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Legal Rights (cont.)

Women & Children

Sources

Overview

  • The Women's Legal Rights organization teamed up with the USAID Africa Regional Bureau and selected Madagascar as a focus country for WLR activities
  • Judicial capacity to enforce women's legal rights is weak

  • Women and children in rural areas depended greatly on a potential recovery plan
  • Women make up almost 50% of Madagascar's population
  • Life expectancy of women is at 67.5 years
  • Unmet need for contraception of married women ages 15-49 is at 19%
  • The condom use for the population of ages 15-24 is merely 3%
  • Malagasy womens' health care and benefits, violence against women, education, and their legal rights
  • The country is currently in an economic and political crisis, and making investments to make changes for women in the country

  • Brouwer, Ruth Compton 2004. “Issues of Gender, Race, and Class in the Norwegian Missionary Society in Nineteenth-Century Norway and Madagascar”. International Bulletin of Missionary Research. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 Mar. 2012.
  • "An e-world apart: developing the Internet in poor countries can be a difficult business." OECD Observer 268 (2008): 18+. Academic OneFile. Web. 4 Apr. 2012.
  • “Gender Links: For Equality and Justice” Gender Links Publications Retrieved at April 2, 2012
  • (http://www.genderlinks.org.za)
  • “World Development Indicators Database” The World Bank Retrieved at April 10, 2012
  • (http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org)
  • “World Stat Info” Madagascar: General Information Retrieved at March 23, 2012.
  • (http://en.worldstat.info/Africa/Madagascar)

A forgotten Island

Madagascar

  • Located in the Indian Ocean, 250 miles off the eastern coast of Africa
  • Madagascar is the world's fourth largest island
  • A population of approximately 20 million
  • Tropical climate, with the most diverse plant and animal life in the entire world
  • Affected by a major economic crisis in 2002

Education

Health Care

Current Status

  • Women in the country came together to form an association called Femmes Interessee au Development de Antalaha (FIDA)
  • Women in rural areas were desperately in need of more information about reproductive health and better access to contraceptives
  • In result of the economic crisis, there were cuts to women's health care and benefits
  • Madagascar has one of the lowest HIV/AIDS prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Unresolved political crisis created havoc in the Madagascar education system
  • Literacy rate among females increased 64%
  • The impact of the political and

economic crisis is impacting

children severely

  • The government is facing

a minimum 20-30% decrease

in the education budget

  • Funds and materials are

failing to reach schools

  • Madagascar faced one of its most devastating economic crises in 2002
  • The country was forced to join

some smaller African countries

HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries)

under the supervision of the

  • Increasing drop of GDP meant

little job opportunities in

markets where it was already

  • extremely difficult for poor

rural women to find jobs

  • Nearly 70 percent of Malagasy live below the poverty line

Legal Rights

Women in Politics

Antananarivo

  • Women throughout the country struggle to establish a viable role in society
  • Laws put women on the same equal status of men, but since economic struggles, there is a lack of resources to implement such laws
  • Gender-based inequality is the combination of philosophical, socialogical, and economic frameworks
  • Personal/Household level: emotional abuse, threats, and actual use of physical force
  • Societal and community levels: tradition, culture, and religion
  • Report on the SADC COnference on Gender and Development; Chapter 4: Human and Legal rights of women
  • The country is not ready to have a woman in any sort of power
  • Women are being influenced as more women are taking political power and positions
  • Of the 32 cabinet members, 5 are women
  • Out of more than 1560 municipalities, only 67 are led by women mayors
  • Though the numbers are small, the number of women in politics is rising each year

  • The capital of Madagascar is Antananarivo
  • With a population of 1.6 million, growing at a rate of 3.5% per year
  • 1 million of the population have inadequate water and sanitation services
  • Working towards more sustainable improvements within the city
  • Improved roads lead to more job opportunities

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