reports, country gender profiles, etc. Has the full text of their
quarterly, Development and Gender in Brief. Has some full text
reports in Adobe PDF format such as "Country Gender Profile: South Africa
(Report No. 45, BRIDGE On-Line Reports, 1998, 127 pp.)
http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/
Contains full text conference papers and other studies by Bugaje.
Topics include Muslims and Islam in Nigeria, women and Islam, Islamic
education in Katsina State, etc. [KF] http://www.webstar.co.uk/~ubugaje/
California Newsreel, Library of African Cinema
149
Ninth Street, Suite 420, San Francisco, CA 94103
"CamFed is a non-governmental organisation working with rural communities in
sub-Saharan Africa to enable more girls to go to school and secure a
livelihood." Describes projects in Zimbabwe, Northern Ghana. Based in
Cambridge, U.K. http://www.camfed.org/
Cartmill, Randi S. "Occupational Sex Segregation in Global Perspective:
Comparative Analyses of Developed and Developing Nations"
This
is a draft version. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Demography
and Ecology, Working Paper 99-12, May 1999.
A Celebration of Women Writers
"Indexes" web sites on women writers by surname, country; includes
birth/death dates where available. Search their
database for women writers by country, name, ethnicity, date.
.Maintained by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Department of Computational Science,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. [KF]
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
Center for
International Private Enterprise
(Washington, D.C.)
"...a nonprofit organization that works to build democracy and market
economies globally." Sponsors the Sept. 27-29, 2000 "Africa
and America - A Gateway for Women In Business"
conference for women entrepreneurs. The Center is an affiliate of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce. [KF] http://www.cipe.org/
Center for
Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP)
Information on
abortion rights (by country), types of
abortion laws (by country),
Legislation on Female Circumcision/ Female Genital Mutilation in the
United States,
international news, a World's Abortion Laws
poster "detailing legality of abortion by nation, features information
on over 190 countries around the globe." Based in New York city and
Washington, D.C.
Has
full text reports (in Adobe PDF in French and English)
such as -
Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting Their
Reproductive Lives - Francophone Africa (Benin,
Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal)
Reproductive Rights of Young Girls and Adolescents in Benin:
A Shadow Report 19 p. 1999
Women's Reproductive Rights in Cameroon: A Shadow Report
21 p. 2000
Reproductive Rights of Young Girls and Adolescents in Mali
25 p. 1999 http://www.crlp.org/pdf/SRmali99en.pdf
Women's Reproductive Rights in Nigeria: A Shadow Report
29 p. 1998
Women's Reproductive Rights in South Africa: A Shadow Report
35 p. 1998
Women's Reproductive Rights in Tanzania: A Shadow Report
21 p. 1998
Women's Reproductive Rights in Zimbabwe: A Shadow Report
28 p. 1997
Centre d'Espoir pour Filles et Femmes
(Lubumbashi, Congo)
In
French, English, German. An NGO based in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (former Zaire) which seeks to improve the living conditions of young
unmarried mothers (14-25 years). E-mail:
ceffemmes-avenir@africamail.com http://pages.ivillage.com/ceffemmes/ or
http://www.ceffemmes.fr.st
Centre for the
Strategic Initiatives of Women
(Washington, D.C.)
" In
the Horn of Africa,
CSIW's strengthens women's political participation in civil society for
peace, democracy and human rights." Has a directory of Horn of Africa
women's groups, maps. [KF] http://www.csiw.org/There are
full text reports on -
Women's Right in Islam (Eritrea,
Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan)
Chanal
Africa, Le Magazine de la Femme
French language radio program for women. Requires a sound card, speakers.
http://www.radioafrica.com/radioafrica/programme.html#chanel
Full
text of a dissertation submitted for the Degree of M. Litt in Health Care
Resource Management, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland. "we
undertook this study to find the scope and magnitude of
clandestine abortions in
Thyolo, one of Malawi's 24 districts." Includes a chapter on "Abortion
and the Law."http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/2514/dissertation.html
Clark Atlanta University. Africana Women's Studies Program
"Founded in 1982, awards the Master of Arts and Doctorate of Arts. It is the
only degree-granting women’s studies program in an historically black
college or university and the only women’s studies program in the United
States which offers the doctoral degree in the comparative study of Africana
women. The Program is also the only Africana Women’s Studies program in the
world."
http://royalrandolph.home.mindspring.com/aws
Coalition on Violence
Against Women (COVAW) - Kenya
"non-partisan, secular, feminist network of individuals and organizations
who are committed to eradicating violence against women." Based in Nairobi.
