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The African Woman and Child Features Service (AWC) is a Nairobi-based NGO with a regional outlook with vision of a media that enhances acceptance of diversity and gender equality for equitable development and a mission to promote diversity, gender equity, social justice and development in Africa through media, training and research.

AWC works closely with media managers and editors, civil society, media institutions in Kenya and Africa at large to provide quality information about issues around gender with biases on women and children and society in general.

AWC has had a long running programme of researching issues relating to local communities and publishing articles in the mainstream media on issues affecting African women and children and training manuals, working on campaigns and advocacy, investigative journalism , training of journalists, the civil society, media monitoring and the government and following up issues in the international arena especially UN conferences

 

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Gender & Elections Special Papers

Gender & Elections Special issues

We believe women are at the heart of Kenya's transformation. This election is going to present the highest number of highly capable women vying for elective positions. We've profiled some of the aspirants in our 3 publications, access the highlights via the links below:

Reject Online

Reject Online cover The latest edition of the Reject Newspaper is out. The Reject is a bi-monthly online newspaper by the Media Diversity Centre, a project of AWCFS.

Reject Online Issue 81Reject Online Issue 80|Reject Online Issue 79|Gender & Elections Special: Reject Online Issue 78Gender & Elections Special: Reject Online Issue 77Reject Online Issue 76| Other issues of the Reject Online

Kenyan Woman

Strength of a Woman

Strength of a Woman - Women, Land & Property

Strength of a Woman - Women, Land & Property

With this special issue on land and property rights, the Strength of a Woman, a product of the African Woman and Child Feature Service is again bringing you the untold stories of women, marginalised groups, challenges with the COK2010 and land policy and the need to connect the dots on issues with land using practical experience.

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Strength of a Woman - International Women's Day 2012

Strength of a Woman - Women, Land & Property

Strength of a Woman - International Women's Day 2011

Strength of a Woman - Maternal Health & Death


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