Source: The Southern Times
ZIMBABWE’S First Lady Grace Mugabe has commended The Southern Times for encouraging and promoting discourse on the empowerment of women.
Source: BABW News
Girls are 40 percent more likely to carry out household chores than boys which can inhibit their enjoyment of childhood.
Source: The Citizen
On July 8, this year, human rights activists had a reason to celebrate after the High Court declared early marriage illegal.
Source: Daily Observer
The UNICEF Resident Representative in The Gambia has said that significant progress has been made towards gender equality in Gambia in the past 15 years.
Source: BBC
One girl under the age of 15 is married every seven seconds, according to a new report by Save the Children.
Source: The Guardian
About 20 million women and girls in Nigeria have undergone female genital mutilation, 10% of the global total, according to a comprehensive report released on Tuesday.
Source: The New Times
Rwandan rural women, together with their counterparts from various countries on the continent, will today convene at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in an effort to advocate for unrestricted women’s rights to land and other natural resources across the continent.
Source: News24
Cape Town - The reworked Traditional Courts Bill will be reintroduced to Parliament before the end of the year, the Department of Justice and Correctional Services said on Wednesday.
Source: UN Women
New York/Lilongwe—On the eve of International Day of the Girl Child, UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson today visited Malawi to shine a global spotlight on the need to end child marriage. She met with traditional chiefs and girls who have returned to school after having marriages annulled.
Rwanda will back the candidature of Dr Amina Mohammed, the Kenyan Foreign Affairs and International Trade Cabinet Secretary for the position of African Union Commission Chairperson.
Source: allAfrica
The fight against gender-based violence just got a little easier with the invention of a mobile application that allows potential victims to send an SOS message to their trusted friends when in danger.
Source: allAfrica
Liberia will join nations of the world to celebrate the "International Day of the Girl Child," on October 11 as a Working Holiday.
Source: Daily Monitor
General Wamala said women serving in the forces should double their efforts and be appointed to higher ranks.
Source: The East African
At least three eminent women are set to join President Paul Kagame's team that is charged with spearheading reforms at the African Union.
Source: UNSOM
Somali women leaders have called for a stop to politicization of the 30 percent gender rule.
Source: Al-Monitor
A controversial bill in Egypt that would make the penalties for adultery the same for men and women faces many hurdles.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
When Nigerian teenager Beauty arrived in Sicily after crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa last year, she had only hours to phone the man who trafficked her - or risk lethal repercussions for family members back home.
Source: Broadly.
When I call Fadumo Dayib, she tells me she's in the middle of a school run and driving her car. Straight away I notice her way with words; the way she pauses to choose the right word with each sentence. "I had a very interesting childhood," she tells me, "one that was happy but was also very sad. It's one that I don't like to dwell on. But I think it's what has made me who I am, it has actually defined who I am in a very positive way—not negatively."
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Female members of Boko Haram are almost as likely as men to be deployed as fighters in northeast Nigeria, challenging a widespread perception that these women are mainly used as cooks, sex slaves and suicide bombers, researchers said on Monday.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Girls between the ages of five and 14 are spending 40 percent more time on unpaid domestic chores than boys their age, missing out on chances to learn and enjoy their childhood, according to a report on Friday ahead of International Day of the Girl.