http://www.nbnet.co.ke/covaw
Commission on Gender
Equality (South Africa)
Based in Braamfontein. It seeks to "promote gender equality and to advise
and make recommendations to Parliament or any other legislature with regard
to any laws or proposed legislation which affects gender equality and the
status of women.
http://www.cge.org.za/
Commission on Women in Mathematics in Africa
Part
of the
African Mathematical Union which also hosts a page on
Black Women in Mathematics. Maintained by Scott W. Williams, Professor,
Mathematics Dept., State Univ. of New York at Buffalo. [KF]
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/AMU/amucwma.html
http://www.col.org/wameet00.htm
Conferences
Horn of Africa
Regional Conference on Women & ICT, 11th - 15th February 2002, Nairobi,
Kenya
Women of African Descent: Reaching Out Across the
Diaspora, 10th Annual Women's Studies
Conference, October 6 - October 7, 2000, Southern Connecticut State
University, New Haven, CT.
http://scsu.ctstateu.edu/~womenstudies/wsconf99.html
Council of Europe.
North South Centre [Women and Democracy in Africa]
The
North South Centre seeks to to strengthen Co-operation and contacts between
NGOs from the North and the South. Held an
Africa-Europe Civil Society Forum,
Cairo, 2000; papers are available in Adobe PDF. Examples of the papers are -
Africa's desire to be different and transcultural values, by Mamadou Diouf;
In the Service of Democracy, by Michelles Ndiaye Ntab; Women and
Democracy in Africa, by Satta Niang, etc. http://www.nscentre.org/
Crehan, Kate - Fractured Community: Landscapes of Power
and Gender in Rural Zambia
Full
text
of the book. (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1997. 258
p. Series: Perspectives on Southern Africa ; 54.)
http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/africa/crehan/@Generic__BookView
The
full text of selected articles is available. Topics include women's issues
such as the 1990 special "Women
Represented," popular culture, literature, etc. Published by the
Graduate Program in Culture and Media Studies, University of Natal, Durban,
South Africa. http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/index.htm and
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/CA/CA.html
Development Through Radio Project
On
the Development Through Radio Project in Sierra Leone. "The project [of the
Forum of Conscience, in Freetown which] gives 30 women’s groups access to
policy makers and the wider development aid community through airing
their concerns and aspirations on national radio." Has case studies from
war victims, discussions on Reparations and Testimonials from the
community on a variety of topics and issues. On Sierra Leone's Truth and
Reconciliation Commission and the Forum Of Conscience (FOC), a Sierra
Leone based human rights organization. Has a survey of women’s radio
listening patterns in Sierra Leone. See also
Mercy Wambui, 2003 Reuters Digital Visions Fellow at Stanford
University.
[KF]
http://www.dtronline.org/index.html
Emotion.
Magazine du Showbiz et de la Femme
(Cotonou, Benin)
In
French. http://www.multimania.com/savane99/
enda-synfev (Environnement et Developpement du Tiers-Monde, Synergie Genre
et Developpement/Synergy, Gender, and Development) based in Dakar, Senegal
seeks to improve the lives of African women thru programs such as
femmes-afrique-info, an electronic network concerning the rights
and health of Francophone African women. [An IDRC
report by Sophia Huyer includes information on SYNFEV.]
http://www.enda.sn/synfev/synfev.htm
An Eternity of Forest: Paintings by Mbuti Women
Exhibit at the
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum. which presents the
vibrant barkcloth art of the Mbuti women of the Ituri Forest of northeastern
Zaire.
Music of the Mbuti has inspired contemporary Western musicians. Includes
musical slide show. "Once known as pygmies they inhabit one of the
worlds oldest rain forests. [KF]
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/mbuti/
Ethiopia (Government). Embassy (U.S.) - Women in Ethiopia
Summary only of the National Policy
on Ethiopian Women. On the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington,
D.C.'s web site. http://www.ethioembassy.org.uk/fact%20file/a-z/women-1.htm
South African magazine, aimed at a white readership. Has the well-known
cartoon, Madam and Eve, which features a madam and her maid, Eve. KF
http://www.naspers.co.za/tydskrifte/fairlady/
Famafrique
(Dakar, Senegal)
In
French.
"un espace de
communication et d'information pour les femmes d'Afrique francophone qui
agissent pour la promotion d'un développement durable." "développé par
ENDA-SYNFEV
(Synergie Genre et Développement, Environnement et Developpement du
Tiers-Monde,
Dakar, Sénegal)."
They publish an
e-journal, "La
toile d'elles" whose issues include directories of women's
organizations.
