|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|||||
| Human Rights and HIV/AIDS Campaign | ||
|---|---|---|
 |
An Awareness and Action Project,targeting two districts
in the Northern part of Malawi:Mzuzu and Nkhata-bay.The project focuses
on creating mass awareness on Human Rights and the rule of law, mobilising
and supporting communities action to respond to violations and abuse through
advocacy, counselling to victims and referr to institutions that provide
redress. The project also helps reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS, and encourage
moral behaviour.
In its campaigns the project demonstrates to the communities the link between Human Rights and HIV/AIDS. The project is supported by CORDAID-Netherlands. |
|
| |Top of Page| | ||
| Human Rights Awareness Campaign | ||
| An Awareness and Action Project. The project focuses on creating mass awareness on Human Rights and the rule of law, mobilising and supporting community action to respond to violations and abuses through advocacy, counselling to victims and referral to institutions that will provide redress. It is a three-year project in Mchinji district. The project is supported by Open Society. |
 |
|
| |Top of Page| | ||
| Eradicating Violence Against Women In Schools | ||
 |
Women's Voice is currently running this project which is
creating awareness to the extent of violence against women in schools and
how best to eradicate it. Of concern is the issue of increasing violence
against girl child, her persistence and performance/achievement in school.
The project also encourages teachers and students to form gender clubs
schools which will be responsible for monitoring Human Rights violation
in schools and of course encourage equal participation.
The project is supposed by Canadian Teachers Federation(CTF)
|
|
| |Top of Page| | ||
|
|
||
| Paralegal programme is designed to empower
community leaders at grassroot level with knowledge in law and human rights.
Impact Through training, paralegals have skills to deal with social problems without recourse to courts of laws. They are able to act as the eyes and ears of the community. |
 Women's Voice Paralegals also give legal aid services to those
whom by indigence or any other reason cannot afford the lawyer fee on the
market by referring to appropriate institutions that will provide redress.
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
||
| There is a vital absence of women in leadership positions.
the reasons for these include low education to many women, hindrance by
traditional culture, men's monopoly and absebce of preparations for women
to take up leadership roles.Women's Voice conducts leadership trainings
to build up a nursery for women leaders across the country.
The trainings cover campaign strategies, public speaking, fundraising and working with people in identifying and solving problems. In order to build capacity national wide in the communities Women's Voice identifies women from different walks of life and trains them in areas of constiution, statutory laws of Malawi and women's rights. These trainings have so far targeted women traditional leaders, teachers, opinion leaders, social workers, the youth and men. Women's Voice also targets women parliamentarians. Trainings are organised to strengthen their capacity and skills as development managers. The women Members of parliament are equipped with skills of responding to the needs of the electrorates and sensitised in gender and development. |
||