Media is key to overcoming barriers to women’s participation and progressively achieving gender equality in sport. However, bias still weighs heavily against women, and media often have little, or worse negative, impact on efforts by the women in sport movement to promote women’s and girls’ participation. Media tends to ignore women athletes and the various roles that women play in the sport industry...

Since the release of the SA Law Reform Commission’s discussion paper on adult sex work in beginning of May many individuals have written letters to the press condemning sex workers. While we welcome the public debate and discussion of the issue, we at the Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), have been alarmed at the level of personalized attack and abusive language directed at us.

"In 2010 the Global Fund will be facing a gap which we estimate to be around four billion dollars," Michel Kazatchkine told reporters in Madrid ahead of the fund's mid-term review meeting which gets underway March 31 in Spain. The two-day meeting in the eastern city of Caceres, which will be hosted by the Spanish government, will review the performance of the Geneva-based fund and consider additional funding needs for the organisation.

At the moment I'm reading my way through The Great War for Civilisation -- the Conquest of the Middle East, by Robert Fisk. Fisk has been covering the Middle East since the 1970s and is one of the best and most knowledgeable journalists writing about that region. It's a real education. Fisk really goes into the background and origins of the conflicts we are witnessing today and provides some sorely needed historical perspective.

It is a fact that in Africa even when elections have been declared free and fair by international observers, if one can investigate, there is always shocking founding showing that underground so called democratic policies and institutions, human rights and especially freedom of expression has been denied to citizens or a part of them.

Lupane Agenda conducted a Public meeting at Matshakayile Primary school on Sunday 26 April 2009 to discuss the successes and challenges of the Inclusive government’s first 71 days. The meeting was held under the topic, “The Inclusive Government’s first 71 days: successes and challenges”

Four farm workers were last week savagely beaten for talking to Deputy Prime Minister Authur Mutambara during his visit to ascertain the farm invasions in Chegutu. According to Chegutu West Ward 9 Councillor, Edward Dzeka, the four workers from Twyford Farm, which has been occupied by ZANU (PF) Senator Jamaya Muduvuri, told Mutambara about the incidents at the farm which is barricaded by ZANU (PF) youth militia.

The General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ) notes with concern the rising incidents of farm disturbances across the country. The disturbances, which have seen many farm workers being kicked out of their homes, are a complete disregard of the farm workers rights to continue living at a farm when new employers take over.

Things just take a long time to get done in Zambia. The nurses and medical personnel are on strike as well as the teachers because the government promised salary increases have not been honored. The donor countries are withholding their support to the Ministry of Health because of corruption. But who cares? Everyone is acting like it is business as usual. But it isn’t. People are dying in hospitals because of withdrawn labor for medical care.

God calls corruption sin. The message Zambians need to hear is that God judges sin. God will judge Zambia for our slaughter of children to curable diseases and for lack of moral conduct in public places. When a society is characterized by vices such as stealing, injustice and lack of acknowledgement of God the result is political and social turmoil.

In response one Zambian girl asked, “How can one be patriotic to a country which calls itself Christian Nation, has had four Republican Presidents who call themselves Christians and yet has become synonymous with HIV/AIDS, poverty, corruption, unemployment and general backwardness?”  This question gives us the summary of the problems and if we care enough, we can also see the possibilities.

I wanted to find out how advocacy is transforming lives and community in one of the communities where Jubilee Centre, the organization I work for is serving. Jubilee Centre exists to empower churches, communities and their leaders to grow spiritually, flourish physically and have a voice in the world on issues that concern them.

It’s a job done by many traffic officers whom every person can observe the great job done either in the morning or evening hours. Conducting vehicles isn’t a simple task somebody can joke with because it’s determination and hard work. Radio stations are also in the process during mooning hours informing people were to defeat this jam on certain roads.

Globally traditional journalism has been superceded by information and Communication technological advancement. Gathering news, writing, editing and publishing through newspapers, magazine and broadcast over Radios or television is traditional journalism and is no more. Internet modernized journalism. Time immemorial, journalism was a professional career where by news was personalized to professional journalists and only telecasted on televisions and broadcasted over the radios.

