The Overview Report examines the connections between culture, gender and development and addresses key questions: What has gender and development got to do with culture? Is gender and development an ...more

This publication is designed as a tool for activists engaged in lobbying and advocacy related to women's rights within the family at the policy level as well as in communities. ...more

The World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR) was held in Durban, South Africa, from 31 August to 8 September 2001. Government representatives, NGOs and activists ...more

This document provides an extensive review of programmes to combat FGM. Beliefs around FGM are described as a ?mental map? which incorporates beliefs and practices that cause the whole community ...more

In 1993, due to concern about her own daughter, Annicetta Kiriga, from the village of Tharaka, just outside of Nairobi became involved in Maendeleo Ya Wanawake (MYWO), an organisation which ...more