Nominees should be women, currently active and have over the years demonstrated a passionate interest, campaigned for and stood firm for the defence of women's and girl's human rights in Kenya. The award is intended for women whose contribution may not obviously have been recognized at the national level. According to a statement from COVAW (K) "the nominating organization or individual must have direct experience of the nominees work."

In celebration of International Women’s Rights Day The Human Rights Institute of South Africa will be launching a Women’s Rights Training Manual and conduct a workshop on the use of the manual.

This conference, organized by African Women's Charity Organizations, is a platform to support the unity of all African women organizations, women's organizations of churches, and the women of youth organizations, in an international sisterhood. Issues on housing, childcare, education, transportation, and clean drinking water will be at the forefront of the conference.

This press release details the first graduatuation of women from the CISCO Networking Academy at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).

New research from Webchek indicates that 49 percent of South African Internet users are women.

The AIDS epidemic has added a new dimension to one of the oldest sayings, a sociologist reports: It's always the woman who pays. A new study shows that women with AIDS generally feel more isolated and shunned than men with the disease, according to Bronwen Lichtenstein, a research assistant professor of sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, whose report appears in the February issue of the journal AIDS Patient Care and STDs.

A recent international women's conference in Nairobi, jointly organized by the International Council of Women, the Council of Women of Kenya and the Finnish Embassy, urged governments to recognize the role women play in alleviating poverty and combating HIV/AIDS, and in particular urged African governments to implement policies that provide women with credit and skills.

This volume responds to the demands of a growing number of educators who want to be part of a global movement towards peace through providing their students with learning experiences in holistic and gender-sensitive human rights and peace education.

The theme for this year's World Telecommunication Day (WTD), 17 May 2002, is "ICT for all: empowering people to cross the digital divide". In keeping with this theme and the strong gender component that it implies, the TFGI would like to take this opportunity to highlight issues related to gender and the digital divide on academic as well as active local levels, via concrete case studies, best practices and ideas that fit into the theme.

The National Council for Research on Women and the Center for the Study of
Women and Society at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York announce a Rockefeller-funded humanities fellowship program, "Facing Global Capital, Finding Human Security: A Gendered Critique". This interdisciplinary program will explore the uses of a human security framework for identifying
non-discriminatory, sustainable policies for women and girls, drawing
into dialogue critical theories in the humanities and social sciences, and
discourses of policymakers and activists.

The Horn of Africa Regional conference on Women & ICTs to have been held on
11-15 February 2002 has been postponed to 3-7 June 2002. This conference is being hosted by the African Centre for Women, Information & Communications Technology.

Twenty-six African women from 16 English-speaking African countries graduated from the Cisco Internet Networking Academy today after 280 hours of training at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The Gender Unit at IDRC has launched a call for proposals from developing country researchers interested in exploring the issues of gender, globalization, and land tenure. The competition aims to encourage cutting-edge research that will illuminate the role of gender in natural resource management.

Eight Egyptian men arrested for the "practice of debauchery" are likely to remain in jail for some time and could be subjected to torture, a local underground human-rights group has warned.

A working group calling itself "Women at Barcelona", made up of scientists, activists, service providers, women living with HIV, and others whose focus is women/HIV/AIDs has been formed to work on a Women's Satellite Meeting and other women's events at the International AIDS Conference at Barcelona in July of 2002. To get involved or learn more, visit the website below.

Ipas is pleased to announce several new publications addressing women's sexual and reproductive rights.

An Islamic court in the northern Nigerian state of Sokoto acquitted on Wednesday a 17-year-old woman charged with adultery, which carries a sentence of death by stoning.

Despite the criminalisation of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Kenya in December 2001, many communities continue to carry out the traditional practice, and attitudes towards it in much of rural Kenya are changing only slowly, according to a local nongovernmental organisation.

Since last year the Mifumi Project, a Ugandan NGO, has been engaged in a major campaign to reform bride price. This arose out of our work with rural people to alleviate poverty and promote social justice. In working to promote the rights of women bride price was highlighted as a contributing factor to poverty, domestic violence and the social inequality of women and children.