The first Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Programme (CAADP) day meeting was held in Tripoli, Libya on 27th June 2009, organised by the African Union Commission and the AU-NEPAD, hosted by the great socialist people’s Libya Arab Jamahiriya. The purpose of the meeting was to showcase the CAADP at the 13th Session of the AU Assembly of the head of state and government.

Mugema zone Kasubi Parish Kampala District, the area was shattered by cries from a woman who was attacked and beaten to almost death because of cohabiting and sharing a husband on the morning of Sunday 21st June 2009. At around 10 o’clock in the morning of Sunday Nantaale (Not a real name) who lives in the Mugema zone - the suburbs of Kampala shared a husband and after her colleague realized this she waited for the time to come for her to revenge to such an act.

ICTs are widely recognised as key tools that can enable the participation of poor women and men in economic and civic life and help them to move out of poverty. However, most people abuse its condition by sharing confidential information. This results into suspicion, theft and mistrust which lay ground for violence.

Last week i attended a two days conference on sustainable tourism which was organized by Fredskorpset -Norway and Tanzania Media Women Association. One of the presentation was the role of media on promoting sustainable tourism in Tanzania. Participants in this conference were really complain about the journalists in Tanzania who have been going from one workshop/conference or meeting to get money.

Uganda is signatory to the Millennium Declaration - Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) that was launched at the UN summit in September 2000. The declaration set targets to be achieved by 2015 on eight key pillars which also strategically link with Uganda’s Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) a policy framework for achieving economic development.

Currently there is no biofuels policy in Tanzania but there is Biofuels Task Force (BTF) established in April 2006 to promote development of the sector and development of the legislation to stimulate the use of biofuels.
Despite the introduction of BTF in Tanzania there is still need for a biofuels policy because of their socio-economic negative impact. An overall view of Tanzanian land and environmental policy expresses the need of a new appropriate regulation.

Since the release of the SA Law Reform Commission’s discussion paper on adult sex work in beginning of May many individuals have written letters to the press condemning sex workers. While we welcome the public debate and discussion of the issue, we at the Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), have been alarmed at the level of personalized attack and abusive language directed at us.

ICTs are widely recognised as key tools that can enable the participation of poor women and men in economic and civic life and help them to move out of poverty. However, most people abuse its condition by sharing confidential information. This results into suspicion, theft and mistrust which lay ground for violence.

Wednesday 12th - Friday 14th of June the World Economic Forum will take place in Cape Town. Come and demonstrate against unfair power and economic structures! May our restistance be as transnational as capital!
Come and make your voice heard! Bring banners, horns, hooters… anything that makes noise and/or calls for attention. We will not pay for their crisis!
Thursday 11th of June 2009 12.00 – 2.00 pm

Wednesday 12th - Friday 14th of June the World Economic Forum will take place in Cape Town. Come and demonstrate against unfair power and economic structures! May our restistance be as transnational as capital!
Come and make your voice heard! Bring banners, horns, hooters… anything that makes noise and/or calls for attention. We will not pay for their crisis!
Thursday 11th of June 2009 12.00 – 2.00 pm

“Sou camponesa, semeio milho, amendoim, feijao e outras culturas. Sao culturas que nem chegam a reproduzir porque sao dizimadas pelos animais bravios. Agora que sao quase 18 horas, devo sair para machamba espantar hipopotamos . Todos os dias durmo na machamba.
Semear culturas e nao proege-las é o mesmo que nada”.

“O meu grande sonho é estudar, ter emprego e poder dar aos meus filhos uma vida melhor. Decidí voltar à escola porque vejo que para se acabar com a pobreza absoluta é preciso estudar. A enxada de agora é uma caneta, ou seja, saber falar e escrever”

Cerca de cem doentes desistiram do tratamento com anti retroviral devido a medida decretada pelo Ministério da Saúde de encerrar os hospitais dia, transferindo os serviços para os hospitais comuns. As associações que lidam com o problema ja convocaram uma reunião de emergência

Dez Organizações da Sociedade Civil (OSC’s) que trabalham na província de Nampula (parceiras do programa Facilidade), reuniram-se no passado dia 24 de Abril, no Distrito de Moma, a 210 quilómetros da Cidade de Nampula, para partilhar ideias e experiências de trabalho sobre o seu papel no apoio às Organizações Comunitárias de Base (OCB’s)