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This documentary illustrates, when the needs of women living in a particular geographical and cultural context are addressed, the entire community benefits.
This video showcases that violence against women is one of the most common forms of violence in the world.
To view the video, click on the play button on the screen below:
This manual is to enable young women to prepare and facilitate training on a host of issues that are important to them, including young women’s leadership and human rights.

Getting Involved
Submitted by wakabari on Mon, 2008-07-14 06:29.
How can I be involved as a volunteer in Kenya to reach out to the
women in the rural areas?"
The rural women in Kenya have been sidelined in the politics of the
How can we take the issues of local women leadersip to the national and international level
Submitted by cerue Konah Garlo on Fri, 2008-07-04 11:28.
I am an activist working to create an enabling environment for women at the community level to participate in government especially at the local level.
Kenya Finance docket should be managed by a woman politician
Submitted by wakabari on Thu, 2008-07-03 06:01.
I am young Kenya women. I am very disturbed by the current motion of no confidence with the Kenya's finance minister, Hon Amos Kimuya.

- In light of growing evidence of the central role women play in a country’s development, many African governments have implemented quotas to boost the number of women parliamentarians. The phenomenon dovetails with similar initiatives to increase access to education and health care for all women and girls.
- The Office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) of the U.S. Department of State released on June 17 a request for applications (RFA) for the Women Leaders Program. This program will award up to $1.8 million over the span of two years, continuing MEPI’s commitment to support the prosperity and advancement of women in the Middle East and North Africa.
- Kumari Mayawati, a daughter of so-called untouchables and India’s most maverick politician, stunned the nation last year when she won majority control of India’s largest state with an inventive political coalition that fused votes from up and down the ancient Hindu caste pyramid.

