Source: Morocco World News
Rabat – Stephanie Willman and Saida Kouzzi, along with a slew of NGOs and women’s rights activists, are working to change this.
Source: Algerie Presse Service
WASHINGTON- The strengthening of women’s participation in the political life in Algeria has been hailed as leading experience in the promotion of the Arab women’s leadership, as part of the Fifth Annual Arab-American Day held in Washington.
Source: MGAfrica
Young female African entrepreneurs must speak out and act as role models to inspire other women to shake up a profession dominated by white men, according to the co-founder of a business helping women entrepreneurs in Nigeria.
Tanzanian police in the Tarime/Rorya Special Zone and their Kenyan counterparts have agreed to cooperate in the fight against female genital mutilation (FGM).
Source: The Herald
Zimbabwe has made significant strides over women in the workplace and is now ranked sixth out of 27 countries including the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries on the African continent, a recent study has shown.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"We give practical training to girls in colleges on how energy is generated from the sun, water and human waste," says one training organisation
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"For some women trapped in domestic life, Boko Haram offers an escape"
Source: allAfrica
Dakar — "It's hard for young female African entrepreneurs to feel like they fit in, if they can't see any role models out there"
Source: Council on Foreign Relations
Nigeria has been identified as one of eleven emerging economies with high growth potential for the coming decades. And yet, Nigeria is far from achieving the World Bank’s goal of universal financial access by 2020, with women comprising the majority of Nigeria’s “unbanked.” Only one-third of Nigerian women own a bank account, compared with more than half of Nigerian men, a stubborn gender gap that has grown, not shrunk, in recent years, from 7 percent in 2011 to 21 percent in 2014.
Source: Morocco World News
Rabat – Outspoken member of the Saudi royal family Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has urged an end to the ban on women driving in his country in a statement on his official Twitter account.
Source: CNN
The number of new HIV infections 'is not declining' and young women the world over are still at risk.
Women serving in security organs in more than thirty countries in Africa have pledged to keep up efforts against gender-based violence (GBV) by meeting more often to share their experiences and monitoring violence against women and girls more closely in their countries.
The Department of Social Development has launched the National Emergency Response Team (NERT) to provide psycho-social support to victims affected by gender-based violence.
The National Paralympics Committee (NPC) president Celestin Nzeyimana has said that the body will continue to empower women with disability through sports.
Experts in healthcare and Information Communication Technology have called upon innovators to create solutions that improve access, planning, availability and quality of sexual and reproductive health information and services.
Source: Daily News
The government yesterday came under spotlight when former Speaker of the National Assembly pushed the authority to fast track repeal of the Marriage Act-1971 and Inheritance Law in order to enhance justice and protection to women and girls in their rights.
Source: allAfrica
Experts will discuss issues ranging from research to policy into action toward ending unsafe abortion in Africa
Source: euronews
Somalia is a patriarchal society which has never had a female leader until recently when two women took a step to make that dream a reality.
Source: The Guardian
For the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, state TV aired a lesson in applying concealer to facial bruises. Why did anyone think this was a good idea?
Source: Nyasa Times
The Malawi National Assembly has passed a Land Amendment Bill that seeks to empower not only the poor, but also women who struggle to access land due to cultural issues.