Source: African Independent
Civil society and health sector organizations from South Africa and India recognized the unique opportunity presented by the 10th BRICS Summit and commended South Africa for proposing the creation of a Gender and Women’s Forum.
Sources: Face2Face Africa
Mali is going to the polls on July 29, 2018, and among the list of presidential candidates is a woman: Djeneba N’diaye.
Source: WHO
“There were no signs that the morning of 31 May 2018 would be different until I started feeling the pangs, requiring medical assistance,” said Naomi Muyadeen. "Initially, I dreaded going to the government facility but stepping into the health facility, I immediately noticed the change.”
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
A promise by Liberian President George Weah to change laws that discriminate against women is spurring campaigners to push for legal reform to protect wives’ land rights.
It is crucial that we increase women's participation in political and decision-making structures, from grassroots level and up, says Blessing Vava.
A task team was established on Friday to draft a five-year strategy to empower and develop female police officers at all levels in the South African Police Service (SAPS).
Looking at our economy, Kenya recorded a decrease in the unemployment rate to 11 percent in 2017 from 11.29 percent in 2015, with the all-time high being 12.18 percent in 2010 and a record low of 8.10 percent in 1999.
Windhoek — Namdeb received the prestigious Gender is My Agenda Campaign (GIMAC) award on the evening of June 5, 2018, for the Private Sector category, through the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare. The award is in recognition for the company's continued contribution in achieving equity and gender equality in Namibia.
The much-awaited women's bank is set to open next Tuesday after the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) authorised its operations and issued it with a licence, a Cabinet minister said yesterday.
Glen View 8 is a community like any other in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital. It is a densely populated settlement, full of life and activity, where the sight of a girl accompanying her grandmother to market on a weekday, selling vegetables or serving customers in the family tuck shop, is not unusual.
South Africa legalised abortion in 1997. Yet so few clinics offer them that women still risk their lives by turning to illegal means.
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If a 5-year-old girl growing up in a developing country could speak to global leaders, what would she say?
Rukungiri — After weeks of heated campaigns, voters will today cast their ballot in the Rukungiri Woman MP by-election.
London — Gender inequality in the workplace could cost $160 trillion in lost earnings globally, a World Bank study showed on Wednesday, as pressure to address the pay gap grows.
ADDIS ABABA - Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Services, a three-year project that focuses on building resilience through universal access to sexual reproductive health in Somali state, was officially launched last week.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Somaliland has passed its first law against rape as new government tries to crack down on violence against women.
"If all Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) survivors shared the detrimental effects the practice has had on their lives all the communities practicing the acts in Tanzania would stop the act."
Cricket South Africa (CSA) acting CEO Thabang Moroe wants to see the country's women and men cricketers treated equally, and that means that they must be paid the same.
TED TALK - delivered at the International SHEROES Forum, Labadi Beach Hotel, May 18, 2018
The Equality Court in Cape Town will soon hear a groundbreaking case on the rights of transgender prisoners. The court will have to decide whether a correctional facility has to take steps to reasonably accommodate transgender female prisoners who are currently in a male prison. This would include, among other things, allowing transgender female prisoners to wear make-up, wear female clothing, and be addressed by the use of the female pronoun and their chosen name.