Women's groups in Kenya are calling for the government to appoint at least one woman to fill the country's top judicial positions. The Kenyan president in late January announced nominations for the positions, but withdrew the names following a ruling that the process was unconstitutional.
Source: Myjoyonline
Former First Lady and President of the 31st December Women’s Movement, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings says emerging democracies will only grow from strength to strength if women are supported to participate in political leadership and conflict management.
Source: Business Wire
The Coca-Cola Company and The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation announced today that $6 million will be dedicated to water and sanitation partnerships aimed at improving the lives of an estimated 250,000 women and girls on the African continent.
Source: AllAfrica
Msanzala Constituency Member of Parliament (MP) Peter Daka's wife Priscilla, has donated 20 sewing machines and bundles of chitenge materials worth more than K40 million to 20 women clubs in various wards with a call to the womenfolk to work hard and enhance their living standards.
Source: IPS
Eleven years ago, 192 countries – all the United Nations member states – agreed to step up the integration of women in international peacebuilding and security processes, a promise that has remained largely unmet.
Source: Ansa Africa
Some women's rights groups have expressed their disappointment at the recent national constitutional review conference organized by the Constitution Review Commission in Accra recently.
Source: WomenEnews
Egyptian women fought for the overthrow of Mubarak alongside men. But now the male-domination of transitional politics is like going backwards, writes Nadya Khalife of Human Rights Watch.
A “Thousand Women Protest March” in Abuja, Nigeria is planned for March 23, 2011 to pressure AU and ECOWAS leaders to immediately halt the violence in Cote d’Ivoire, and to ensure the killing of the seven women is investigated and the perpetrators are brought to justice.”
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.