Source: This Day
A group of young Nigerian women have canvassed for a stronger gender and equal opportunities Bill to enshrine gender equality and eliminate gender based discrimination in Nigeria.
Source: Daily Observer
A women's advocacy group, Hope for Women and Girls Incorporated (HFWNC), recently launched its girls'educational empowerment project to enhance girls' education.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Rural women are hugely knowledgeable about climate change - but that expertise isn't making it into the negotiations.
Source: Daily News
Women and Sport Botswana (WASBO) has finally signed the Brighton Plus Helsinki 2014 Declaration on Women and Sport.
Source: News Deeply
Sisters Sarah, 16, and Jane, 17, sat with their arms linked under one of the few trees in the austere landscape surrounding Nyumanzi Refugee Transit Center. They were among 38,000 South Sudanese – most of them women and children – who had fled to neighboring Uganda during the escalation of violence in July. They were in school in Kerepi, Eastern Equatoria State, when armed men attacked their school. “They [were] shooting people; many people died. They even shot our watchman,” Jane said. “We were playing [in the football field] and then they started to shoot. We ran to the bush. We escaped from there. At night. We reached Nimule after two days.”
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
People displaced by war across the world are at heightened risk of human trafficking due to gaps in the United Nations' response, campaigners said on Monday, calling for the creation of a new U.N. office to fight modern slavery.
Source: News Deeply
Before Jamila joined the Superwoman Network in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, she felt powerless and alone in her struggle to cope with years of violence from the two closest men in her life.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Girls in conflict-ravaged eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are joining armed groups because they cannot afford to go to school, while former girl soldiers struggle to return to class amid stigma from their communities, a charity said on Monday.
Source: News Deeply
There are myriad complex reasons why South Africa has such high rates of gender-based violence. High unemployment rates and poverty have left many men feeling frustrated and powerless, while the nation’s recent past – the armed struggle against apartheid – led to a normalization of violence.
Source: allAfrica
Tarime — Members of child protection teams are undergoing special training aimed at strengthening child protection measures in Tarime District, Mara Region.
Source: The Guardian
Liberia’s president has said Hillary Clinton’s defeat was a missed opportunity for women around the world, as fears grew that Donald Trump’s victory in the US election would damage women’s lives and political hopes far beyond America’s borders.
Source: The Star Kenya
November 2014 will remain etched in the minds of thousands of women and for the most gruesome of reasons.
Source: allAfrica
Some women in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Thursday decried discrimination in Nigeria against women marrying younger men, while seeing nothing wrong in men having much younger wives.
Source: Ghana Business News
The fifth African Union High Level Dialogue on Human Rights is set for November 23 to November 26 at Arusah, United Republic of Tanzania to take stock and reflect on its achievements in the search of a better life for all segments.
Source: News24 Wire
A rights group has called for the immediate lifting of a "deeply discriminatory ban on visibly pregnant girls attending school and taking exams" in Sierra Leone.
Source: Vanguard
To avert the death of approximately one million children and women annually from preventable diseases in Nigeria, stakeholders in child and family health services have called for upward review of budgetary allocation and prompt release of funds for health to ensure improved healthcare services at the primary level.
Source: allAfrica
At least one per cent of the Mozambican state budget should be earmarked for activities focused on gender equality.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"I want to go to Italy because I want to make money. If it is prostitution, I'll do it."
Source: allAfrica
Grace* raised her children in the cramped corridors of Kampala's slums where proximity and necessity make neighbours de facto family members. But everyone looked the other way when her husband started beating her.
Source: npr
Nigeria is deploying 100 female police officers to protect women in displaced persons camps in the state of Borno, after a scathing Human Rights Watch report said officials, including security guards, have "raped and sexually exploited" dozens of women.