- GE and Santa Clara University's Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship will graduate 14 social entrepreneurs who completed training and mentorship aimed at improving and accelerating maternal and/or child health outcomes in Africa
Source: Deutsche Welle
Many elderly women in northern Ghana have fled their homes to live in so-called witch camps. They have been accused of witchcraft and fear being killed. As Maxwell Suuk reports from Tamale, attacks are increasing.
Source: The Huffington Post
In 1994, Joan Kirner, the 42nd Premier of Victoria, addressed a crowd while on a break from speaking at the International Conference 'Women Power & Politics'. "Seize the moment", she encouraged her fellow patrons at the local pub. "Participate in shaping our nation as we have not done before."
Source: Nyasa Times
First Lady Gertrude Mutharika on Saturday urged girls to focus on education and avoid teenage pregnancies.
Source: Daily News
Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Tulia Ackson has urged the public to join efforts in the battle against violence on women.
Source: Daily Nation
An attempt by the Senate to increase the number of women in Parliament suffered a blow when Senators opposed to the bill skipped voting.
Source: FPA
The international system in recent years has experienced a new phenomenon and fascinating developments in contemporary politics regarding the rise in women's involvements in political struggles to persistently challenge their male counterparts in an internationally praised democracy process for representation and leadership from one region to another across the globe.
Source: Algeria Press Service
SETIF (Algeria)- The promotion of women’s rights, particularly political ones is a fundamental issue for the Algerian State and an essential condition for the implementation of democratic values said Sunday, in Setif, the director of local governance at the ministry of Foreign Affairs at the ministry of Interior and Local Authorities Fatiha Hamrit.
Source: IRIN
The camps for displaced people scattered across northeast Nigeria are supposed to provide safety from Boko Haram violence. But for many women the threat is no longer the jihadists: The danger is inside the camps, and stems from the attitudes of men in general.
Source: Human Rights Watch
(Tunis) – Officials in eastern Libya should immediately repeal an order, issued on February 16, 2017, that bans women under age 60 from traveling abroad unless they are accompanied by a male guardian, Human Rights Watch said today. The order threatens to curtail freedom of movement for women in eastern Libya, including for medical treatment, education, and professional travel.
Poor sanitation, abandoned mines, and a disregard towards communities affected by mining were among the concerns raised by protesters outside the Mining Indaba on Tuesday.
About 50 supporters of Women from Mining Affected Communities United in Action (WAMUA) from across the country chanted at the busy intersection of Lower Long and Walter Sisulu roads outside the Cape Town Convention Centre.
Children's ideas about what their gender means for their intellectual capacity are formed before they have even turned six. One idea that's particularly pervasive and dangerous is that, only boys are good at maths and science.
Over 55% of the students being awarded first class honors at Makerere Univeristy's 67th graduation ceremony starting today are female.
For six years now, Esupat Loseku has known the joy of an income outside of livestock sales. The 29-year-old mother of six installs solar power systems and builds cookstoves in Enguiki village and its environs in northern Tanzania.
21 February 2017 – Almost 1.4 million children are at imminent risk of death due to severe acute malnutrition this year, as famine threatens in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, warned the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), urging prompt action to save them.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a new initiative to support and empower rural women across the country.
The organisation last week launched the second phase of Rural Women Economic Empowerment (RWEE) project to help accelerate economic empowerment for women.
Source: The Guardian
Life of forced prostitution awaits majority of the 11,009 Nigerian women who arrived on Italy's shores last year, says International Organisation for Migration.
Source: IntLawGrrls
In a decision that can be interpreted a historic milestone and a ‘triple high-five’ for the promotion of accountability for women’s human rights in Africa; for the recognition of violence against women as a violation of human rights, and for the emerging role of African regional courts in addressing human rights issues, on the 24th of January, 2017, the ECOWAS Court (the ECCJ or the Court) ruled that it has the competence to hear a case of domestic violence instituted against the Federal Government of Nigeria by two NGOs. I review that decision in this post.
Source: The Monitor
There was mixed reactions as members of the10thparliament deliberated on how to re-table the Marriage and Divorce Bill that has spent more than a decade on the floor of parliament.
Source: The Citizen
A five-year plan has been adopted by Plan International organization to prevent over 12,000 young girls in four regions in Tanzania from child marriage.