Source: TODAY Newspaper
The Dakar-based ECOWAS Gender Development Centre (EGDC) yesterday held its eighth consultative meeting to seek more strategic approach to its mandate as well as consolidate the gains made over the last years. The meeting was held at the Paradise Suites Hotel.
Source: IPS
The bicycle has become a symbol of hope for hundreds of women who have been trained in repairing one of life’s favorite transport modes.
The Commission for Gender Equality says the Employment Equity Act needs to be reviewed. The call came after it emerged that black women had not significantly progressed in occupying positions of executive management in the corporate sector.
Source: Times Live
The Nigerian woman with a famous last name is now 64 and could be home with her grandchildren, but she is here instead, at a dilapidated police barracks urging officers' wives to take a stand.
Source: Isis International
Isis Internationalwould like to thank the organizers for inviting us to participate in this panel on Women, Right to Food, Food Security and Food Sovereignty. I would like to give a special mention here to Marilee Karl, founder of Isis International and who has been working on the issue of Food Crisis since 1996.
Source: Amnesty International
Amnesty International has today called on the Egyptian authorities to investigate serious allegations of torture, including forced ‘virginity tests’, inflicted by the army on women protesters arrested in Tahrir Square earlier this month.
Despite huge influx of female journalists, men still dominate top management jobs in media firms, study says. Long known as a "boy's club", the worldwide media industry continues to struggle with gender equality, with new research showing women are still under-represented in the majority of newsrooms across the globe.
Source: United Nations
In many traditional cultures, women aren't allowed to own or inherit property. Losing a husband through death or divorce can be a guarantee of poverty. But two women in Malawi have defied that fate. Here's their story.
Source: UNDP
The Angolan Women Promotion and Family minister, Genoveva Lino, Friday, here, suggested that domestic violence be regarded as public crime, so that any citizen can denounce it.
Source: UN WOMEN
UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet is in Brussels 24–25 March 2011 to discuss strengthening the partnership between the European Union and UN Women.
During a high-level UN delegation led by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Egypt 19-21 March, UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet engaged with women activists, youth leaders and civil society
Source: United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO)
Some 50 women leaders from the North and South Ubangi districts of Equateur province held a round table discussion at the office of the UN Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) in Mbandaka on 23 March to establish ways and means of empowering the womenfolk in the society.
Source: The Inquirer
Women from across West Africa on Wednesday pleaded with Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to double their efforts in restoring peace to Cote D'Ivoire immediately.
Source: IPS
In the dusty streets of Bulawayo’s densely populated townships, Susan Nkiwane is making house calls today. She is one of a group of twelve women who form a fragile web of support for TB sufferers in her community.
Souce: IPS
John Kyalo Mulwa couldn’t support his family from his six hectare farm, so he quit farming to open a bar. But he turned the land – and decision-making on it – over to his wife. Turns out she’s a better farmer than he ever was.
Source:UN Women
To help promote gender mainstreaming within the national budget, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN WOMEN, formerly UNIFEM), from February 25-26, 2011, conducted a series of capacity building workshops for the National Legislature on Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB).
Source: PlusNews
HIV could lose its "special status" in Kenya's health system if a new pilot programme integrating HIV care and public healthcare proves successful.
Source: IPS
From the outside, little has changed at the Maternal and Child Healthcare Clinic: pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers wait patiently on wooden benches. A chorus of infant call-and-response betrays the less long-suffering approach of their children to the wait.
If women like Judith Mussacula realise their aspirations to become the next generation of Mozambican politicians, the country's future will be in safe hands.
Despite formal recognition of domestic workers' rights in South Africa, they still face a struggle for fair treatment.