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GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges
By Madi Ceesay
BANJUL - The Beijing Platform for Action in 1995 set out an agenda to address gender equality in priority areas, including poverty, education, and health care. It also committed governments to address violence against women, equitable access to economic resources and decision-making power.
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Q&A: Recognise the Benefits of Slowing Population Growth
Susan Anyangu interviews STAN BERNSTEIN, senior policy advisor UNFPA
KAMPALA - Family planning: key to reducing child mortality and improving maternal health; a way to put less strain on the environment; and a smaller population makes the challenge of providing adequate education and health services that little bit easier.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Women Central to Adaptation, Mitigation
By Nastasya Tay
PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa - Poor women will bear the greatest ‘climate burden’, says the United Nations Population Fund in its 2009 State of the World Population report, released today.
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Q&A: Women Should Be More Than Window Dressing
Jedi Ramalapa interviews Ingrid Srinath, Secretary General of CIVICUS

JOHANNESBURG - Women in developing countries are among the most vulnerable to the effects of crisis - be that climate change, food price hikes, the HIV/AIDS pandemic or the global recession. It is becoming more commonplace to hear women's testimony, but are women's voices heard when it comes to deciding on solutions?
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SWAZILAND: Help Sex Workers - Senator
By Mantoe Phakathi
MBABANE - It is one of the world's oldest professions, dating so far back that it is even mentioned in the Bible. But in the deeply cultural and religious country of Swaziland, Senator Thuli Msane stirred a hornet's nest when she publicly challenged a new strict bill opposing prostitution.
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UGANDA: Helping Hand For Homophobia From U.S. Christians
By Christi van der Westhuizen
CAPE TOWN - The Anti-Homosexuality Bill under consideration in Uganda was sparked by a conference in Kampala earlier this year at which fundamentalist Christians from the U.S. identified homosexuality as a threat to "family values".
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RIGHTS-UGANDA: "You Cannot Tell Me You Will Kill Me Because I’m Gay"
By Wambi Michael
KAMPALA - The Ugandan government will put to death gay citizens repeatedly caught having sex and throw into jail those who touch each other in a "gay" way, if a new proposed Bill becomes law.
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RIGHTS-CAMEROON: The Reverend Raped Me

By Ngala Killian Chimtom

YAOUNDE - A countrywide survey of the incidence of rape in Cameroon has returned disturbing statistics: 20 percent of the nearly 38,000 women surveyed reported having been raped; another 14 percent said they had escaped a rape attempt.
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SIERRA LEONE: New Dawn for Small Farmers?
By Mohamed Fofanah
KAMBIA DISTRICT, Sierra Leone - They call her "Marie Nerica", after a new breed of rice.
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KENYA

: Practical Measures Needed on Teen Sexual Education
By Susan Anyangu
MOMBASA - Kenyan teenagers are having sex. And they appear to have no clue how to go about it.
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WATER-BOTSWANA: A Garden In the Heart of the Village
By Nicholas Mokwena & Terna Gyuse
MOKOBENG, Botswana - Look, there's no drama with the borehole in Mokobeng. And that's the way it should be.
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