After five days of travel, including a gorgeous but hot, dusty, bumpy, and nearly eight-hour drive from the city of Bukavu, I arrived today in Baraka, South Kivu, in the war-ravaged eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Source: IRIN
MUHURU BAY - Carol Gor, 36, thought her chances of obtaining a secondary education ended 11 years ago when her parents, who rely on fishing along Lake Victoria, failed to raise the fees. She stayed at home for a few years, got pregnant and was soon married.
Source: Pambazuka
The institutions and organisations below have signed this statement in disapproval of the criteria and formation of the Constitutional Committee, whereby the committee does not include a single female expert. Advancing with a committee like this, triggers fears and suspicions with regards to the future of Egypt and the transitional phase.'
Source: WOMENSENEWS
Two Egyptian women's rights leaders say Suzanne Mubarak controlled their arena and stymied progress. Now they look ahead, with an eye on history. The Algerian and Iranian revolutions were different, but still cautionary for women.
Source: Sifynews
New Delhi - Women writers are coming into their own in African contemporary literature, dominating the shortlist - with nine out of 12 - for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2011 for best book and best first book from Africa.
Source: BusinessDay
Speaking in Pretoria, Machel was encouraging 10 women who made it to the final phase of training and mentoring project for businesswomen, funded by the Spanish government
Source: NewsDay
Heroine Thenjiwe Lesabe (MaKhumalo) has left this world, but her vision works and deeds will forever be remembered and cherished.
Source: RH Reality Check
For a few brief days during the Egyptian uprising, women felt relatively safe on the streets of Egypt where sexual street harassment has, for many years, been a problem of epidemic proportions.
Source: AFP
WASHINGTON — The United States voiced regret Saturday at the absence of women on a committee tasked with proposing amendments to Egypt's constitution despite their participation in protests that ousted Hosni Mubarak.
Source: World Food Programme
Nyipher used to struggle in school. She had trouble paying attention and she’d fall asleep in class. A 14-year-old girl growing up in the slums of Nairobi, her problem wasn’t laziness—it was hunger. Then her school started serving meals at lunch and things began to change. Now, she’s thinking about college and beyond.
Nyipher used to struggle in school. She had trouble paying attention and she’d fall asleep in class. A 14-year-old girl growing up in the slums of Nairobi, her problem wasn’t laziness—it was hunger. Then her school started serving meals at lunch and things began to change. Now, she’s thinking about college and beyond.
Source: UNited Nations Radio
Women are overrepresented among the world's poor who lack access to basic social services according to Michelle Bachelet, the Executive Director of UN Women.
Source: The Nigerian Observer
The issue of women’s participation in the political processes of societies, especially democratic ones, is one that has engaged the attention of scholars and researchers (Mcclsky, 1968, Stacey and Price, 1981, Welch 1980, Ifamose 2000 and Makinde 2000). Some studies on the role of Nigerian Women’s participation in politics have come to establish that the level has varied over time.
Source: WorldStage
President Good luck Jonathan on Thursday restated his determination to get Nigeria out of the shackles of poverty and transform the country into a more cherished environment that thrives with meek and honey.
Source: NewsDay
“As a mother it is not easy to accept that you have actually given birth to a disabled child. It is traumatic, especially if the child is your first born,” said Margaret Mugwisi, a committee member for Batsiranai in Dzivaresekwa, a women’s group that assists mothers with disabled children cope with socio-economic and emotional challenges.
Source: Open Society Foundation
Source: Open Society Foundation
Some 600 people turned out today to hear the defense stage of the case against Lt. Col. Kibibi Mutware and ten soldiers under his command. They have been charged with rape as a crime against humanity, after they allegedly went on a mass rape and pillage spree in the town of Fizi on New Year's Day.
Source: Open Society Foundation
By the end of the sixth day of the landmark mass rape trial currently taking place in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 47 women had told a closed session of the special military court their horrifying accounts of what happened in Fizi on New Year's Day. With the general public barred from hearing their testimony by the president of the military court, Lt Colonel Utena Kuluila, the final witnesses gave their individual versions of the terrible events on January 1, when soldiers raped and looted their way through the town.
Source: UN News Center
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for a “revolution” in how the world defines prosperity and relates to nature, based on the twin pillars of a sustainable development that breaks with the profligacy of the past and an equality that embraces empowerment for all.
Source: UNFPA
Statement by Ms. Purnima Mane, UNFPA Deputy Executive Director (Programme), at Expert Meeting on Maximizing the Development Impact of Remittances, in Geneva
Source: Unicef
For 17 years Mary was married to a man who emotionally and physically abused her. She first came to the Isange One Stop Centre in October of 2009, after having been recently beaten by her husband and left with a badly broken arm. At the time, she was so traumatized she could not speak, but now at 32, buouyed by the love of her four children and essential support from the centre, she is doing decidedly better.
Source: AWID
Margaret Sekaggya, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders submitted her third report to the UN Human Rights Council. This report is the first to focus exclusively on the situation of women defenders and those working on women’s rights or gender issues.