Has information on
follow-up meetings to the Dakar (5ème Conférence Régionale Africaine sur les
Femmes, 1994) et de Beijing (Quatrième Conférence Mondiale des Nations Unies
sur les Femmes, 1995) and a section on
Francophone African women's organizations.
http://www.famafrique.org
Contemporary black and white photographs (women,
children, elders) from Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Ghana,
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Nigeri and other countries. Dr. Fayemi is
Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
New York, NY. Site for Albofa Press, publisher of Dr. Fayemi's books, in
White Plains, New York. [KF] http://www.fayemi.com/
Female Circumcision
Africa Update,
newsletter of Central Connecticut State's African Studies Program has four
articles on female circumcision in the Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring 1996 issue.
http://www.ccsu.edu/Afstudy/upd3-2.html
Africa Update,
Volume VIII, Issue 3 (Summer 2001), Special on Female Circumcision
Revisited
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP):
http://www.crlp.org/ww_iss_fgm.html
"Changing
tradition to safeguard women.Villagers join campaigns against female
genital mutilation," By Nirit Ben-Ari, in
Africa Recovery (United
Nations, New York), Vol. 17, No. 1, May 2003
[Dirie]
Readers' Digest - Desert Flower - Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller
Excerpt from the book by Somali fashion model, Waris Dirie, Special
Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation for the United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Includes links on FGM.
http://www.readersdigest.com/rdmagazine/specfeat/archives/desertindex.html
FGM Research Home Page.
Page dedicated to research pertaining to and related to Female Genital
Mutilation. Includes a paper on FGM in Eritrea, the
archives of the discussion group, FGM-L. and links to other
information. http://www.fgmnetwork.org/
Global Women Intact - SiaAmma
- http://www.celebrateclitoris.com/index.html
Groh, Arnold -
Manual for the New Strategy Against Female Genital Mutilation.
In Adobe PDF format. 3nd edition. Also in Arabic, French, Portuguese,
Amharic, Swahili. Maintained by Dr. Arnold Groh, Berlin, Germany.
http://ling.kgw.tu-berlin.de/semiotik/deutsch/person/groh/NO_FGM.htm
Moolaade(May
2005)
Population Council
RAINBO: Research, Action & Information Network for the
Bodily Integrity of Women
United States. Department of State. Female Genital
Mutilation (FGM). Report on Female Genital
Mutilation as required by Conference Report (H. Rept. 106-997) to Public
Law 106-429. Pub. 2001. 51 p.
In Adobe pdf or in
html. http://www.state.gov/g/wi/rls/rep/c6466.htm
Wallace Global Fund
Westley, David M. "Female Circumcision and
Infibulation in Africa"
An
e-journal "forum for progressive, cutting-edge gender research and feminist
dialogue focused on the continent."
Full text articles online. Produced by the African Gender
Institute, University of Cape Town and its Strengthening Gender & Women's
Studies for Africa's Transformation (GWS Africa) Project.
http://www.feministafrica.org/
An
electronic discussion list, in French, sponsored by
enda-synfev (Environnement
et Developpement du Tiers-Monde, Synergie Genre et Developpement, Dakar,
Senegal) concerning the rights and health of Francophone African women.
http://www.enda.sn/synfev/fainfo.htm
FEMNET - African Women's
Development and Communication Network /
Réseau
du developpement et de la communication des femmes africaines
An
NGO based in Nairobi concerned with sharing information and ideas between
African NGOs to produce a more effective NGO focus on women's development.
http://www.africaonline.co.ke/femnet/index.html
One
page on African women filmmakers, especially Valerie Kabore, at FESPACO 97
the famous Burkina Faso film festival. There is also a page on Senegalese
filmmaker, Safi Faye and her film
Mossane:
http://www.fespaco.bf/mossane.htm
In
English and French. "Flame is a network of African sisters online committed
to strengthening the capacity of women through the use of ICTs [information,
communication technology] to lobby, advocate and participate in the Beijing
+5 process regionally and globally." Has full text documents, a
discussion list on "how women in Africa are using Information and
Communication Technologies (ICTs) as communicative and information sharing
mechanisms", http://flamme.org/
Forum for African Women Educationalists
Has
issues of
FAWE News, their newsletter online in Adobe pdf. http://www.fawe.org/
Forum for African Women Educationalists
- Nairobi, Kenya Site
A
pan-african NGO composed of "African women ministers in charge of national
education systems, women vice chancellors of universities and other senior
women policy makers in education in Africa." Offers small grants for female
education projects, sponsors the Agathe Uwilingiyimana Prize, has a list of
full members, and
associate members, the table of contents of its Newsletter, etc.
http://home.africaonline.co.ke/fawe/
Forum for African Women Educationalists, Tanzania Chapter -
FaweTanzania
http://www.nyenzi.com/fawetanzania/index.htm
Francophone African and Antillean Women. Gender, Race,
Geography.
