18 AUGUST 2017 STATEMENT BY THE RURAL WOMEN\'S ASSEMBLY (RWA) ON MAKING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN EVERYONE\'S ISSUE Violence No More! Hloniphani Imizimba Yethu! Respect our bodies! We, women from across…
18 AUGUST 2017 STATEMENT BY THE RURAL WOMEN\'S ASSEMBLY (RWA) ON MAKING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN EVERYONE\'S ISSUE Violence No More! Hloniphani Imizimba Yethu! Respect our bodies! We, women from across…
MS titled her story, “Background of seed”. She is a commercial farmer and uses indigenous seeds. Her story is a build up of what has been shared at the school…
An RWA regional delegation met with Ms Rosalie Ndeye Lo, Head of the NEPAD’s Gender Programme on 4 July 2017. She explained that NEPAD is the technical arm of the…
On 26th-29th June 2017, the RWA attended a workshop in Maputo organised by the Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power. The main purpose of the workshop was to discuss…
The Rural Women\'s Assembly (RWA) hosted its 3rd annual feminist school on 29 June - 5 July 2017. The theme of this year\'s feminist school was Land, seeds and labour:…
Southern Africa Rural Women’s Assembly 3rd Feminist School June 29th – July 5th 2017 Johannesburg, South Africa Land, seed and labour: “women carry more than half the sky” This…
Food sovereignty is keeping the indigenous seeds from generation to generation, enough to plow, sell and share with others. Central to being food sovereign, it is important to have seed banks at household, community and…
The Rural Women\'s Assembly interviewed Mariam Mayet from the African Centre for Biodiversity on the Bayer-Monsanto merger and the implications this will have for rural women in the region. Q:…
“How do we work together and create the spaces for us women to share our know-how, our experiences in our daily struggles within this patriarchal-capitalist global society while analyzing through…