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KENYA: Proposed Constitutional Amendment Sets Back Women’s Rights

By Susan Anyangu-Amu
NAIROBI (IPS) - Lillian Mutuku, a 34-year-old mother of three, describes her home in Katine area, in Kenya’s Eastern province Tala, as a harsh place to live. The soil is poor, she says, the sun beats down mercilessly and vegetation is sparse.

RIGHTS: Africa's Success Stories in Gender Empowerment
KENYA: New Bill to Improve State Witness Protection, If Passed
RIGHTS-SWAZILAND: Property Rights At Last for Women

SOUTH AFRICA: Gender Loses Out in Basic Education Crisis
Ann Hellman
CAPE TOWN (IPS) - With the 15th-year review of the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women taking place at the ongoing Commission on the Status of Women in New York, South African teachers and education experts say they fear that a special focus on the advancement of girls is getting lost amidst the growing levels of poverty in the country.

SOMALIA: U.S. Should Accept Islamist Authority, Report Says
Charles Fromm and Mohammed A. Salih
WASHINGTON (IPS) - The United States should accept an "Islamist authority" in Somalia as part of a "constructive disengagement" strategy for the war-torn country, according to a new report released here by the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on Wednesday.

HIV/AIDS

Women in the News: The Gender Wire

> Proposed Constitutional Amendment Sets Back Women’s Rights
> U.S. Should Accept Islamist Authority, Report Says
> Africa's Success Stories in Gender Empowerment
> New Bill to Improve State Witness Protection, If Passed

Economics - Finance

> Property Rights At Last for Women
> Pressure Mounts to Make Public Oil Agreements
> Will Poultry Project Live up to Expectations?
> What Fish may do for Western Sahara

> Proposed Constitutional Amendment Sets Back Women’s Rights
> Gender Loses Out in Basic Education Crisis
> Africa's Success Stories in Gender Empowerment
> New Bill to Improve State Witness Protection, If Passed

> Proposed Constitutional Amendment Sets Back Women’s Rights
> Gender Loses Out in Basic Education Crisis
> Africa's Success Stories in Gender Empowerment
> New Bill to Improve State Witness Protection, If Passed

Health - HIV/AIDS

> Landslides - Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come
> More Funds Needed for HIV Prevention and Treatment
> Five Years to Children Born Free of HIV
> Prescription Drug Abuse on the Increase

> Gender Loses Out in Basic Education Crisis
> Pregnant Teens Forced Out of School
> Informal Sector Lures University Graduates
> Long-distance Learning Certificate for Caregivers

> Small Is Beautiful, Say Independent Power Producers
> Dam Critics Won't Go Away
> No Oil Company Will Know Peace in the Creeks
> Addressing Energy Crisis Through Alternatives and Efficiency at Household Level

> Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature
> Landslides - Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come
> Patrilineal Inheritance Prevents Women’s Access to Land
> Climate Change Is Changing Farming Methods

Religion, Culture, Gender and Rights

Africa - A Globalising Continent

Rip & Read - Radio Service

Children on the Frontline

Bitter Pill - Obstacles to Affordable Medicine

Farming the Future Africa

The Southern Africa Water Wire

Active Citizens

CHANGING LIVES: Making Research Real

Africa: Polls to Polls

From Aid to Trade with Africa: Fact or Fiction?

More Africa News

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MALAWI: Patrilineal Inheritance Prevents Women’s Access to Land

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: ‘We Will Demonstrate, As They Celebrate’

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: More Funds Needed for HIV Prevention and Treatment

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Five Years to Children Born Free of HIV

SOUTH AFRICA: Community Fears World Cup Will Cause Homelessness

MALAWI: Climate Change Is Changing Farming Methods

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Prescription Drug Abuse on the Increase

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