One
page of information, with the program, for an April 25-26, 1997 graduate
student conference at Stanford University.
http://www.stanford.edu/~briano/
Francophone African Literature
From
the Dept. of French Studies, University of Western Australia on Francophone
African writers, esp. women writers. It includes interviews in French with
the writers
by the Dept. and from
Amina magazine,
information on the literature of Benin, Cameroun, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire,
Guinee, Mali, Senegal, Zaire,
biographical information on the writers, bibliographies, and a
directory of Francophone African book publishers. Includes an English
version. Editor of the site is J. Volet.
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/FEMEChome.html
Friedrich Ebert
Foundation. Associations et ONG féminines au Sénégal
In
French. Directory of women's NGOs in Senegal. Provides for each the address,
date created, membership figures, the director, financial resources,
activities, etc. [KF] http://www.fes.de/fulltext/bueros/senegal/00720toc.htm
Gender Issues and Activities in Malawi
Has
the UN Gender Policy Statement - Malawi. Hosted by
Malawi SDNP, a UNDP funded Malawi Government Programme.
http://www.sdnp.org.mw/gender/index.html
Gender Learning
Network [Kenya]
The
Network "consists of 23 women led grassroots non-governmental organisations
which are involved in promoting the social, economic and political rights of
women in Kenya." Includes a
directory of women's organizations in education, economic
empowerment, legal rights. Has
success stories about Kenyan women. [KF]
http://www.arcc.or.ke/gln/gln13sec.html
GENNET
Discussion list to facilitate discussion on gender-relations issues
primarily, but not exclusively, in South Africa. To subscribe, send email
to:
Gifts of Speech - Women's speeches
from around the world.
Sweet Briar College (Virginia, USA) hosts a site with speeches by
influential women including
Kenyan environmentalist and activist, Wangari Maathai on "Bottle-necks
of development in Africa", and
Gill Marcus - Deputy Finance Minister, South Africa "On Women in South
Africa". http://gos.sbc.edu/
Ginwala, Frene - "Women and the National African Congress:
1912-1943"
In
Umrabulo, Issue No.13,
4th Quarter 2001, quarterly journal from the African National Congress
(South Africa). http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pubs/umrabulo/
Provides grants to women's groups in
developing countries. Grants range from $500 to $10,000.
Targets groups working on female human rights, women's access to
communications, and economic autonomy. Based in Palo Alto, California.
http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/
"Global Women Intact's founder, SiaAmma, raises awareness of the practice of
Female Genital Mutilation, and proceeds for GWI, with her moving and
hilarious one-woman show, "In Search of My Clitoris". Has a discussion
forum. Based in San Francisco, CA.
http://www.celebrateclitoris.com/index.html
Primary health
programs, work with street children,
"repair of home and infrastructure, clinics, schools etc., and water and
sanitation" in Angola, Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique,
Sierra Leone,
Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe. "GOAL has been awarded the UNESCO King Sejong
International Literacy Prize for 2005 in recognition of its informal female
education programme
in Khartoum
Sudan." Has a "primary health
care programme and food and non -food distribution programme
in..... Darfur," [Sudan]. GOAL is an NGO established in 1977, based in
Dublin, Ireland. [KF] http://www.goal.ie/
See
also
GOAL USA. Describes health work in
Angola, Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone,
Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe.
Goga, Farhana -
"Towards Affirmative Action: Issues of Race and Gender in Media
Organisations. A Study on South
African Media Organisations (Print and Broadcasting)"
Full
text of the study. (Durban: UNESCO / Graduate Programme in Cultural and
Media Studies, University of Natal, 2001. 125pp.) The "study offers clear
benefits to the industry on constructive ways of implementing the Equity
Act, and in bringing about coherent and popularly supported affirmative
action and gender sensitivity within media institutions."
http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/unesco/
Report on some of the "key barriers to women's access to information
technology, as well as instances where women are participating in and
benefiting from the use of information technology."
http://www.usaid.gov/wid/pubs/it01.htm
Harvard Law School. Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Annual Review of Population Law
"a
database of summaries and excerpts of legislation, constitutions, court
decisions, and other official government documents from every country in the
world relating to population policies, reproductive rights and health,
women's rights, HIV/AIDS and related topics." Covers from 1974 + For each
country has links to
abortion laws,
female genital mutiliaton laws,
domestic violence laws,
HIV/AIDS laws. [KF] http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/population/
Heinrich Boll
Foumdation. Regional Office for the East & Horn of Africa
Its
main programs are on Gender, the Environment and Conflict and Dialogue. Its
partners are in the Horn of Africa, Kenya, Uganda. Based in Nairobi, Kenya.
