Women

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• Society: People: Women  (2,846)

African Gender Institute - - Building intellectual capacity and establishing an African resource dedicated to strengthening and advancing the work of intellectuals, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners committed to the attainment of gender equity.

African Women's Bibliographic Database - - An English language database containing over 19,000 citations from 1986 to current.

African Women's Development Fund - - Supports women's right to be treated as an equal within African society. Page includes group history, mission statement, publications and projects. [French, English.

APC-Africa-Women - - Network of organisations and individuals working to empower African women's organisations to access and use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for equality and development. Regional branch of APC's Women's Networking Support Programme.

Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS) - - An international non-governmental organisation working on issues of gender, peace and development, particularly with women peace-builders. Information about their organization, activities, events, publications and press releases. [English and French.

Femnet - - The African Women's Development and Communication Network.

Flamme - - Flamme is a network of African sisters online committed to strengthening the capacity of women through the use of ICTs to lobby, advocate and participate in the Beijing +5 process regionally and globally.

Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) - - Created in 1992 as a response to the slow pace of implementation of education sub-Saharan Africa. Includes overview, mission, programmes, publications and research.

GAIN: Gender in Africa Information Network - - The network encourages participation of documentalists, activists, researchers and journalists who have an interest and commitment to gender related issues in Africa and the dissemination of information.

Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa - - Stresses the importance of access to telecommunications for women and how that might help them to achieve full participation in African society.

Jenda: Journal of Culture and African Women Studies - - Jornal promoting the research and scholarship of African women to the global African community and friends of Africa.

Women in Africa's Development - - Africa Recovery/UN/Briefing Paper #11 on Women.