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One of the AWC's objectives is Content Creation. To this end the AWC has undertaken publication projects on specific subjects.

Nairobi +21

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Nairobi +21 Commemorating the Third UN World Conference on Women

This publication documents the landmark meeting for women in Africa and the rest of the world. Particularly focusing on how far Nairobi +21 has invigorated and transformed gender issues on the continent. Importantly, it captures milestones that will continue to encourage women in their quest for gender equality. Further, it reiterates the enduring priorities of engagement for gender equality that include political and economic empowerment for women, peace and security for development, ending violence against women, addressing socio-cultural norms that constrain women’s lives, and increasing women’s participation in key decision-making environments.

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Women Gains in the Proposed Constitution

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Cover of Women's Gains in the Proposed ConstitutionAs Kenya gears up for a referendum on the 2010 proposed constitution, GEM and AWC collaboratively compiled this document to give Kenyan women an opportunity to understand the issues that directly affect them in the proposed constitution. This document aims at making the contents of the draft accessible to as many women as possible by simplifying the language and explaining the implications of the provision that directly address gender equality. Overall, the audit reveals that by far this is a better document in terms of women rights than the current constitution.

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Promises & Realities: Taking Stock of the 3rd UN International Women's Conference

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Promises and Realities:Taking Stock of the 3rd UN International Women's Conference 4 World Conferences on women's issues have been organized under the auspices of the United Nations. The 3rd International Women's Conference held in 1985 forms the pivot of this book. This meeting recommended practical and effective steps for global action to promote equality, development and peace for women.

 

In the Shadow of Death: My Trauma, My Experience

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'In the Shadow of Death'

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The book, In the Shadow of Death: My trauma, my experience is public testimony on what the majority women went though during the post-election violence that engulfed Kenya immediately after the Electoral Commission of Kenya announced the results for the hotly-contested presidential polls of the December 2007 General Election.

The crisis brought to the fore a number of factors that separate our society but for long have been ignored by successive post-independence governments: poverty, land, inequality, tribalism, among others.

 
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Call for Papers for the Media & Diversity Journal

The Media and Diversity Journal is a research-based and peer-reviewed quasi-academic journal published three times a year in the months of April, August and December. It is published by the University of Nairobi’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the African Woman and Child Feature Service.

The Media and Diversity Journal (MDJ) is inviting submissions for its special issue on Identity and Conflict planned for December 2010.

Find out more on the MDJ and the Call for Papers

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Reject Issue 24

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.

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Kenyan Woman Issue 8 cover

 

The Kenyan Woman is a publication of AWCFS and is produced with support from United Nations Democratic Fund

Kenyan Woman Issue 8 | Kenyan Woman Issue 7 | Kenyan Woman Issue 6 | Kenyan Woman Issue 5 Kenyan Woman Issue 4

 

Media Diversity Centre

The Media Diversity Centre is a project of African Woman and Child Feature Service.

 

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