Sister Namibia back issues from July 2004:
Dear readers.(Editorial)
Jul 01, 2004 ... Welcome to another edition of Sister Namibia, in which we bring you a profile of one of Namibia's staunchest champions for women's rights, Ottilie Abrahams. During the interview it became clear that the profile should actually have been a book, documenting the rich life experiences of this ...
Ottilie Abrahams: passionate about education for liberation.(principal of Jacob Marengo Secondary School in Katutura)(Biography)
Jul 01, 2004; ... For Ottilie Abrahams, principal of Jacob Marengo Secondary School in Katutura, the liberation struggle is far from over. She firmly believes that education is key to the development of self-esteem and critical thinking, which she sees as the foundations of development still lacking in a ...
Engendering local government.
Jul 01, 2004 ... In the Local Authority elections held on 14th May, women gained 45 percent of the seats on local councils in Namibia. Women's representation thus increased by roughly four percent from the 41.3 percent gained in the 1998 elections. While this is cause to celebrate, campaigners for ...
Open Letter to Local Authorities.(Namibian Women's Manifesto Network calls on political parties to study the national gender policy )
Jul 01, 2004 ... Women and children are the poorest of the poor. Women work as subsistence farmers, domestic workers and in the informal economy, many of them as single parents with little support from the fathers of their children. They hold families and communities together in the face of poverty, ...
Political participation of women with disabilities.
Jul 01, 2004; ... What is the present reality facing differently abled women with regard to participation in general? Are women with disability visible? If they are, where are they visible? What prevents their visibility? Do you see them in the family? Do you see them participating actively in the ...
Born to sing.(Patricia Ochurus)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Initially it was difficult to reconcile the woman sitting behind a desk occupied by a PC, stacks of papers and files to the woman I saw on stage just a few days earlier, leading a 'rainbow' crowd into a frenzy of song and dance. Her soft-spoken and serene demeanor belies a force that is ...
Survey findings launched on treatment for people living with Aids.
Jul 01, 2004 ... The National Association of People Living with HIV/Aids, Lironga Eparu, recently launched its HIV/Aids Treatment Consultation. This study was conducted among members of the organisation countrywide during 2002-2003 to establish the views and perceptions of HIV positive Namibians with ...
Facing the future together: extracts from the Report of the UN Secretary-General's Task Force on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.
Jul 01, 2004 ... "I don't want to die before I'm 110 with great grandchildren. I don't want to die before I turn 25. I refuse to sit down and watch my generation fall to pieces. I am going to make a difference. Will you?" asks Rumbidzai Grace Mushangi, 15, of Zimbabwe. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
From prisoner to presidential candidate: an interview with Vera Chirwa of Malawi.(Interview)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Vera Chirwa, together with her husband Orton Chirwa, was jailed by the colonial rulers for her role in Malawi's independence struggle. In Malawi's first government under Hastings Banda, Orton Chirwa became Attorney General and Minister of Justice However, when the regime turned ...
Namibian women's network.(Community action)
Jul 01, 2004 ... Established in 1997, the Namibian Women's Network (NWN) is a grassroots women's network that works towards solidarity among women, and lobbies and advocates on issues such as women's human rights as well as gender and development. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Marianne ...
Tanja Bause--photographer on the rise: bringing dire socio-economic conditions to the front pages.(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2004 ... About me [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I have been a newspaper photographer for nearly 8 years. I try to take photos from interesting angles and they must be interesting to the newspaper's readers. A photo should be able to stand on its own ...
Gender, Citizenship and Governance--A Global Sourcebook.(MATERIALS IN THE SISTER NAMIBIA RESOURCE CENTRE)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004 ... Gender, Citizenship and Governance--A Global Sourcebook This book presents four case studies: from India, Namibia, Pakistan and South Africa, describing civil society initiatives that have intervened in governance and brought about changes in institutional practice, aiming to ...
Beijing + 10: the way forward; An introduction to gender issues in Namibia.(MATERIALS IN THE SISTER NAMIBIA RESOURCE CENTRE)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004 ... Beijing + 10: the way forward An introduction to gender issues in Namibia The first paper in this publication reviews Namibia's record with international gender conventions and examines national and local gender policies and programmes of nongovernmental ...
Who should own the land? Analysis and Views on Land Reform and the Land Question in Namibia and Southern Africa.(MATERIALS IN THE SISTER NAMIBIA RESOURCE CENTRE)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004 ... Who should own the land? Analysis and Views on Land Reform and the Land Question in Namibia and Southern Africa This publication presents a selection of analyses and views on land reform and the land issue from within Namibia and in the southern African context. It ...
