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.
Source: UN News Centre
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has drafted a plan committing Member States and development partners to implement priority nutrition interventions and policies on health care, education and agriculture to improve the health of mothers and their children.
Source: UN News Centre
The United Nations agency tasked with trying to alleviate rural poverty today announced a $17.4 million loan and grant agreement aimed at helping some 132,000 poor people in southern Chad.
Source: All Africa
The United Nations family is committed to supporting Rwanda in the elimination of Mother-to- child Transmission of HIV/AIDS .
Source: The New Vision
SHE keenly listened each time her father, George Kadaga, a civil servant in the Ministry of Justice, narrated the proceedings of court cases.
Source: IRIN
Violations of human rights are on the increase in northeastern Central African Republic (CAR), with aid workers expressing concern for protection of civilians amid renewed clashes between government troops and the Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP) rebels - one of the few groups that has not signed a peace agreement with the government.
As Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the world’s most powerful financial institution, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), spends a few nights in Rikers Island prison awaiting a hearing, the world is learning a lot about his history of treating women as expendable sex objects.
Source: UNESCO Media Services
Globally, some 39 million girls of lower secondary age are currently not enrolled in either primary or secondary education, while two thirds of the world’s 796 million illiterate adults are women. Only about one third of countries have achieved gender parity at secondary level.