I would like to thank the Human Rights and Peace Centre for inviting me here this afternoon to share my views on this bill. It is great that HURIPEC organized this to be a dialogue and not a debate because debates have a tendency to polarize and divide along irrational gut-level responses. A dialogue, on […]

Lesbians have always been present in various civil society movements, with gay men’s organizations, in feminist groups, as well as in the artistic sphere and in the fight for decolonization and independence of their country. In recent decades lesbians have been present in the fight for equal rights for women of colour, aborigen women, and […]

Dear Friends, Today, September 8 is the International Literacy Day. The 43rd to be celebrated since it was initiated by UNESCO in 1965. Its aim is to highlight the

In Solidarity: Statement by South African feminists – Caster Semenya and Gender Discrimination – the ‘elephant in the room’ We write in response to the controversy surrounding the 800 m women’s world running champion, Caster Semenya and the flurry of articles surrounding this sad saga. Some of those championing Caster’s cause accuse those wanting to […]

In Solidarity: Statement in Support of Mary Robinson, Presidential Medal of Honor Awardee The African Women’s Development Fund(AWDF)supports the nomination of former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson for the [United States of America’s]Presidential Medal of Freedom. Mary Robinson has been a longtime friend and supporter of the African Women’s Development Fund. She […]

In Solidarity: African Women and Human Rights Organisations across Africa Women across Africa are appalled by the decision to try a Sudanese woman journalist Lubna Ahmed Hussein and two others for violating the public dress code. African women and human rights organizations urged the court to dismiss the charges and abolish this repressive law against […]