16 Mar 06 Egypt: Ministry of Education cancels celebration of Egyptian women's day.

The Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights is deeply saddened and extremely concerned about this cancellation and what it implies about the supposed support of the government for women’s empowerment and c

Women Living Under Muslim Laws

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Thanks to their innovative approach to using ICTs, WLUML was one of GN’s first web clients to use a CMS to manage their website. Within months of setting the sytem up in 2002, their flow of daily news stories and Action Alerts had picked up speed and content began appearing in French and Arabic as well as English. Since then, their site has become a unique resource base of thousands of articles documenting the issues and concerns of women whose lives are affected by Muslim laws.

6 May 08 Help save Southall Black Sisters

Southall Black Sisters LogoSign the Petition to No. 10 opposing Ealing Council’s threat to withdraw funding for SBS

Making waves in Cape Town

GreenNet’s gone global this week at the Feminist Tech Exchange in Cape Town. It’s been an inspiring 3 days of multi-media and wireless movement building, digital story telling, and social networking. 100 women from 46 countries are now wrapping up the training on the beach, and heading off to the city to make more waves at the AWID Forum. Read more on the FTX blog

13 Jun 08 Support the Iranian women rights activists

Change for equality petitionSign the petition to protest the arrest of nine women campaigning to end discriminatory laws.

19 Nov 08 Take Back the Tech 2008

Join us online for 16 days of technical action to resist domestic violence.

Network news and actions

14 Oct 09 Twitter can't be gagged: online outcry over Guardian/Trafigura order

Trafigura, a London-based oil trader connected with dumping toxic waste in Ivory Coast in 2006, was the most used word on micro-blogging site Twitter this morning.

18 Sep 09 Stand up to Mandelson's draconian internet piracy laws now

Mandelson’s law would mean that the government could disconnect anyone they suspect of downloading anything copyrighted. Only in June this year the government had ruled out draconian measures like this but now it appears Mandelson has caved in to the wishes of the music and film industry.

16 Sep 09 New Africa broadband 'ready'

The launch of the government-backed East African Marine System (Teams) comes as providers face a backlash over slow connection speeds and high prices.

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