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DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA:
Time For Action on Violence Against Women
By Joyce Mulama

ADDIS ABABA, Nov 21 (IPS) - Continued violence against women is one of the focuses of a continental meeting reviewing progress made towards achieving gender equality in Africa.

Participants in the sixth African Development Forum (ADF VI) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital are putting their leaders to task over their failure to implement international declarations made to end violence against women.

"There is much talk and signing of these things, and less action," Botha Mbuyiselo, of Sonke Gender Justice Network in South Africa told IPS at the sidelines of the event.