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	<description>...for African women to live in a world in which there is social justice, equality and respect for women’s human rights.</description>
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		<title>Summit Communique: African Women Economic Summit Investing in Women Differently</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The African Women’s Economic Summit, held in Nairobi on the 19th and the 20th of March 2010, at the initiative of New Faces  New Voices (NFNV), in partnership with the African Development Bank (AfDB), resulted in the following conclusions and actions. For Africa to succeed and compete in the global economy, and reach the growth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communique by the African Women Leaders’ Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The African Women Leaders’ Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health was launched in Lweza, Uganda to coincide with the 15th General Assembly of the AU Heads of States Summit in Kampala, Uganda in July 2010. The Network seeks to strengthen women’s collective voice by providing leadership to reposition sexual and reproductive health and in particular, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN Women Born: Civil Society Celebrates Creation of Gender Equality Entity After Four Years of Advocacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE 30 June 2010 Contact: Charlotte Bunch, 732-642-5271 or cbunch@ig.org, Bani Dugal, 646-404-4210 or bdugal@bic.org, Rachel Harris, 301-535-9702 or rachel@wedo.org UN Women Born: Civil Society Celebrates Creation of Gender Equality Entity After Four Years of Advocacy The Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign celebrates the United Nations General Assembly resolution, agreed to on 30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The African Commission establishes Committee to protect PLHIV</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The African Commission on Human and Peoples™ Rights, meeting at its 47th Ordinary Session held in Banjul, The Gambia, from 12 to 26 May 2010 Recognising that the African Commission on Human and Peoples™ Rights has a fundamental role to protect the most vulnerable groups in Africa against human rights abuses; Recognising also that a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African Grantmakers’ Network (AGN)  Coordinator</title>
		<link>http://www.awdf.org/browse/1180</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Responsibility: Coordinate the African Grantmakers’ Network Reports to: AGN Steering Committee Liaises with: Member-organizations of AGN Location: The coordinator will preferably be based within one of the AGN member organizations, but other locations may be considered. Specific Responsibilities Working under the supervision of the Chairperson and Co-Chairperson of the steering committee of the AGN, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaiming Popular Culture to Promote Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment</title>
		<link>http://www.awdf.org/browse/1159</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 11:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) in collaboration with Lufodo Productions is convening an African Women in Film Forum, 16th-17th June 2010 in Lagos, Nigeria. This forum is being held to facilitate a dialogue on women’s rights with movie producers and writers, and establish a Gender Dialogue with the `Nollywood’ sector in Nigeria. In order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE AFRICAN WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT FUND AT THE 54th Commission on the Status of Women, February-March 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.awdf.org/browse/1070</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) will be participating in the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York, USA, as well as several parallel events, February 27th -8th March, 2010. On Monday 1st of March, 2010, AWDF will hold the New York launch of an exciting new publication ‘Voice, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 The Africa Forum for Women</title>
		<link>http://www.awdf.org/browse/1032</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statement from the Africa Women’s NGO Consultative Meeting Beijing +15 Review November 16, 2009, Banjul, The Gambia We, the representatives of civil society organisations addressing women’s and human rights issues across Africa, meeting in the margins of the 8th Africa Regional Conference on Women (Beijing +15) on November 15 and 16, 2009 in Banjul, The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEMNET BEIJING</title>
		<link>http://www.awdf.org/browse/1028</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[African Governments Challenged to Live-up to Commitments in the Beijing Platform for Action Civil society organisations meeting at the Africa Women’s NGO Consultative Meeting in the margins of the Eighth Africa Regional Conference on Women (Beijing+15) in Banjul, The Gambia, are calling on African Governments to urgently accelerate implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banjul Book launch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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