Monthly Corner
F Njahîra Wangarî - Book Chapter
Abstract
"This chapter blends African oral and written narratives, lived experiences with a genetic chronic disability and a Roman Catholic upbringing. These will be interrogated to illustrate the role of alternative explanations in influencing advocacy and activism for the lives, wellbeing, dignity and inclusion of persons with disabilities. Particularly, this chapter is an exploration of self-identity and how persons with disabilities are conditioned to view ourselves in specific ways while highlighting alternative perceptions available is presented by the author. It engages the works of several African and African-descendent authors who feature persons with disabilities as characters in their books and relies on narrative prosthesis as the basis for this engagement."
Alok Srivastava - Article in Journal of Generic Medicines
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Low cost generic medicines and its socio-economic impact –an empirical study in India, September 16, 2025
Claudy Vouhé shared Publication
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Corpus législatif sur la budgétisation sensible au genre (BSG), 2025 - French
"Legislative corpus on gender-responsive budgeting"
It relates strongly to the evaluation of public policies and gender equality by parliaments, as it is about Gender responsive budgeting.
Svetlana Negroustoueva shared Publication
Hooshmand Alizadeh Recently published book
now available from Springer.
Events
Public school education and the struggle for gender equality in South Africa
The UNISA website carries these news ‘The Council of the University of South Africa (UNISA) is proud to announce that, in a move unprecedented since the establishment of the university 148 years ago, it will have its first female Principal and Vice Chancellor, Professor Puleng LenkaBula with effect from 01 January 2021.’
Whilst many people were elated with this appointment many of us who have been engaged in the struggle for gender equality felt that the appointment has been long overdue.
The high-profile appointment of women at universities, corporations and government is most welcomed and it should have been happening many years ago. But these historically significant appointments should not make us loose sight of major challenges in gender equality within the public-school system. The high dropout rate of girl children at primary school level needs to be a permanent agenda on gender equality.
At the moment my intention is not to provide a panacea for what has been a major challenge in the South African school system but rather to ask what forums exist/ can be created to continue to fight this struggle. For a start, I will be happy to hear from my colleagues on this topic.
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