Source: allAfrica
With only 41 per cent of countries regularly producing data on violence against women and only 13 per cent of countries having a dedicated gender statistics budget, the first-ever United Nations World Data Forum today explored ways to close these data gaps.
Fifteen year old girl Bahati (not her real name) was raped by her step brother on May 12 last year, just a day after celebrating her birth day.
Source: Foroyaa
The Senegal-Gambia-Guinea Bissau Women's Forum in collaboration with the Gender Action Team (GAT) will organize a 'Peace Tent' tomorrow Wednesday, 18th January, 2017 at the Paradise Suites Hotel from 12pm-3pm.
With only 41 per cent of countries regularly producing data on violence against women and only 13 per cent of countries having a dedicated gender statistics budget, the first-ever United Nations World Data Forum today explored ways to close these data gaps.
Source: Daily Observer
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called on political parties in the country to increase women's participation and go beyond what was agreed to with the international community and ensure that at least 35 percent of all opportunities are given to women to enter elections race.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
When the Kenyan government announced five years ago that coal deposits had been found in the Mui Basin, a land of rolling hills and pristine forests east of Nairobi, local farmers hoped the discovery would help transform their livelihoods.
Source: HerZimbabwe
She was named one of the ten most inspiring African women under 30 by African Woman magazine; has been interviewed by Al Jazeera, BBC Africa, Voice of America, New York Times, NTV and so many others.
Source: World Policy Journal
NAIROBI, Kenya—When Bina Maseno was 23, she decided to run for Council Assembly in Nairobi City County and reached out to a few experienced female politicians for advice. She expected to hear suggestions for navigating party power dynamics or articulating campaign messages for a broader audience. But what she got was a primer in protecting herself from sexual assault by male politicians and putative voters.
Source: Premium Times
The Federal Government's advocacy on the use of contraceptive among sexually active women in Nigeria for the prevention of unwanted pregnancy and abortion is beginning to yield positive results as more women are recorded to be embracing the method.
Source: The Ethiopian Herald
Just like other developing countries and few developed nations as well as the days of yore, women in Ethiopia until recent past were pushed from the boons of social life owing to the deeply entrenched and culturally programmed positive bias or preferential treatments accorded to males.
Source: News24Wire
While South Africa came in for much criticism in Human Rights Watch's latest world report, its progressive approach to gender issues was welcomed.
Source: Daily Nation
More women are throwing their hats in the ring for political posts in western and southern Kenya, in what is expected to be one of the most competitive elections in recent history.
Source: Al Jazeera
Morocco has banned the production and sale of full-face Muslim veils apparently for security reasons, according to local media reports.
Source: Vanguard
Nkemdili Okeke (not real name) is a secondary school certificate holder who got married in 2011 at the age of 25, to a wealthy businessman in the South-Eastern part of Nigeria. Five years after marriage, she was yet to conceive. She was subjected to dehumanising treatments by her husband’s family.
Source: allAfrica
The Government-initiated Command Agriculture programme has benefited women who had the zeal to farm but were facing challenges in accessing loans from banks due to stringent requirements, a beneficiary of the programme Mrs Patience Tapomwa of Belford North Estate in Mazowe has said.
Source: The Guardian
The number of Nigerian women travelling by boat from Libya to Italy almost doubled last year, with the vast majority of new arrivals victims of sex trafficking and exploitation, according to the International Organisation for Migration.
Source: The Guardian
An Egyptian court has upheld an earlier ruling to freeze the assets of three prominent rights activists, the latest chapter in a widening government crackdown against civil society groups.
Source: Media Focus on Africa
Women representation in political life has yet to reach meaningful ratio vis-à-vis their proportion of the nation. Between 1963 and 2013 only 74 women made it to the National Assembly, 49 elected and 25 nominated. The 2013 election in Kenya was the first General Election to incorporate elective and nominated affirmative action seats for women.
Source: Daily Monitor
Traffickers who smuggle Ugandan girls through Kenya to different destinations in the Middle East and South Africa have built a syndicate involving police officers, other security officers and immigration staff from Uganda and Kenya, an investigation by Sunday Monitor has revealed.
Source: The Guardian
Despite recent reforms, and a reputation as one of Africa's most progressive democracies, Kenya is failing to close the gender gap in political representation.