A Communication Handbook: A Handbook for Women's Rights Organisations by the …

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978-9988-1-4419-7

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Communications Handbook: Developing Good Practice for Women's Rights Organisa…

Whilst more women's rights organisations recognise the need to strengthen their communications capacities, it is still a relatively low priority for most. The inability to prioritise communications…

International Efforts on Abandoning Female Genital Mutilation

Female genital mutilation (FGM), sometimes referred to as female circumcision or female genital cutting, isa harmful cultural practice without any known health benefit. Its short-term and long-term…

Integration of traditional birth attendants into prevention of mother-to-chil…

One of the fundamental challenges to implementing successful prevention of mother-tochild transmission (PMTCT) programs in Nigeria is the uptake of PMTCT services at health facilities. Several …

Affirmative Action as a Strategy for Promoting Women’s Participation in Pol…

While the use of affirmative action to increase women’s political participation in societies where socio-cultural factors militate against women’s political interests, popular measures do not g…

Designing a risk communication strategy for health hazards posed by tradition…

In African societies, traditional slaughter is linked to celebrations like weddings or births, as well as funerals and ancestor veneration. Participants in traditional slaughter of goats are at ris…

Securing Food through Women's Traditional Knowledge in Seed Security: The Cas…

Although achieving seed security is quite different from attaining food security, the crisis of food insecurity can be traced to seed insecurity. A discussion of food security, without paying atten…

Food Through Women's Traditional Knowledge in Seed Security

A discussion of food security without paying attention to seed security is, therefore, incomplete. the decision on the type of seed to conserve falls upon the woman who knows what characteristics o…

Harmful Traditional Practices against Women and Legislation

By harmful practices, we mean all practices done deliberately by men on the body or the psyche of other human beings for no therapeutic purpose, but rather for cultural or socio-conventional motive…

Traditional Leaders On The Frontline Addressing Harmful Cultural Practices to…

The aim of publishing this book is to share widely deliberations at the Indaba. This book targets traditional leaders in southern Africa and other regions of Africa, SAfAIDS partners implementing…