On 24 April 2017, the Centre for Human Rights hosted its first consultative meeting on the Model Law on the rights of intersex persons in Africa. The meeting gathered together intersex rights activists in South Africa, coming...
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 4 April 2017—UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, regrets the decision by the United States to deny any future funding for its life-saving work the world over. This decision is based on the e...
Social Media Community Manager 9 months fixed term contract (part-time) Ending 31 December 2017 The AIDS Foundation of South Africa is seeking to appoint a dynamic and highly motivated Social Media Community Manager for it...
Issuance Date: February 20, 2017 Closing Date: March 27, 2017 Funding: Grants will be provided to organisations proposing innovative ways to address the inter-sectionality between child marriage and one or more of the fol...
6 February is International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM Like all forms of violence against women and children, FGM needs to be fought every day, to prevent the horrendous suffering it causes. The best place to start is b...
Collen Masimirembwa, University of Cape Town Antiretrovirals have significantly improved the lives of people living with HIV. Today there are more than 17 million people on treatment and the number of deaths from the disea...
From Gordon Darroch in The Hague. Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd. Up to 20 countries have indicated support for the Netherlands’ plan to set up an international safe abortion fund to plug a $600m funding gap c...
On 17 Jan 2017, FEMNET moderated the #YoungWomenSay Twitter Chat with an aim to articulate what engendering the #DemographicDividend entails as well as Amplify Young African Women's Voices and Priorities ahead of the 28th AU ...
Submissions for Skills Building/Training Workshops at the South African AIDS Conference are now being accepted. Kindly send the topic, motivation and outline of the session to have it considered for the Conference programme t...
From Women Deliver There are six candidates vying for the esteemed position of Director-General of the WHO. It is more important than ever to know where they stand on fundamental issues like maternal, sexual and reproducti...