The launch of the Southern African Development Community Protocol on Gender and Development may not have been accompanied by a snazzy PowerPoint presentation like that of the free trade area, but its reach extends far beyond anything the 15 men who lead the region could ever have imagined.

By Colleen Lowe Morna

It's hard to talk about people in Hebrew. What gets in the way is gender.

A study[i] recently published by the Kenya-based Institute for Economic Affairs shows that gender disparities in Kenya persist despite numerous interventions. This comes as no surprise, but provides an opportunity for introspection for the women’s movement in the country.

By Kathambi Kinoti

[i] Institute for Economic Affairs (2008) Profile of Women’s Socio-Economic Status in Kenya. Nairobi

GenderIT writer Mavic Cabrera-Balleza probes on new analytical frameworks of violence against women taking into account cyber violence and the challenges and dilemmas women activists confront as they struggle to address this relatively new dimension of gender injustice.

For several years now it has been recognized that HIV and AIDS is a feminized phenomenon. Women’s rights activists have asserted that in order to address the pandemic, it is necessary for women’s rights to be central to interventions. Now it seems like the battle for a women’s rights centred approach could be over before it has barely even begun.

By Kathambi Kinoti

Singapore has an estimated 160,000 migrant domestic workers – an overwhelming majority of them women. Singapore’s labour laws, however, still exclude domestic workers from key protections guaranteed to other workers, and as a result, exploitation is rife.

Culture of misogyny, illegal occupation, fuel sexual violence in military. By Helen Benedict.

For the Latin American and Caribbean region, the best outcome from the International Conference on AIDS being held in Mexico City this week may be what happened just prior to the conference.