[KF] http://www.hbfha.com/
Human Rights Watch -
"Scared at School: Sexual Violence Against Girls in South African Schools"
selected websites, specialized publications, information on scholarships and
training and research opportunities, among others.
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this comparative study is to examine how two separate societies express
women's roles in decision-making."
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Includes -
An examination of the impact of colonialism on cultural identity
by Denise Morden. http://adt.caul.edu.au/ "This paper is an examination of
colonialism, its effects on cultural identity, and its impact on the lives
of women in South Africa,
both black and white. The theoretical work relates to both personal issues
of displacement and alienation, caused by the
politics of Apartheid."
E-mail: NEWSREEL@IX.NETCOM.COM
Extensive film catalog, descriptions and background on the films, lists
their
videos by topic (tradition and modernity,
women and development,
etc.).
http://www.newsreel.org/
Report in Adobe PDF format: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/cdewp/99-12.pdf
[KF] http://www.crlp.org/
Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting Their
Reproductive Lives - Anglophone Africa
The Culture and Tradition of Women in
Somalia
Women's Work in Peace: Lessons from Training Projects in the Horn of Africa
Sponsored by the African Centre for Women,
Information & Communications Technology (ACWICT). "The
aim of the conference is to raise awareness on ICTs amongst women in the
Horn of Africa region and to explore opportunities for harnessing the
technology to work as a tool for their development." E-mail:
conference@acwict.or.ke The ACWICT is "a Non-Governmental Organisation
in Kenya committed to promoting the use of ICTs amongst Women in the African
Region." http://www.acwict.or.ke
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Written and directed by Ousmane Sembene.
Winner Cannes Film Festival 2004: Grand Prize, Un
Certain Regard. "Moolaadé deals with the difficult subject of
female circumcision. To
escape this ritual of "purification" organized every seven years, four
young girls flee their village and find protection with a man called
Collé, but their flight sends the local population into turmoil."
New Yorker Films
(pdf file):
http://www.newyorkerfilms.com/nyf/n_elements/moolaade_fl.pdf
New Yorker Films (pdf
file)
http://www.newyorkerfilms.com/nyf/t_elements/moolaade/moolaade_pk.pdf
Cannes Festival 2005:
http://www.festival-cannes.fr/films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=4198684
Reviews: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/moolaade/
Extensive program in
Africa. Use their Search to locate topics. Has a database of
full text reports (in Adobe PDF) on reproductive health,
female genital cutting. The Council was established in 1952 by John D.
Rockefeller 3rd and is based in New York city. http://www.popcouncil.org/
Based in New York, RAINBO is currently focusing its work on
the issue of Female Genital Mutilation. http://www.rainbo.org/
Has a
full text report, in Adobe PDF format, "Eradicating
Female Genital Mutiliation: A Donor's Guide" "This paper
summarizes the lessons learned during early efforts to oppose FGM in
Africa and provides guidelines to donors interested in supporting efforts
to eradicate this intolerable practice." http://www.wgf.org/reports.htm
Citations to (over 500) journals articles, chapters from books, books,
internet resources. Extensive Preface and a Country and Ethnic Group
Index. Westley is Africana Bibliographer, Boston University. In the
Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography, No. 4 (University of Iowa
Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa.)
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/proj/ejab/4/index.html
Women of FESPACO 97:
http://www.fespaco.bf/women.htm
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Full text reports include -
NEPAD
A New Path? 2002. (359 pages in
PDF) - covers historical background, democratic governance, economic
governance, environment consequences, role of
women, regional integration.
Authors include Adebayo Adedeji, Archie Mafeje, Thandika Mkandawire, Yash
Tandon, Horace Campbell, Peter Anyang' Nyong'o and others.
Sustainable Development,
Governance, Globalisation:
African Perspective. 2002 (188 p. in
PDF) - women's
issues, human settlements, Uganda, the Horn, Great Lakes, environment, peace
& conflict. Authors include Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, and others.
Gender
and Constitution-Making
in Kenya.
2002 (71 p. in
PDF)
Gender
Gaps in Our
Constitutions:
Women's concerns
in selected African Countries. 2002 (119 p. in
PDF) - women in Kenya, Ethiopia,
Somaliland, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe.