CULTURE RELIGION AND GENDER

CULTURE , RELIGION AND GENDER

A TRAINING MANUAL FOR THE MEDIA

INTER PRESS SER

VICE

SERVICE

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Inter Press Service

First Published 2002

Published by Inter Press Service

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CULTURE , RELIGION AND GENDER

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Material in this training manual is largely based on information from the Impact of Religion

on Women?s Rights in Africa Workshop, held in Zimbabwe, 1 ? 2 November 2000.

The following people presented papers and participated in the discussion at the workshop:

Dr Farid Esack, SA Commission on Gender Equality;

Dr Musa Dube-Shoman, University of Botswana

Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki, FEMNET

Victor Mugwagwa, Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association

Dr Pat McFadden, SARIPS

Laeticia Kaijage, Tanzanian Women?s Media Association

Mercy Odouye, IWRC

Naira Khan, TARSC

Mercy Wambui, ECA

Pat Made, IPS

Farai Samhungu, IPS

Tafadzwa Mumba, IPS

Colleen Lowe Morna, Gender Links Associates

Zohra Khan, Gender Links Associates

Colleen Lowe Morna, Chloe Hardy, Zohra Khan, Shireen Motara of Gender Links Associates and Patricia

Made, Tafadzwa Mumba of Inter Press Service (IPS) contributed to the compiling of this manual. Special

thanks go to Mufuliat Fijabi of Baobab, Nigeria, for her insights on women and Islam.

The manual was tested at a workshop of African journalists convened by IPS in July 2001. Two more training

programmes using the Manual ? one for Francophone journalists and the other for Anglophone journalists

? were conducted by IPS in 2002.

The Ford Foundation funded the production of the manual, and the overall training programme and project

that led to the production of this manual.

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ..............................

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SECTION ONE

RELIGION, CULTURE AND THE GLOBAL CONTEXT

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SECTION TWO

RELIGION, CULTURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

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RELIGION

CULTURE AND TRADITION

HUMAN RIGHTS

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SECTION THREE

COVERING ISSUES RELATED TO GENDER,

RELIGION AND CULTURE .................................................................

SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

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CUSTOMARY LAW

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HARMFUL CULTURAL PRACTICES

RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM

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SECTION FOUR

GENERAL GUIDELINES AND IDEAS FOR COVERAGE

APPENDICES

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