While I am not insinuating that mental health practitioners are liars, I would like to protest the declaration of most law breakers as mentally unstable.
THE United States embassy has launched a mentoring programme for girls in high schools. The programme is aimed at empowering girls to become economically independent and socially responsible.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, remarked Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu. This is perhaps the best way to explain the long journey Ugandan women have trekked on the leadership track.
Senior Egyptian general admits that "virginity checks" were performed on women arrested at a demonstration this spring, the first such admission after previous denials by military authorities.
An advisory council is being established to strengthen and coordinate the implementation of the 365 National Plan of Action to end Violence against Women and Children, says Minister for Women, Children and People with Disabilities Lulu Xingwana.
"We can not pluck rape out of war and let the war go on. We must not make war safe for women. It is time to abolish war," - Cora Weiss on the Nobel Women's Initiative conference on ending sexual violence in conflict.
Kenyan Women Chip Away at Employment Barriers. An auto mechanics training program for 30 Kenyan women isn't large, but it reflects the way women around the country--from parliamentarians to bus touts--are edging into traditionally male occupations.
A few months ago, the Women and Gender Development Directorate at the African Union launched the African Women's Decade in Nairobi – 10 good years dedicated to defend women’s rights across the continent.
Source: All Africa
Harare- The developed world is getting richer while the developing world continues to languish and grow poorer. It is a familiar observation, mostly because it is true.
Source: All Africa
WOMEN are big winners in the cabinet appointed on Friday. The number of women ministers rose from 16 in the last cabinet to 22 in the new one.
Source: All Africa
KENYA IS set to unveil a new medical compound that block HIV transmission in women and young girls after the successful completion of trials.
Source: OHCHR
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Anand Grover, praised the Ghanaian Government's commitment to realizing the right to health. However, at the end of his first visit to the country, he underscored key challenges in the areas of maternal mortality, mental health and adequate funding.
Source: IRIN News
Since discovering that her 13-year-old daughter was pregnant about a month ago, Juanita* has paid several visits to the local chief in her village in western Kenya, seeking justice for her daughter and punishment for the man who abused her.
Source: Third World Network
For Egyptian women, the decision to fully participate in the mass demonstrations that toppled Mubarak was also a decision to take back their streets - the very streets where sexual harassment and stalking were rampant.
Source: Third World Network
To appease 'Arab spring' protesters, Algeria lifted a 1991 law that banned public assembly, but a longstanding women's vigil for the country's 'disappeared' complains it doesn't help them. Other political women debate the effects.
Source: All Africa
Mirriam Kauseni is on a quest to become her town's first ever female parliamentarian. She has yet to be elected to run for the post by her party, the Patriotic Front (PF), but Kauseni has already been conducting door-to-door campaigns, telling people to vote for her in the country's national elections.
Source: UN News Centre
Welcoming the recent arrests of two men long sought for their roles in the Balkans conflicts and the Rwandan genocide, a top United Nations official today stressed the need to ensure that the crimes of sexual violence they both stand accused of are exposed in the legal process under way.
Source: Independent Online
Relatives of two woman who died in childbirth launched a landmark lawsuit against the Ugandan government Friday to highlight the failure to provide adequate maternal healthcare.
Source: Open Democracy
"Sometimes we need to name the abnormal as abnormal, and take action to defend what is normal!" - Shereen Essof. Jessica Horn reports at the close of the Nobel Women's Initiative conference, 'Women Forging a New Security: ending sexual violence in conflict'
Source: UN News Centre
Armed clashes in south-western Côte d'Ivoire have displaced thousands of women and children, halted a vital polio immunization campaign, and are threatening other forms of life-saving assistance, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported today.