DanChurchAid: Gender Equality

Women claim their legitimate share

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:40:18 GMT

Women's legal status is weak in patriarchal Palestinian society. The right to inherit is an especially weak point not least when it comes to the inheritance of land. The EU has granted 5,6 mio. kroner to DanChurchAid's work to secure women their legal right of inheritance.

Parents struggle for Justice

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:22:23 GMT

Dusty, worn down roads and a diversion through fields onto a muddy track lead to Kumha, a village located in Southern Bharatpur, - an upper caste Jat dominated district of Rajasthan. This is a village where a young Dalit girl was gangraped by three upper caste men. She committed suicide.

"Too risky to save in my hut"

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:02:59 GMT

Being a single mother of two in rural Malawi is no easy task for Joyce. Her income is highly unstable, and she has to rely on loans from friends and relatives during tougher times, since she has no means of accumulating savings. For poor people like Joyce, access to microsavings is the way to a better, more stable future.

Woman of substance

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:45:58 GMT

In Ballabhgarh village in India lives Sonedeyee, the first Dalit woman Panchayat (Local Self Government) leader. Sonedeyee was brutally attacked earlier this year by the dominant caste in the village. She is now fighting for her rights with the help of Centre for Dalit Rights (CDR), DanChurchAid’s Partner in Rajasthan.

Economic Empowerment of Women Conference

Wed, 20 May 2009 12:44:27 GMT

On 12 May 2009 Dan Church Aid Malawi hosted a land mark conference on “Economic Empowerment of Women – Call to Action towards Gender Equality” as one of its commitments as a MDG 3 Torchbearer to “do something extra” towards gender equality and women empowerment under the National MDG 3 Call to Action Campaign.

Five fish per intercourse

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:24:39 GMT

By the shore of Lake Malawi women offer their bodies as payment for freshly caught fish, since they have no money. The nightly activities spread HIV and produces fatherless children. SWAM project helps the women take better care of them selves.

Africa Commission policy notes

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:11:01 GMT

The Danish government has established an Africa Commission on effective development cooperation with Africa.

Husband and wife team up in Kyrgyzstan self help group

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:49:49 GMT

In Central Asian countries the fight for women to strengthen their rights and move closer to full partnership with men is well documented by international organizations. One example of such partnership in Kyrgzstan is Avazbek Balthabaev and his wife Paiza Bathaeva, who work as a team in both business and in self-help groups in their community.

Where have all the young men gone? Gone to Russia everyone

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:58:13 GMT

Where have all the young men gone, gone to Russia everyone," might be the modified refrain of a folk song in many a rural village in Tajikistan, at least for the women left behind. This is the 4th part in the series on self help groups in Central Asia, written by Peter Kenny.

Kazakhstan women met to combat loneliness, then tackled government

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:30:00 GMT

Margarita Zobnina, a medical biologist in the nursing profession, joined a women's group in her native Kazakhstan after the collapse of the Soviet Union, at a time when women faced not only increasing impoverishment but also loneliness.