- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – President of the Republic of Liberia
- Joyce Banda – President of the Republic of Malawi
- Catherine Samba-Panza – Interim President of the Central African Republic
There is progress here and there on the continent regarding women's rights . We must go much further to ensure greater gender equality in Africa. It is not just a matter of justice....When women take their rightful place at the negotiating table, in the parliament and in leadership positions across society, we can unleash Africa’s enormous potential..." UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
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Source: The Justice
On Thursday, Prof. Shulamit Reinharz Ph.D. '72 (SOC), founder of the Women's Studies Research Center, introduced the most recent lecturer. She explained, "95 percent of the lectures given here from 2001 to now have been by the 85 scholars who work here.
Source: The Telegraph
This week, Iceland will host a gender equality conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York in the spirit of Emma Watson's HeForShe campaign. Foreign minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson tells Lauren Davidson why part of the event will be just for men.
Source: AllAfrica
Female leaders from seven countries given skills to conceptualise and plan work on political participation and rights.
Source: allAfrica
Malawi former President, Joyce Banda, has hailed Malawians for being supportive to her during her reign as well as political career in the wake of her recent recognition by the CNN index as 2014's most inspiring woman in politics.
Source: Front Page Africa
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recently met with the Women Situation Room of the 2014 Special Senatorial Elections and shared information and reflected on the just ended electoral process, their role and findings.
Source: Devex
Democracy is not complete when women and other groups of individuals do not equally benefit from it, participants agreed at the Annual Democracy Forum 2014 in Gaborone, Botswana.
Source: StarAfrica
A technical workshop on the development of an ECOWAS Gender and Elections Strategy and a pilot Fellowship Programme for Women in Peace and Security as part of determined regional efforts to correct the imbalance of women's participation in democratic elections and good governance opened on Monday in Abuja.
Source: Reuters
Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party confirmed President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace as the new head of its women's wing at a congress on Saturday, underlining her swift political rise in the troubled southern African country.
Source: Sahara Reporters
Queen mothers in the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana have unanimously called on the country's parliament not to pass the Plant Bleeders Bill.
Source: Times Live
Free State legislature speaker Sisi Mabe was a strong woman, brilliant and yet humble, the legislature's spokesman Life Mokone said on Monday.
Source: News 24
Namibians voted on Friday in a general election billed as Africa's first e-vote, with the ruling party expected to retain power in the country it has run since independence.