Source: Fair Observer
The growth of cooperatives is one example of how women in the Middle East and North Africa are fighting back and showing resilience.
Source: World.Mic
Ask Aline Kabanda the key to Rwanda's future success, and she will tell you: educating and empowering women.
Source: News Deeply
According to the World Health Organization’s 2006 study on domestic violence, the most common form of violence against women is perpetrated by their intimate partners. But in many parts of Africa, the rape of a woman by her husband isn’t considered a crime.
Source: Premium Times
Government officials and other authorities in Nigeria have raped and sexually exploited women and girls displaced by the conflict with Boko Haram, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
Source: News Deeply
One night earlier this month, a lesbian couple were sleeping at home after having returned from a music festival in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, in eastern South Africa. They were woken by loud noises outside. Shortly after, a group of men kicked down their door, entered the house and demanded sex.
Source: Front Page Africa
Macdella Cooper, who previously acknowledged to the New York Post that her third child is fathered by football legend and Montserrado County Senator George Weah and expressed interest in becoming the future First Lady of Liberia is now eyeing the Liberian presidency, becoming the first woman to do so for the 2017 Presidential elections.
Source: News Deeply
In early 2013, as women and children fleeing Boko Haram flooded into the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, Fatima Askira watched them arrive to under-resourced makeshift camps with nothing more than the tattered clothes on their backs.
Source: UN Women
Between 1993 and 2005, the civil war in Burundi cost approximately 300,000 lives and left hundreds of thousands displaced. In 2015, strife erupted once again.
Source: UN Women
This week, as the United Nations Security Council holds the annual Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security to discuss protection of women and girls in conflict and women’s leadership in preventing, resolving, and recovering from conflicts, the war in Syria enters its sixth year, contributing to a global refugee crisis. Iraqi forces enter Mosul amidst a dire humanitarian situation, and peace remains uncertain in countries such as South Sudan and Colombia.
Source: African Peacebuilding Network
Africa faces formidable challenges with regard to the relatively few women influencing decisions and policies related to peace and security.
Source: News Deeply Women & Girls Hub
Studies of women’s political participation tend to focus on totting up MPs and cabinet ministers. A pilot investigation into women’s leadership in African governments and legislatures adds two new indicators to look at their influence, not just the numbers.
Source: Nigeria Today
Former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said that involvement of women in the Federal Government’s financial inclusion programmes could add about 10 to 12 per cent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Source: allAfrica
Johannesburg — IT was an interesting, though provoking media discussion that was called to debate the role of women in the media.
Source: The Huffington Post
‘Sexual harassment, well that’s everywhere!’ says one schoolteacher in the small dusty town of Mbour. I’m in the small West African nation of Senegal researching how women perceive their access to justice for my foundation Project Monma.
Source: The New York Times
Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar, two young Iraqis who escaped sexual slavery by the Islamic State and became advocates for women’s rights, were honored on Thursday with the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the European Union’s top human rights award.
Source: The Herald
New findings presented at the HIV Research for Prevention 2016 conference currently underway in Chicago, United States have revealed how social harms such as gender-based violence, especially intimate partner violence have a negative effect on adherence.
Source: Daily News
The University of Botswana Careers Counseling Centre, in collaboration with gender affairs department, recently held a candlelight session to commemorate gender based violence.
Source: allAfrica
Bong County Senator Jewel Howard Taylor is urging Liberian political parties to be gender sensitive in the composition of their leadership structures.
Source: Daily Nation
Employers in Nakuru County will be compelled to have a 50 per cent representation of women in the decision making structures of their firms if the county assembly assents a new Bill.
Source: DW
Activists and the victims of the Darfur genocide are calling on the international community to do more to end the ongoing violence against women and children in the Darfur region of Sudan.