Gender advocates and women groups have faulted President Bola Tinubu's cabinet list following his failure to achieve 35 percent affirmative action.
“I can't allow my wife to do this work.”
Every year on July 31, the Pan African Women's Day is celebrated by the African Union. It is the anniversary of the foundation of the Pan-African Women's Organization in Tanzania in 1962, one year before the Organisation of African Unity, which is now referred to as the Africa Union was launched.
AUTHOR: Rai Sow
Signed 20 years ago, in the Mozambique city that bears its name, the Maputo protocol was a landmark treaty in the progress towards gender equality across Africa.
The Togolese authorities must urgently strengthen access to maternal healthcare in the country and reduce infant and neonatal mortality, Amnesty International said today to mark African Women’s Day.
Promoting gender equality in Uganda's labor market requires addressing the unequal allocation of unpaid care work between men and women, according to activists.
Violence, vote buying, and outright bulldozing in politics have been cited as major factors contributing to the low turnout of women in this year’s election after the country recorded a 3.4% drop in female candidates.
Kigali, Rwanda — In Africa, the fight against malnutrition and food insecurity has long been a pressing issue. But while significant progress has been made, a glaring disparity persists - the gender nutrition gap.
Kigali — Women's empowerment is like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripples it creates spread far and wide, benefiting everyone in society.
The Women's Association for Victims' Empowerment (WAVE) recently engaged women victims of torture for them to dialogue and to promote their participation in the country's transitional justice process.
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In every corner of the globe, the significance of land as the bedrock of shelter, security, and livelihood is undeniable.
Yet, almost 50% of the world's population - women - are denied equal rights to land, and often lack the legal rights to own or inherit land.
Medical professionals have called on the federal government to take urgent action to cut down the rising number of women and babies dying due to complications during childbirth.
All is set for the long-awaited Women Deliver 2023 Conference, which starts on Monday, July 17, with pre-events beginning on Sunday, July 16.
The Pakistani education advocate – who was shot by the Taliban for her activism - was speaking exactly 10 years after her landmark‘Malala Day’ address to youth at UN Headquarters in New York, where she called for global action against illiteracy, poverty, and terrorism.
Women escaping the M23 conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and seeking safety in mushrooming displacement camps are at risk of rape and sexual assault as an underfunded humanitarian response fails to keep them safe.
At the advent of South Africa’s democracy in 1994, an overwhelming majority of academics in the country’s public higher education institutions were white men. Black South Africans (a group consisting of those designated as Indian, Coloured, or African under apartheid) constituted 89% of the overall population. But they made up just 17% of the academic workforce.
Two decades on from a landmark treaty advancing the rights of African women, gender equality remains alive on paper, elusive in practice.
July 11, 2023, will mark the twentieth anniversary of the Maputo Protocol on African Women's Rights. By identifying the protection of women's rights as a foundation for sustainable development, the Protocol guaranteed African women and girl's fundamental rights, including the right to education and health.
In a groundbreaking turn of events, women in Bugiri District, Eastern Uganda, have defied societal norms and broken into the traditionally male-dominated fish farming industry.
Grassroots organizing, coalitions, and movement-building majorly contributed to South Sudan’s independence in 2011 from Sudan, in which women and girls played a significant role. While the promise and vision for the “New Sudan” embodied all, including women’s, liberation, the post-independence reality has been otherwise. This is not surprising because, throughout the liberation struggle, politicians used the women’s agenda without ever centering women or their freedom.