Source: UNWOMEN
Speech delivered by Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet on the occasion of the opening of the 55th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 22 February 2011.
Source: ReliefWeb
The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has welcomed the guilty verdicts handed down this week by a military court for rape and other human rights abuses committed by national army personnel in the country's volatile east.
Source: ReliefWeb
A new joint programme is changing the way the Lesotho government and its development partners deliver aid by getting different government departments, UN agencies and civil society organizations working together to help mothers and their families.
Source: UN Women
The UN today celebrates the historic launch of UN Women, its newest organization, with an evening including luminaries from the worlds of politics, entertainment, business, the media, music and film in the UN General Assembly Hall.
Source: The Inquirer
The civil conflict in our country brought about a serious brain drain and not only that but doubly incapacitated the female section of the country; who at the time were not given many privileges to economic empowerment and life skills training.
Source: United Nations Radio
Women: a weekly 10-minute news magazine that looks at issues affecting women around the world.
Source: The Huffington Post
Over six decades after the United Nations was founded in 1945, one half of the world's population is finally getting the attention it is due.
Source: AngolaPress
The head of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet, Tuesday in New York, highlighted the relevance of inclusion of gender in the process of development, peace and security.
Source: ReliefWeb
The African Union – United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) today organized the launch of the Darfur Regional Women's Legislative Caucus, in El Fasher, North Darfur.
Source: UN News Center
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today underscored the importance of education in raising the status of women in society and called for greater investment in measures to ensure gender equality, deploring the fact that two-thirds of illiterate adults across the world are female.
Source: IPS
The domestic role played by half of the world's population has long been overlooked by policy-makers, with research and reports on gender roles focusing almost entirely on women.
Source: IPS
When the 192-member General Assembly, the highest policy- making body at the United Nations, decided to create a special agency last July to promote the advancement of women, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hailed it as a "historic" decision.
Source: Sowetan
League president Angie Motshekga said yesterday the organisation would embark on a campaign to educate teenagers about safe sex and encourage abstinence to help curb the spread of HIV-Aids.
Source: BBC
A military court in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo investigating a case of mass rape has sentenced Lt Col Kibibi Mutware to 20 years in jail.
Source: Action Aid
ActionAid Ambassador Emma Thompson today (11th February) coined Liberian women the nation’s “most promising resource” and called for greater investment in Liberian girls. The Hollywood actress and her son Tindy – a former child-soldier – were speaking at a press conference in Liberia, following a weeklong trip with international aid agency ActionAid.
ActionAid Ambassador Emma Thompson today (11th February) coined Liberian women the nation’s “most promising resource” and called for greater investment in Liberian girls. The Hollywood actress and her son Tindy – a former child-soldier – were speaking at a press conference in Liberia, following a weeklong trip with international aid agency ActionAid.
Source: AllAfrica
The annual meetings of Commonwealth women's ministers and officials began on Saturday 19 February in New York, with an assessment of the progress and challenges in implementing the Commonwealth's 10 year Plan of Action for Gender Equality.
Source: IPS
Fatima Asmal interviews ZANELE MAGWAZA-MSIBI, leader of South Africa's National Freedom PartyDURBAN - Zanele Magwaza-Msibi is a woman with a mission: to serve the people of South Africa. She is poised to become leader of South Africa's newest political party, the National Freedom Party (NFP), after breaking away from the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), where she served as national chairperson
Source: Daily Independent
Mrs. Helen Esuene is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag-bearer for Akwa Ibom South Senatorial District in the April general elections. In this interview with Correspondent, ANIEFIOK MACAULEY, she speaks on a wide range of issues including the edge she had over the incumbent senator Eme Ekaette at the primaries, women participation in politics, her priorities if elected in the main election and why the PDP should not impose unpopular candidates on the people. Excerpts…
Source: Pambazuka
When disaster strikes as it has recently in Southern Africa, everyone is affected. Last week the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned that during the next two or three months parts of Southern Africa will likely experience some of the worst flooding seen in more than 20 years.
Source: IRIN
NOUAKCHOTT - While force-feeding of young girls is waning in Mauritania, particularly in urban areas, many girls and women are voluntarily using high-tech and dangerous methods aimed at achieving the corpulent form long a status symbol in the country.