Source: IRINAfter walking for days to escape drought and insecurity, often barefoot and with almost no food or water, Somali refugees who arrive at Dadaab camps in northern Kenya are met with delays and red tape.
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Source: HRW
Authorities in Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria should investigate and close down networks that traffic Nigerian women and girls to Côte d'Ivoire for forced prostitution, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Source: Mail&Guardian
Angolan security forces are waging a campaign of terror -- including sexual abuse -- on Congolese migrants who cross the border illegally looking for work, aid agencies have claimed.
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Source: Daily Nation
In Kenya, there is an estimated 7,000 new obstetric fistula cases each year - thousands of these are yet to get treatment.
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Source: IPSRwanda is the first country in the world where women outnumber men in parliament, with women occupying 45 out of 80 seats. However, despite this, experts say that the country still needs a gender equality perspective on how national resources and programmes are implemented.
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Source: United Nations Human Rights (UNHR)The tradition of inheritance from father to son in many societies coupled with a reliance on boys to provide economic support, to ensure security in old age and to perform death rites are part of a set of social norms that place greater value on sons than daughters.
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Source: All Africa15 women who have been receiving training on handicraft, including weaving in the Halib-Mentel Nuns Association in Elaberad sub-zone for one year graduated.
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Source: All Africa
Uíge — The deputy governor of Uije province for technical and infrastructure affairs, Afonso Luvilukua, on Monday here said that the Angolan women have achieved satisfactory advancement in her emancipation, being notorious her presence in the decision-making organs, Angop has learnt.
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Source: UN WOMENThis week UN Women and the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) are training women leaders to strengthen their mediation capacities in peacebuilding processes to prioritize women’s specific needs.
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Source: All Africa Women beneficiaries of solar energy devices and the Adhanet oven in Omhajer semi-urban center are improving their living standard. The credit for the support goes to the NUEW branch in Gash-Barka region in collaboration with partners.
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Source: All AfricaWOMEN in Rivers State have been charged to use the free medical services initiated by the State Government to curb maternal and infant mortality and other health challenges.
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Source: All AfricaThe Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina has said the ministry will be supporting a Non Governmental Organization,
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Source: All AfricaDodoma — The government will pump Sh2 billion into the Tanzania Women Bank (TWB) during the 2011/12 fiscal year to enable more women to secure loans.
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Source: All AfricaNext Friday, the Rwanda Women Parliamentary Forum (FFRP) will celebrate 15 years of existence and, if the news conference members held is anything to go by, they are pretty pleased with themselves.
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Source: TIMEThe word ‘famine' may be a familiar one, but it is not thrown around lightly by the people who decide when there is one. The fact that most of us today probably associate the term with the 1984 crisis in Ethiopia is testament to its exceedingly careful dispensation;
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Source: All AfricaRwanda is set to host a two-day high level global meeting that will bring together experts from various parts of the world to discuss Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB).
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Source: IPS AfricaSouleymane Faye interviews BINETA DIOP, founder and executive director of the NGO Femmes Africa Solidarité. Bineta Diop is well known for her campaigning in defence of women's rights in Africa.
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Source: IPS AfricaEthel James cannot wait for the gravity-fed water scheme in her area to be fixed so that she and the other women in her village will no longer have to wake up before dawn everyday to queue for water.
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Source: BBC The New York hotel maid who accuses former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her in a hotel suite has given her first interview.
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Source: The Africa ReportWomen are our best hope for the continent, says Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah in her introduction to our list of the 50 women shaping Africa. Porgress has been slow, but many women are showing the art of the possible, inspiring a new generation to take control of their destiny
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