Women's Property and Inheritance Rights in Namibia.(MATERIALS IN THE SISTER NAMIBIA RESOURCE CENTRE)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004 ... Women's Property and Inheritance Rights in Namibia By Debie LeBeau, Eunice lipinge and Michael Conteh With legal analysis by Dianne Hubbard and Evelyn Zimba of the Legal Assistance Centre One of the challenges faced by women in contemporary Namibian ...
Mirage & other stories.(MATERIALS IN THE SISTER NAMIBIA RESOURCE CENTRE)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004 ... Mirage & other stories A collection of short stories and photographs by Amy Schoeman [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After many years of exposing Namibia's rugged landscapes through her lens, photographer Amy Schoeman more recently began looking at the landscapes ...
Big Mouths, Open Minds.(MATERIALS IN THE SISTER NAMIBIA RESOURCE CENTRE)(Video Recording Review)
Jul 01, 2004 ... Big Mouths, Open Minds As the last African country to gain independence in 1990, Namibia opted for democratic rule. Twelve years on, how have the abstract concepts of 'Independence' and 'Democracy' taken root in Namibia's urban landscape? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Women in War.(MATERIALS IN THE SISTER NAMIBIA RESOURCE CENTRE)(Brief Article)(Periodical Review)
Jul 01, 2004 ... Women in War War and conflict have historically been viewed as a masculine terrain. Traditional discourses position women in the private sphere as victims and community maintainers, while men defend the nation (and their virtue) and pick up the pieces once peace is attained. Yet ...
Vagina Warriors: an emerging paradigm, an emerging species.
Jul 01, 2004; ... I have sat with women in crowded factories in Juarez, in crumbling shelters in the back streets of Cairo, in makeshift centres for teenage girls and women in Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Pine Ridge and Watts, in mansions in Hollywood, in burnt-out backyards in Kosovo and Kabul, in a moving van ...
Afghanistan human rights activist wins Mann Award.(NEWS CLIPPINGS)
Jul 01, 2004 ... An international symbol of the steadfast courage required to demand basic human rights for girls and women in Afghanistan, Dr. Sima Samar was named the recipient of the 2004 Jonathan Mann Award for Health and Human Rights. Dr. Samar founded and directs the Shuhada Organization, the oldest ...
Number of women in new SA parliament up by ten percent.(NEWS CLIPPINGS)
Jul 01, 2004 ... The number of women in the new South African parliament increased by ten percent, from 120 to 131, in the April elections. With a national assembly of 400 seats, this has resulted in an overall proportion of 32.8 percent women in parliament compared to 30 percent in 1997. South ...
African women tired of conflicts.(NEWS CLIPPINGS)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2004 ... African women say they are tired of bearing the brunt of war and endless conflicts on the continent and now seek to be midwives to lasting peace in the region. The continent's women made an urgent call to African leaders to start taking the plight of women more seriously. ...
Property 'grabbing' from widows continues.(NEWS CLIPPINGS)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2004 ... Many widows and their children in Namibia and elsewhere in Africa continue to be victims of the practice of 'property grabbing' by some of their husband's relatives. This was acknowledged by traditional and community leaders during a three-day seminar on property, inheritance rights, ...
1000 Peace Women to receive Noble Peace Prizes in the year 2005.(NEWS CLIPPINGS)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2004 ... Observing that women do wonderful and important work in this world that is not recognised in their communities and societies, a group of 14 women throughout the world endorsed the idea initiated in Bern, Switzerland by one of the senior members of the Swiss parliament, Ruth-Gaby Vermot. ...
Sex trafficking stretches across Southern Africa.(NEWS CLIPPINGS)
Jul 01, 2004 ... Young South African women are being given false job offers to lure them into prostitution in Macau, a former Portuguese colony now under Chinese control. Women from rural China, many of them poorly educated, are being brought to South Africa for the same purpose. These were some of the ...
Malawi: inching towards that 30 percent target.(NEWS CLIPPINGS)(Malawi's women go for legislature seats)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2004 ... Slowly but surely, Malawi's women are making their presence felt in the country's traditionally male-dominated political arena. Twenty-seven women secured seats in the 193-member legislature during the recent general elections, held May 20. This may not appear a considerable figure, but it ...
UNICEF launches Child-to-Child Survey to get all children in school.(NEWS CLIPPINGS)
Jul 01, 2004 ... In honour of the Day of the African Child on 16 June, UNICEF launched a child-powered, global project to account for children not in school in order to accelerate the enrolment of all girls as well as all boys. For the project, called the Child-to-Child Survey, teams of school children ...
Alive and Free--the Woman in Me.(Poem)
Jul 01, 2004; ... <Pre> And had I not Risen above the pain and anger of your poisoned tongue I would have remained The carpet of the dust Of your wandering feet And had I not Appreciated the roundness Of my African build I would have remained Your fat and sloppy maid And had I not ...