Women and children are being slaughtered in South Sudan by soldiers who said to be using knives for the massacres to save their ammunition.
The brutal conflict, sparking UN warnings over ethnic cleansing, is driving a devastating famine that is threatening millions with starvation in the country.
One woman who fled violence in the city of Yei told how she saw her best friend and her children, including three-month-old baby, butchered.
In Nigeria, Boko Haram is recruiting women and girls to carry out suicide bomb attacks. NGOs and the Nigerian government are working to rescue these women and reintroduce them to society and their families.
Women and girls, some reportedly aged ten and younger, have recently been used by Boko Haram to target checkpoints, bus stations, mosques, churches, schools and markets to inflict maximum civilian casualties.
When Sarah started menstruating in Egypt during the months-long journey that would take her from Eritrea to Britain, she had to use "toilet paper, tissue, anything" to soak up the blood.
She was preparing to make the journey across the Mediterranean from Egypt to Italy and did not have access to sanitary products.
"You're traveling with a small bag, an empty bag because when you go to the boat they ask you to make it lighter," Sarah told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in London, highlighting the added struggles women face in their perilous journeys to Europe.
With women being paid an average of 23 per cent less than men, the United Nations has launched a high-profile network to call for equal pay for work of equal value.
“We want equal pay now,” yelled Academy Award-winning American actress Patricia Arquette and two-time Olympic gold medalist and soccer superstar Abby Wambach, leading a call in the UN General Assembly Hall yesterday evening at the launch of the Equal Pay Platform of Champions.
A women's group in Luweero District has taken the campaign to boost hygiene and sanitation practices to another level. The group has not only encouraged members to improve sanitation and hygiene facilities in their home but have also spread good cheer to their different communities.
Source: UN Women
The UN Secretary-General Mr. Antonio Guterres joined Kenyans to celebrate the International Women’s Day during which he emphasized the need to protect women’s rights as human rights and empower women and girls.
Source: The Citizen
The East African Community (EAC) is, at last, seeing light at the end of the tunnel after a long era of gender angst.
Source: Daily Trust
The federal and state legislatures have been urged to enact laws against female genital mutilation (FGM) across the country.
Source: Daily Observer
United States Ambassador Christine Elder on Tuesday urged Liberian women to create networking opportunities based on shared interests.
Source: Daily Nation
Despite gains made toward gender equality in the country, women still lag behind in political engagement with few men ready to support women in their quest for political leadership, a study has revealed.
There is overwhelming evidence that empowering women and girls has transformative personal, social, economic and health benefits for individuals, their children, families and society at large. And yet the recent startling statistics by the African Union show that out of 75 percent of girls starting school in Africa only 8 percent finish. This calls for African countries to reflect on the urgent matter as we commemorate International Women's Day 2017 but all hope is not lost.
Professor Modupe Onadeko, a retired Consultant on Reproductive and Family Medicine, University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, has advised Nigerian women to take the right initiatives as change agents in the society.
Onadeko gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) while speaking on the observance of 2017 International Women’s Day (IWD) in Ibadan on Wednesday.
Today is International Women’s Day, a global celebration of women’s achievements, as well as a call to arms for the improvement of women’s rights everywhere. But there remains a huge and pressing threat to women’s lives today, no matter where they are: sexual violence. According to the UN, around 120 million girls around the world have been subjected to rape or forced sexual acts at some point in their life – that’s one in 10 women. “If it were a medical disease,” points out the charity Equality Now, “sexual violence would have the serious attention and the funding to address it, from governments and independent donors alike.”
Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030
Message by UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on International Women's Day, 8 March 2017
Across the world, too many women and girls spend too many hours on household responsibilities—typically more than double the time spent by men and boys. They look after younger siblings, older family members, deal with illness in the family and manage the house. In many cases this unequal division of labour is at the expense of women’s and girls’ learning, of paid work, sports, or engagement in civic or community leadership. This shapes the norms of relative disadvantage and advantage, of where women and men are positioned in the economy, of what they are skilled to do and where they will work.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres Wednesday joined Kenyans as they commemorated the International Women’s Day (IWD) where President Uhuru Kenyatta enumerated the many strides that the country has achieved towards gender parity.
Source: allAfrica
The plague of Child marriages and teenage pregnancies continue to deprive young girls of their childhood, and the potential to become drivers of Zambia's development.
Source: The Monitor
At least 200 girls run away from their parents and guardians' home due to domestic violence, an Action Aid official has said. Ms Irene Ahimbisibwe, an Action Aid's psychosocial support officer, said they record more than 500 cases of girls and women who fall victim to domestic violence countrywide weekly.
Source: DW
A senior South Sudanese military official says three soldiers suspected of mass rape have been arrested. Both rebels and government troops have been accused of committing war crimes.
Source: Daily Nation
In the 2013 General Election, a notable outcome was that voters decided not to elect any woman to the position of governor in all the 47 counties.
Source: Daily Trust
The African Women's Entrepreneurship Programme (AWEP) has called for inclusiveness of women entrepreneurs in building the Nigerian economy.