Source: Open Democracy
History reveals an abundance of democratic paradoxes: cases in which progress on women's rights regressed in the aftermath of revolution. Coming to terms with the battle between secularism and Islam – a dispute long silenced by Ben Ali's rabidly secular policies – will require a redefinition of women's rights. Are the secularists or Islamists ready for that step?
The job of spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General involves working long hours in a highly sensitive political environment, following the 24-hour news cycle and being frequently away from home.
In a recent Al Jazeera report, doctors working in a hospital spoke of how they found Viagra and condoms in the pockets of dead Libyan army soldiers.
Source: UN News Centre
Despite the driest year in the Eastern Horn of Africa in more than 15 years, and the threat to the livelihoods of millions in the region, funding for relief efforts is barely over 50 per cent of announced needs, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today.
According to Eco-Watch Africa, sexual harassment and violence against women and girls in the aftermath of natural disasters, like recent floods in Mozambique, is an enormous challenge.
Source: All Africa
Have you ever watched this advert currently airing on local TV channels? A visibly drunk and loud man is having a good time in a dingy bar, ordering rounds of beer for his friends and feasting on nyama choma.
Source: All Africa
The struggle has indeed been a long one. We have fought for more than ten years. We went to nearly every village in Mauritius using the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development as a tool to tell men and women about the importance of having women in politics.
Bill Gates, Britain and other nations commit funds to help treat preventable diseases among world's poorest children.
Source: Plus News
The United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS was nothing if not bold. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a global commitment to eliminate AIDS by 2020. "That is our goal – zero new infections, zero stigma and zero AIDS-related deaths," Ban said to a round of applause at the UN General Assembly last week in New York.
Source: All Africa
Oley Njie-Mbye, the chief executive officer of Gambia Women's Finance Association (GAWFA), has said that women have effective leadership skills and the ability to manage meager resources.
Source: FAO
An FAO urban horticulture programme in the five main cities of the Democratic Republic of Congo has taken a bite out of chronic malnutrition levels in urban areas and created a surplus with a market value of over $400 million.
Source: Plus News
The road to prevention methods based on antiretroviral (ARV) drugs is still fraught with challenges, but recent groundbreaking trial results from this promising new field offer greater hope than previous efforts.
Source: All Africa
At least 438 cases of domestic violence were registered from January to June 8, by the Provincial Department of Family and Women Promotion in Huambo, against 390 cases reported in the same period of 2010.
Source: All Africa
Female parliamentarians have met with women representatives from districts to discuss how to improve the welfare of women.
Source: All Africa
GOVERNMENT in conjunction with the Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre Network has embarked on a project aimed at capacitating officials at different levels of ministries in developing gender-sensitive budgets.
The number of female enrolment in schools has registered commendable growth in Northern Red Sea region over the past 20 years since independence as a result of the concerted effort of teachers, parents and administrators, stated Mr.
Source: IRIN
There is a touch of gold fever in the small western Madagascan town of Ankavandra and schoolgirls are being affected.
Source: IRIN
Tahiri and her baby daughter have joined a courtyard full of women sheltering their babies from the midday sun at a health centre in Ankareira, near Madagascar's southern tip.
A global plan launched today at the United Nations seeks to eliminate new HIV infections among children and keep their mothers alive, in an effort to save millions of lives across the developing world.
Source: Plus News
The rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission has fallen to 3.5 percent according to a national survey by the South African Medical Research Council (MRC) and researchers say the virtual elimination of vertical HIV transmission may now be possible by 2015.