Source: All Africa
For a woman who lives in the urban centre, has education, a job and a gainfully employed spouse- living on two incomes guarantees a sense of safety. For the rural woman, who performs unpaid household chores, has no education or any steady income or nutritious meal, and a spousal relation with a man of no means- life is a risk each and every hour.
Source: All Africa
Federal Government has appealed to states to commit their resources to gender education issues to fast track Nigeria meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
Source: All Africa
The women's lobby in Luangwa District has expressed happiness at the higher participation of women in this year's elections in Feira Constituency.Luangwa District women's lobby coordinator, Naomi Namula her organisation was impressed become more women had stepped forward to contest the elections.
Source: The New Age
UmlaziI township, south of Durban, is a hot spot for rape and domestic violence against women and children.
Source: The Post Online
WOMEN and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA) acting national coordinator Hope Kumalo says the Anti-Gender Based Violence Act has the potential to address gender violence in communities.
Source: All Africa
A group of teachers and students from Alliance Girls High School and Dartmouth University in the United States have launched an anti-Female Genital Mutilation campaign in Marakwet district.
For a woman who lives in the urban centre, has education, a job and a gainfully employed spouse- living on two incomes guarantees a sense of safety. For the rural woman, who performs unpaid household chores, has no education or any steady
Source: BBC News
Kenya's coalition government wants to drop the new constitutional requirement that women should make up a third of MPs in parliament.
A Europe-wide UN competition calling for advertisements on ending violence against women has selected its 30 finalists from 15 countries. Organized by the United Nations Regional Informational Centre (UNRIC) for Western Europe and UN Women, the competition Create4theUN received more than 2,700 entries from 40 countries.
As part of its Corporate and Social Responsibility, Unilever said it has set aside N40 million to empower and create favourable living environment for women in the society.
Public Protector Advocate Thuli Madonsela has called on women to promote good governance to help pave the way for the advancement of other women.
Source: Huffington Post
As more women in developing nations are empowered to promote their own advancement and security, NGOs can't forget those who have the power to instantly change the treatment of women -- men.
The media have written endless stories on the monster. Police have received many reports. The courts have also been laden with many cases. Many women have lost their lives leaving behind children some as young as two months. Many cases have gone unreported with some being swept under the carpet, the victims suffering in silence.
PUBLIC Protector Thuli Madonsela has called on women in public life to use their positions to advance the course of justice, freedom and constitutionalism in honour of struggle heroines such as the late Albertina Sisulu.
The most devastating drought for decades is currently facing the Horn of Africa. Somalia has been the worst hit and, as is so often the case, famine has led to armed conflict and instability in this fragile region.
Source: All Africa
Ignorance of laws and individual rights is among the major challenges in Rwanda's effort to prevent Gender Based Violence (GBV), a Gender Monitoring Office (GMO) report has established.
Source: This Day Live
Chairman, House of Representatives Ad hoc Commi-ttee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele, has concluded plans to sponsor a Paycheque Fairness and Violence against Women Bills
Source: All Africa
PAN Nigeria Limited, manufacturers of Peugeot brand cars yesterday graduated another set of female mechanics.
Source: Africa News
Having slept with hundreds of men, exposed to drugs, Beatrice Chanda's life was condemned to nothing. The possibility of her living a normal marriage life after so many years in prostitution, to anyone seemed impossible.
Source: IPS
Ester Abeja has experienced both physical and emotional atrocities. She was captured by Uganda's feared rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and was forced to join them.