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.
Source: EU Bulletin
The EU has released a new assistance package worth €50 million in support of the empowerment of Egyptian women and the improvement of water resources management.
Source: The New Times
Almost 8 out of every 10 primary school teachers are female. But as you go up in the ranks of school leadership the females are far less.
Source: Daily Trust
A workshop for media professionals has called on states yet to domesticate the law on violence against persons to do so without further delay.
Source: News24
Nelson Mandela Bay has the lowest number of women in its council among the country's eight metros, the Commission for Gender Equality revealed in a study released on Tuesday.
Source: FrontPageAfrica
When the taboo subject of female circumcision, also known as female genital mutilation (FGM) became the subject of national debate in 2012, many leaders spoke out against the practice and the government prohibited the Sande societies which practiced it.
Source: allAfrica
A group of 37 non-government organisations dealing in the promotion of girl-child rights have asked President Museveni to honour his campaign pledge and deliver the sanitary pads he promised during the presidential campaigns early this year.