Source: Leadership
Female condoms are yet to gain acceptance from women in the country. Several fact-finding studies have shown just what is responsible for this. WINIFRED OGBEBO reports.
Source: BuaNews
Eastern Cape women have had enough of the systematic oppression and marginalisation they say they experience within the province's labour market.
Source: BuaNews
North West MEC for Social Development, Women, Children and People with Disabilities, Mosetsanagape Mokomele-Mothibi, is expected to address provincial rural women attending the Victim Empowerment Seminar
Source: The Herald
VICTIMS of rape have been urged to quickly report to medical institutions for treatment to prevent them from contracting HIV, pregnancy and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Source: The Herald
FEMALE soldiers have been challenged to volunteer for the elite commando training as the army seeks to have equal career opportunities for all.
Source: All Africa
Interview: Dr. Muhammadu Mai, General Manager, FCT Hospitals Management Board, Abuja, speaks with Victoria Awom and Judd Leonard-Okafor on factors responsible for the antenatal woes of pregnant women in the FCT,
Source: Nairobi Star
Women MPs have said they will not budge an inch in the proposal by Cabinet to reduce the one third quota of seats. The MPs and members of a women lobby group said they will fight to the last breath to have the status quo
Source: RNW
In Cameroon, widows are often go through to humiliating and degrading rituals to prove their innocence in their husband's death.
Source: All Africa
President Kibaki can now go ahead and swear-in five judges of the Supreme Court following a landmark ruling that rejected a case lodged by women lobby groups challenging their appointments.
Source: All Africa
A poor and HIV-positive South African may well hear advice about "living positively" with HIV, but this is guidance that many find impossible to follow.
Source: The Standard
There is nothing as painful as watching a child withering away with an illness which could have been easily avoided. But pregnant mothers still deny their children the right to live a healthy life by refusing to get tested for HIV and Aids early.
Source: BuaNews
South Africa deploys the largest number of female soldiers in peace-keeping missions compared with other troop contributing countries, says Defence and Military Veterans Minister Lindiwe Sisulu.
Source: The Monitor
Women activists are pushing for the re-introduction of the Marriage and Divorce Bill in Parliament. The activists demanded on Friday that the Bill be re-tabled as a matter of urgency so that it is debated and passed immediately after Parliament
Source: All Africa
Women activists are pushing for the re-introduction of the Marriage and Divorce Bill in Parliament. The activists demanded on Friday that the Bill be re-tabled as a matter of urgency so that it is debated and passed immediately after Parliament
Source: All Africa
African media faces immense gender disparities, with men taking up most of the top and specialised positions, a report by the Federation of African Journalists has revealed.
Freetown — The campaign to have female genital mutilation (FGM) outlawed in Sierra Leone seems to have taken a nose-dive with Bondo initiators - known locally as 'Soweis' - apparently continuing to have the upper hand in this struggle to eliminate a practice
Three years ago, Munit* was hungry, lonely and HIV-positive; her husband refused to be tested and she felt burdened by her secret status, unable to share her daily struggles with friends and family.
Source: Daily Nation
Many Kenyans support the constitutional provision that women form at least a third of MPs in the next Parliament, a new opinion poll has revealed.
Source: Nairobi Star
A majority of Kenyans would vote for a female MP or Councilor candidate if elections were held today. According to a survey by Infortrak Harris only 26% of Kenyans are against women candidates.
Source: The Independent
THE inauguration of the Government of Nation Unity (GNU) in early 2009 raised expectations regarding the role of women in Zimbabwe's new political dispensation. With women comprising more than 52% of the population