Dear Sisters,

Please join us in condemning the stripping of women in Malawi by endorsing the Strip-Me-Not Campaign.

The Strip-Me-Not Campaign is an initiative of the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) Coalition after learning that street venders in Malawi are stripping women and girls wearing trousers and short skirts. The campaign aims at standing in solidarity as African women to offer support to women and girls in Malawi by way of mobilizing many other women from across the African continent to denounce this barbaric act that violates women’s rights.

SOWAR is calling on all women and men of goodwill to endorse the Strip-Me-Not Campaign Statement.

The Statement with all signatories will be delivered to Embassies of Malawi across Africa, Office of the President of Malawi, Ministry of Gender and media houses in Malawi and Africa on 3rd February, 2012.

Your endorsements (name, organization, country and signature) should be sent to admin@femnet.or.ke before the end of day on 30th January, 2012.

Kindly circulate this call for action to your various constituencies in your country.

In sisterhood,

Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) Coalition

Dinah Musindarwezo
Executive Director FEMNET

Welcome to the Launch of the FEMNET Documentary and Research Report
“Promoting African Women’s Economic Empowerment through Gender - Responsive Trade Agreements: Experiences from Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Zambia

Date: 19th January 2012
Venue: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

For more information send an email to prog-associate@femnet.or.ke

AFRICA REGIONAL PREPARATORY MEETING FOR THE 56TH SESSION OF THE CSW

November 9, 2011 - Entebbe, Uganda

The focus of the 56th Session of the CSW, taking place in New York from February 27 - March 9, 2012, is “The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges.” This theme is particularly relevant to the African context, and African women’s voices and priorities should influence the discourse and actions on issues of rural women’s empowerment at national, regional and global levels.

African women’s regional organisations and networks including FEMNET, AAWORD, Akina Mama wa Afrika, EASSI, WiLDAF and WLSA will convene a regional preparatory meeting to deliberate on the theme of the 56th CSW, develop a draft common position from African women and harmonise our engagement leading up to, during and following the CSW.

The one-day meeting will focus on the gaps in implementing policy and legal frameworks that leave rural women disenfranchised, and will provide a forum for gender advocates living and working in rural areas to share best practices that can be replicated and scaled up in the course of the African Women’s Decade (2010-2020).

Participants will be drawn from the five sub-regions of the Continent and will include regional women’s organisations and representatives from national grassroots networks who will popularize the common position upon return to their respective countries/ sub regions.

For more information and updates send an email to advocacy@femnet.or.ke

African CSO Preparatory Meeting for the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Korea

“Better Aid for a World we Want!

7 – 8 November 2011, Entebbe, Uganda

African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), Uganda NGO forum and Reality of Aid Africa Network have teamed up to host a pan African Multi-stakeholder Conference on Consolidation the African Position Towards Busan in Entebee, Uganda on 7th – 8th November 2011......Read More

INVITATION TO A PUBLIC FORUM

The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) is a pan-African organization that works to promote African women’s collective leadership for equality, peace and sustainable development. FEMNET invites you to a Public Forum which is part of our Annual Regional Conference for African Women in Political Leadership, taking place in Nairobi from 29th – 31st August 2011.

The discussants at the Public Forum will be Female Presidential Candidates and Members of Parliament from across Africa, who will be discussing their role in “Demanding Accountability: Opportunities for Accelerated Action in the African Women’s Decade (2010-2020)”

WHEN: Tuesday August 30, 2011
WHERE: Sarova Panafric Hotel (Simba Conference Room)
TIME: 4:00pm – 6:00pm

Entry is Free. Refreshments will be provided

For further information please contact:

Nebila Abdulmelik
Tel: 020 2712971/2 or 0725766932
prog-associate@femnet.or.ke