Source: All Africa
First lady Michelle Obama is stressing the importance of family and community in encouraging young women in Botswana to reach their goals.
Source: All Africa
Africa's billion citizens are the continent's greatest asset - the potential source of a dynamic workforce and an increasingly compelling consumer market.
Source: All Africa
New mass rapes by members of the Congolese army in the Democratic Republic of Congo are the result of the government's failure to bring human rights abusers to justice, Amnesty International said today.
Source: OHCHR
"We do believe that human rights have to be there from the very beginning, and the full commitment of the authorities is very important.
Source: News from Africa
An estimate of up to 100 women have been raped in an attack in the village of Nyakiele near the town of Fizi in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo by a former armed group integrated into the Congolese army,
Source: BBC
A former Rwandan women's minister has been sentenced to life in prison for her role in the genocide and the rape of Tutsi women and girls.
Source: All Africa
Madam Salamatu Ibrahim, Nkoranza South District Director of Health Services, has called on husbands to ensure medical care for their pregnant spouses.
Source: All Africa
A report released by the Gender Monitoring Office, shows that women massively participated in the just concluded local elections.
Source: All Africa
At least 254 former Sabiny female genital surgeons in three districts of Kapchorwa, Kween and Bukwo have received grinding machines to start up a new way of life other than depending on mutilating women.
Source: All Africa
Kenyan women have a huge task ahead if they are to achieve the basic one-third representation in the next government.
Source: ICC
The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has requested ICC judges for authorization to open an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Côte d'Ivoire since 28 November 2010.
Source: UN News Centre
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged societies to ease the hardship that widows endure when their husbands die by respecting their rights
Source: All Africa
A gender-sensitive political organization, "Network of Women Politicians" has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to improve on the number of Northern women in the proposed cabinet
Source: All Africa
President Ellen Johnson has been awarded the 2011 African Gender Award at a ceremony held Saturday night in the Senegalese capital, Dakar,
The Minister of Justice, Tharcisse Karugarama has said that violence against women and girls in African countries is an enormous challenge that rests in the hands of regional security organs.
First Lady Michelle Obama urged young Africans on Wednesday to fight for women's rights and battle the stigma of AIDS, using her husband's "yes, we can" campaign slogan to motivate youth across the continent.
What once was a quartet of entities dealing with women’s issues is now one and the pressure is on Michelle Bachelet, former president of Chile and newly minted United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of the new UN Women to make the case for “The Future of UN Women.”
Last Friday's recommendation to give the incumbent U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon another five-year term drew the international community's attention to another opaque, non- democratic process that is the hallmark of the 15-member Security Council's decision-making.
As an estimated 3.7 million dollars continues to sit idle in the Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) kitty, the very women the fund was meant to benefit have complained about the difficult requirements that need to be met in order to access the money.
Without a college education and against the backdrop of limited job opportunities, it was not easy for Salome Wairimu to find employment.