Source: IRIN
Vegetable seller Caroline Tibet recently lost about US$420 in aubergines, cassava and okra when gunfire broke out near the truck just loaded up with her goods near the town of Duékoué in western Côte d'Ivoire.
Source: Pambazuka
At age 18 I was told the time had come for me to go through Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). I didn’t want to. It was my mother and maternal grandmother’s idea: they’d also been responsible for the initiation of all of my female siblings.
Source: UN Women
UN Women, under the Fund for Women’s Property and Inheritance Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS, today announced approximately US$1.5 million in small grants to twenty grassroots and community-based organizations in sub-Saharan Africa to strengthen women’s property and inheritance rights as a critical strategy for addressing women’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.
Source: OpEdNews
In 2000, when the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1325, there was reason to hope that women would finally be at the table in countries where major decisions were being made following political crises.
Source:UN News Centre
The United Nations health agency today released its first ever list of the most vital medicines for saving the lives of mothers and children, and stressed the need to ensure their availability in developing countries.
Source: IPS
Elizabeth Phiri was so incensed when she was overlooked as a parliamentary candidate for the Patriotic Front in a 2008 by-election on the basis of her gender that she quit the party. Four years on, she has rejoined the party but remains pessimistic - but other women politicians see reasons to hope the 2011 elections will be different.
Source: African Union (AU)
In order to popularize and create awareness, and promote the speedy signature, ratification and domestication of the AU Convention for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa, the African Union has decided to convene regional meetings.
Amid reports of women being raped during recent mass expulsions from Angola to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a senior United Nations official today called on both countries to investigate all allegations of sexual violence and take practical steps to prevent such crimes.
Source: Swazi Observer
As the Business Women Forum of Swaziland (BWFS) grows, women in the corporate sector will be engaged to advocate for fairer policies.
Source: The Huffington Post
Last week on March 8, the world celebrated International Women's Day for the 100th year. It is an occasion to salute the women of the Middle East and North Africa, along with women all over the world who are taking great risks to stand up and fight for dignity, justice and human rights for themselves and for their compatriots.
Source: Al-Masry Al-Youm
Despite their noticeable participation in pro-democracy protests that toppled the former regime and paved the way for a new era in Egypt, Egyptian women are still finding themselves relatively excluded from the current political scene.
Source: The Guardian
While Tanzania has made significant success in bringing about women equality, a lot remains to be done.
Source: Newswise
National Women and Girls AIDS Awareness Day, a nationwide observance that raises awareness and promotes action in the fight against HIV/AIDS, took place on March 10. As the nation turns its attention to this important cause, women and girls around the world continue to be affected by HIV/AIDS in high numbers.
Source: Ghana News Agency
The Member of Parliament for Agona East, Mr John Kwesi Agyabeng, has urged women associations and groups to form "think tanks" to fight for gender equality and economic empowerment.
Source: Jamaica Information Service
Message from the honourable Bruce Golding, Prime Minister of Jamaica on Commonwealth Day, March 14, 2011
Source: IPS
"We have had enough of the training given to us in cooking, sewing and household works… We now have another dream: of participating actively in the development of our island at decision-making level," says Marie-Anne Laganne, a political trainer at Women In Politics.
Source: IPS
It would have been hard for a teenaged Margaret Nnananyana Nasha to imagine that she would grow up to become one of the most powerful figures in Botswana's government.
Source: IPS
When the ban on traditional birth attendants was lifted last year, pregnant women quickly appeared at Dorothy Chirwa's door in Malombe village in Mangochi, a district on the southern shores of Lake Malawi. Chirwa was among the thousands of TBAs banned from providing women with care in 2007.
Source: The Inquirer
Five women groups in Liberia have sharply condemned the deaths of the seven women who were allegedly demonstrating peacefully in the streets of Abidjan, Cote d' Ivoire on March 3, 2011 and are calling on partners to help in providing more assistance to the influx of refugees fleeing the conflict.
The violations on female activists The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights followed up the events of March the 8th on the occasion of International Women's Day in a great worry.