Source: The Independent
Chairperson of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Rebecca Kadaga has urged fellow legislators to help end violence targeted at women during elections.
Born in 1979 in Kaoma district in the western part of Zambia, Likonge Makai, an energy systems expert, did not know that one day she would be a source of light to many families in Zambia.
Source: allAfrica
Government has launched new national guidelines on clinical care and management of survivors of sexual violence.
Source: allAfrica
Monrovia — The United States Ambassador to Liberia Christine Elder says the wounds of the civil war are still affecting women who were raped during the crises.
Source: allAfrica
Mara — Tarime is among the six districts in Mara Region, where child marriage is still being practised, despite campaigns by local and international organisations to stop it.
Source: News Deeply
On the dusty soccer field of a high school in Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), coach Claire Kabongo emerges from a team of boys and dashes off to check on the girls. “Faster, Camille!” she shouts to one of the students, running alongside her.
Source: News Deeeply
When researchers for the Washington, D.C.-based spoke to people in rural Kenya and Zambia about their views on child marriage, they heard a range of reasons for why a girl might get married before she turns 18, from financial necessity to tradition. “She has not gone to school for long, so she cannot wait that long for the right age to get married,” said one mother. “She cannot just sit around waiting to turn 20.”
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Almost 200,000 Kenyan households, many headed by poor, rural women, have lifted themselves out of poverty using mobile money services, experts said on Thursday, calling for the technology to be introduced in other developing countries.
Source: allAfrica
Kisubi — The Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC) is laying strategies to ensure women occupy at least 50 per cent of leadership roles in Ugandan sports federations in the next five years. Through the Women in Sport Commission, UOC has so far trained 232 women in modern sports management. 200 of those have attained certificates in sports management while 32 are to be honoured with diplomas in Advanced Sports Management.
Source: allAfrica
Luanda — The emancipation of women and gender equality are the result of a complex process of removing barriers that often requires a weighted practice of actions in favor of it, said Tuesday in Luanda, the Minister of Family and woman Promotion (MINFAMU), Filomena Delgado.
Source: IPS
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 13 2016 (IPS) - Achieving gender equality in UN staff appointments will be a “clear priority” for incoming UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, when he takes up the UN’s top administrative role in January 2017.
Source: Reuters
BUNAMBIYU, Tanzania, Dec 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the darkness falls on the plains around Bunambiyu, a remote village in Tanzania's northern Shinyanga region, Elizabeth Julius switches on her solar lantern to finish sewing clothes for her customers.
Source: Human Rights Watch
(Beirut) – Police arrested a leading Egyptian women’s rights defender at her home in Cairo on December 7, 2016, a serious escalation in the authorities’ ongoing crackdown on independent rights groups, Human Rights Watch said today.
The pervasive gender gap in economic activities is constraining the African continent from achieving its full economic potential, averaging a loss of about $95 billion annually or $580 billion in sub-Saharan Africa since 2010.
Efforts at eradicating the female genital mutilation, FGM, in Osun received a boost on Tuesday as 12 communities across four local governments declared their intentions to completely stop the practice.
Source: The Herald
Loud ululations capture the moment and joy reflected on the people's faces. The local authority has just announced that it will invest in constructing a borehole for the community.
SALGA calls for all political parties to respect and advance the imperative of gender equality.
Members of various religious groups in Malawi held street protests Tuesday against a proposed law that would expand women’s ability to terminate a pregnancy.
Source: allAfrica
Victoria — A new hospital offering specialized care for women and children will open in February, the Seychelles health authorities announced on Tuesday.
Source: news24
Lagos – Frustrated by living in poverty, gender discrimination and deep-rooted patriarchy, women in northeast Nigeria could easily be forced into joining the ranks of extremist groups, analysts have said.