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About AWCFS

The African Woman and Child Features Service (AWC) is a Nairobi-based media organisation with an African regional outlook.

AWC has been active in training journalists and other media practitioners as well as NGOs in the region in the area of gender, media and development. It has assisted in the production of training manuals for organisations, gender mainstreaming policies and content for media houses and training women on how to access and effectively use the media for development.

Events

May

International Day of Families
May 15, 2008

December

16 Days of Activism
December 25, 2008

May

UN World Press Freedom Day
May 3, 2009

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Conference Newspapers

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Minutes 2: The second meeting of senior media women on the Kenyan crisis

8 January 2008

The second meeting of Senior Media Women Editors in Kenya was held today with the aim of firming the activities of the Heal the Nation Campaign scheduled to be launched on Monday 14th January 2008.

The group was in agreement that if they were going to heal the nation the focus of the campaign should not be just to end the crisis but also help the country to reflect on historical injustices that have not been dealt with.

Kenya's Women Journalists Telling Stories of a Country Full of Hope and Potential

In recent days, Kenya has been talked about in the same breath as Rwanda, Liberia, Afghanistan and others, with analysts breaking down our history to a conflict between two 'tribes'. Terms such as 'Ethnic genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' have been bandied about with no regard to the real issues behind the on-going unrest and blood shed in the country.
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Meet a Kenyan Woman

Jane Njoki

She walks with her head held high and her gaze is steady. She is a source of knowledge and comfort to her sisters and their children camping out at Nairobi’s Jamhuri Park.

Although she has no warm place to lay her head at the end of each long day, she exudes warmth and joy even on a drizzling January afternoon. She has no apologies to make about her Kenyan identity: “My name is Jane, and I am a proud Kenyan from Kibera Kianda,” says the mother of two university-going sons.

WHAT'S NEW

Treatment and Discussion of Rape in Kenyan Newspapers today

Preliminary report of a study commissioned by African Woman and Child Feature Service as part of the Sixteen Days of Activism against Gender Violence, November 25- December 10, 2004

Gender Based Violence Report

A snapshot of Kenyan Newspapers’ coverage of violence against women December 10, 2005 to October 2006

Heal the Nation Campaign

A group of women journalists have come together, facilitated by the Swedish and Norwegian envoys in Kenya, and launched an initiative called 'Healing the Nation'.

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Media Diversity Centre

Gender & Governance Programme

The GGP was developed by different stakeholders comprising women leaders and women centred civil society organisations and supported by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and development partners such as the Swedish International Development Agency, the Royal Netherlands Embassy, the Royal Norwegian Embassy and DFID.