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1.	Women journalists in the eye of the storm
	Author: Katherine Ronderos	Date Written: 27 July 2012
	Primary Category: Gender	Document Origin: AWID
	Secondary Category: Media	Source URL: http://awid.org/
	Key Words: Women, journalists,rights violations,
	Summary & Comment: The number of women in journalism is increasing, as is the danger they are in when they expose the injustices and crimes of people in power. Networks like Human Rights Defenders, Committee to Protect Journalists, IFEX etc. are leading the mobilization of witnesses and activists locally and internationally to speak out and help protect them. JK
2.	Socially conscious woman makes her mark in a man’s world
	Author: Abram Molelemane	Date Written: 27 July 2012
	Primary Category: Gender	Document Origin: NGO Pulse
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.ngopulse.org/
	Key Words: Womens rights, stereotype, South Africa, Entrepreneurship
	Summary & Comment: In the not-too-distant past, women were refused the right to education let alone to work. That notion has thankfully changed, and more and more women are steadily empowering themselves and becoming leaders in the corporate world. Founder and manager of VN Industrial Armature Winders, Denise Naidoo, is just such a woman. She is truly ‘a lady in a ma . . . [expand]
3.	Sudan-Chad: The strains of long-term displacement
	Author: Correspondant	Date Written: 13 July 2012
	Primary Category: Gender	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Sudan	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: conflict, gender issues, IDPs, refugees, security
	Summary & Comment: Djabal refugee camp in eastern Chad, where some residents have stayed for nearly a decade after fleeing violence in neighbouring Sudan, illustrates some of the family and social problems engendered by displacement and dependency. Eastern Chad is recovering after years of a proxy war between it and Sudan, following a January 2010 agreement between t . . . [expand]
4.	Women look for a place in new Egypt
	Author: Mel Frykberg	Date Written: 2 June 2012
	Primary Category: Gender	Document Origin: Inter Press Service Africa
	Secondary Category: North Africa Region	Source URL: http://www.ips.org/africa
	Key Words: revolution, SCAF, womens rights, gender equality
	Summary & Comment: Women helped Egypt gains its freedom in the early months of 2011. However, the ascendancy of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces brought a number of negative changes to womens' rights to the country. Many women in the country recognize the road forward will not be an easy one. CJW
5.	Institute for War and Peace Reporting to launch radio programme for South Sudan
	Author: Simon Jennings	Date Written: 18 May 2012
	Primary Category: Gender	Document Origin: Institute for War & Peace Reporting
	Secondary Category: Media	Source URL: http://iwpr.net/report-news/
	Key Words: South Sudan, women’s rights, broadcast journalism training
	Summary & Comment: A mentoring and training programme for journalists in South Sudan will provide women with a platform to not only access information about women's rights, but also stimulate debate on issues such as female empowerment along the border of Sudan and South Sudan. While basic skills required for broadcast journalism will be taught, training will al . . . [expand]
6.	Sub-Saharan Africa’s maternal death rate down 41 per cent
	Author: WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA & The World Bank	Date Written: 17 May 2012
	Primary Category: Gender	Document Origin: UNFPA Africa
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://africa.unfpa.org/
	Key Words: maternal mortality, MMR, MDG5
	Summary & Comment: While slower than called for by the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), progress is being made in saving mother's lives as fewer women are dying in pregnancy and during childbirth. While Eritrea and Equatorial Guinea are on track to achieve MDG 5, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe are among sub-Saharan countries that have made no progress i . . . [expand]
7.	Action plan to end banishing of "witches" in Burkina Faso
	Author: Brahima Ouédraogo	Date Written: 7 May 2012
	Primary Category: Gender	Document Origin: Inter Press Service Africa
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.ips.org/
	Key Words: witchcraft, social exclusion, community
	Summary & Comment: All to often, horrible things are done to women targeted as witches in communities. Burkina Faso is implementing a programme to support women that have been driven from their homes, accused of witchcraft. Unfortunately, an end to these practices cannot simply be decreed away due to the traditional roots of this belief in the country. CJW