Source: Awareness Times
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, May 23, 2016// —President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma opened the International Conference “Women Engineering Change, Accelerating the Peace in Achieving Results, Touching and Changing Lives and Contributing to Sustainable Development” organizead by the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children Affairs in collaboration with UN Women, Plan International, Food and Agricultural Organization and World Food Programme to look into issues of women’s empowerment and gender equality across the globe.
Source: The Guardian
Millions of women and girls in the world’s poorest countries are being denied the opportunity to help drive development because of the “countless barriers” they still face in health, education and employment, a report warns.
Source: UN Population Fund
The world is currently facing its worst refugee crisis since the Second World War, due to conflicts, persecutions and natural disasters intensified by climate change. And tens of millions still living in their homes or displaced within their own countries are also in critical need of humanitarian services.
Source: IRIN
The number of people forced from their homes by conflict and persecution has now reached an estimated 60 million. The reason is not more wars, but conflicts that have become more intractable and drawn out. More than 80 percent of refugee crises now last for 10 or more years and two out of five last for at least 20 years.
Source: Al Jazeera
Since it was formed in 2010, UN Women has carried the mandate of promoting gender equality and women's empowerment across the globe. Success has been mostly patchy for an agency that must navigate social and cultural barriers and the sensitivities of member states.
Source: African Union
In January 2014, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, HE Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma decided to appoint a Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) with the task “to ensure that the voices of women and the vulnerable are heard much more clearly in peace building and in conflict resolution”.
Source: UN Women
Briefing the General Assembly on the challenges being faced and progress being made to end the exploitation and abuse by United Nations peacekeepers, senior UN officials today indicated that immediate concerns have been focused on providing protection and support to the victims, and reiterated the need for collective efforts to put stronger measures in place to ensure prevention and greater accountability.
Source:News Deeply
Women and Girls Hub: First, tell us a little bit about the global landscape for vaccinations today. How many kids are in need of vaccinations in the developing world?
Source:News Deeply
Heba Alshibani did not set out to become a journalist. She had expected to become an academic, as many members of her Libyan family had before the February 2011 uprising that led to the overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi [Gaddafi].
Source: UNWomen
Disasters kill more women than men and hit women’s livelihoods hardest. According to UN reports, 60 per cent of all maternal deaths take place in humanitarian settings and all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls spike during disasters and conflict.
Source: The Herald
On July 20, 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike gained global fame for Sri Lanka when she became the world's first woman prime minister.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
Tanzania Women Chamber of Commerce (TWCC) plans to carry out business trainings on women in cross border trade in order to enable them grasp and fully utilise the East African Common market business opportunities.
Source: The Ethopian Herald
Women contribution to socioeconomic progress is immense and among others their entrepreneurial and business skills which benefit the society can be mentioned.
Source: Gadget
The Start-Up Tel Aviv South Africa competition this year provides a life-changing experience for women tech entrepreneurs. In its third year, the competition offers the immense benefit of traveling to Israel for a week of meetings, workshops and networking opportunities with some of the world’s leading tech and start-up experts. The winner will spend five-days, all-expenses paid, in a start-up experience in the heart of Tel Aviv in September 2016, during the innovative DLD Festival.
Source: The Eagle Online
Considering Africa’s strong cultural and belief system, which downplays the position of women in social, political and economic development and the current situation, in the last one decade, significant progress has been recorded in creating equal opportunities for female gender in Africa. In communities across Africa, the contribution of women to economic development and political transformation is bogus and indispensable.
Source: IOL
Cape Town - The on-going litany of rapes and murders of women and girls keeps the spotlight on South Africa's shocking culture of rape and gender-based violence.
Source: The Ethopian Herald
The Oromo People's Democratic Organization (OPDO) Women League Tuesday held its 3rd conference focusing on the need for strengthening the ongoing efforts to ensure women participation and benefit from the developmental activities through addressing good governance and rent seeking problems on Tuesday in Adama.
Source: Daily Observer
Naomi Tulay-Solanke, the Founder and Executive Director of Community Health Initiative (CHI), a non-governmental organization that is providing healthcare and social services in underprivileged and slum communities in Liberia, recently came up with a good idea to keep girls in school during their menstruation period.
Source: The New Times
The Minister for Gender and Family Promotion, Dr Diane Gashumba, has called for more funding to women entrepreneurs.
Source: UN Women
At the “A Call to Action for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment” conference at UN Headquarters in New York on 17 May, experts and advocates highlighted solutions to address the existing barriers in advancing equality for women and girls, followed by an evening gala with a performance by Jewel.