Source: Relief Web
Rape victims from Songo Mboyo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will be presented with a boat as a gesture of solidarity from the United Nations on Monday, 7 February, in Mbandaka, DRC.
Source: UN News Center
Women continue to reap less benefits from employment in agriculture than men in rural areas, and the recent global financial and food crises have slowed down progress towards gender equality in farming-related labour, three United Nations agencies said in a joint report unveiled today.
Source: UN News Center
The United Nations rural development fund said today it has made significant progress in improving gender equality and strengthening the role of women in agriculture production, but noted that more remains to be done to help women reap the benefits of rural development.
Source: UN News Center
Ten years after the Security Council called for greater involvement of women in peacebuilding, United Nations peacekeeping missions have a mixed record and need to deploy greater efforts to reach the goal, according to a study launched today.
Source: Stars and Stripes
There was no field manual to consult, no military doctrine to guide the way.
Source: New York Times
For years, diplomats, aid workers, academics and government officials here have been vexed almost to the point of paralysis about how to attack this country’s staggering problem of sexual violence, in which hundreds of thousands of women have been raped, many quite sadistically, by the various armed groups who haunt the hills of eastern Congo.
Source: Times Live
The Big Read: Jacob Zuma last week said the government would provide free sanitary towels to women and girls who cannot afford them.
Source: Pulse
Much has been aflutter on twitter about the very visible presence of women among the protests that have taken Egypt by storm over the last few weeks, but images of them have remained sparse amid the digital slideshows strung together by major media outlets, portraying mainly dense crowds of the manly.
Source: Leadership
SourceWhile the latest census by the South African Business Women’s Association (BWA) indicates that women are still hugely under-represented in the ranks of executive managers and directors of companies compared to their proportion of the total population, a red-hot debate has broken out in Germany about the possible introduction of a quota-system for women in that country.
Source: United Nations Radio
Female genital mutilation has no health benefit and violates the human rights of girls and women.That's what the World Health Organization (WHO) is stressing on the eve of the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, observed on February 6.
Source: UN Women
Statement by Ms. Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Women, to the Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women and WFP, 4 February 2011 – Item 2: Mainstreaming gender through the work of the agencies and envisaged collaboration with UN Women.
Source: World Health Orgnaisation
The International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation is observed each year to raise awareness about this practice. Female genital mutilation of any type has been recognized as a harmful practice and violation of the human rights of girls and women.
Source: UNFPA
Female genital mutilation/cutting has been illegal in Senegal since 1999. But that didn’t stop Dialyma Cisse‘s paternal grandmother from having her cut, against the wishes of the young girl and her parents.
Source: The Liberian Journal
Six years into her historic Presidency as the 1st democratically elected woman Head of State of an African country, the euphoria which greeted the event in 2005, is still well alive in Liberia and around the world. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has weathered
Source: V-Day
V-Day and the Fondation Panzi (DRC), with support from UNICEF, announce today the opening of City of Joy, a revolutionary new community for women survivors of gender violence in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Source: Coastweek
Michelle Bachelet'S organization would be working on women equality and empowerment, economic empowerment, end violence against women and women's physical security
Source: AllAfrica
Tough measures to tackle gender-based violence are more important to South African women than government distribution of free sanitary pads, argues Glenda Muzenda.
Source: World Food Programme
A group of businesswomen in the Gbumbgum region of northeastern Ghana has found a route out of poverty through a product which their community badly needs—iodated salt. Iodine deficiency is rampant in Gbumbgum, where the swollen necks of people suffering from goitre are a common sight.
Source: United Nations Office On Drugs And Crimes
The first steps toward the establishment of a UN-led 'Small Grants Facility' for victims of human trafficking were taken today in a move aimed at strengthening on-the-ground assistance to survivors of this brutal crime. A public call will be made over the coming months through the UNODC website.
Source: The Zimbabwe Telegraph
Africa’s economic independence aspirations require more women participants to be involved in business ownership and entrepreneurship. Normally innovation drives entrepreneurship which starts first with the vision then the mission which leads to the creation of a business.