Source: Thomson Reuters
Campaigners are finding more and more holes in official data to track where and which women need help.

Source: The New Times
Zeinab Badawi is a celebrated journalist and senior news anchor.

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Call them warriors, trailblazers or pacesetters; these are some of Africa’s most inspirational women spearheading change. Their names do not remain esteemed by virtue of their accrued wealth but due to their social empowerment initiatives rousing transformation and enriching lives.

Source: The Cable
Health experts say Sayana Press, self-injectable contraceptives, currently being tested in Uganda and Senegal could revolutionise lives of women, particularly in rural Africa.

Source: News Deeply
When Theresa Kachindamoto got a call from the chiefs of Malawi’s Dedza district telling her she had to come home to rule over almost a million people, she was reluctant.

Source:News Deeply
In Togo, thousands of young girls trafficked from villages are living in poverty on the streets of Lome. Many of them have escaped a life of domestic servitude, sex work or other forms of manual labor, after being taken from their homes to neighboring countries such as Nigeria, facilitated by traffickers known as ogas – often older female relatives or family friends.

Source: News Deeply
When, in June 2012, the wife of al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri called on Muslim mothers to raise their children to support violent extremism, Somali women’s groups issued a public condemnation.

Source: SouthAfrica.info
Pinky Zungu would not have minded working as a pilot on a ship until the day she retired. But she was given what she describes as a more exhilarating position at Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA): Zungu is the first black female to be appointed the deputy harbour master: nautical at the Port of Durban.

Source:ISS Africa
A famous maxim of uncertain origin defines insanity as doing the same thing repeatedly, but expecting different results. In her opening statement at the United Nations (UN) High-Level Thematic Debate on Peace and Security, Nobel Peace laureate Leymah Gbowee used this definition to describe challenges faced by UN engagements in peace operations and peacebuilding.

Source:The Herald
Former Cabinet Minister Cde Webster Shamu was yesterday named in Parliament as the proprietor of a downtown strip tease joint that was allegedly used as a recruitment point in the trafficking of 150 women to Kuwait and other countries in the Middle East.

Source:Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle has learned that South Africa's Public Protector, who took on President Jacob Zuma over the use of taxpayers' money to upgrade his home, will be awarded the prestigious prize for her commitment to fighting corruption.

Source:The New Times (Kigali)
Cultural stigma and laxity to acknowledge gender mainstreaming efforts are some of the challenges still hampering Government's pursuit of gender equality, stakeholders in gender promotion have heard.

Source:The New Times (Kigali)
Female sex workers, being among the highest risk groups for contracting HIV, are priority segment of the population in the ongoing national efforts to fight the virus.

Source:VanGuard
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a three-year $80 million commitment to close the gender data gap and accelerate progress for women and girls around the world.

Source: GhanaWeb
Her Excellency Dr. Joyce Banda, former President of the Republic of Malawi has passionately reiterated the imperative need for African women to strategize and deal with the election process at the grassroots level not because they know the people at the grassroots but because that is the only way they will be recognized and also make a difference at that level.   

Source: Women Deliver
With Women Deliver Live, we’re raising the bar! We are producing an original broadcast program packed with an all-star line-up of events, debates, and one-on-one interviews exclusively for all those who can’t join us in Copenhagen.

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Female genital mutilation (FGM) will never end until men also throw their weight behind efforts to eradicate the potentially deadly practice, says Nigerian law student and anti-FGM activist Kelechukwu Nwachukwu.

Source: World Health Organisation
New WHO recommendations aim to help health workers provide better care to the more than 200 million girls and women worldwide living with female genital mutilation.

Source: Open Society Foundations
“The revolution is a woman,” declared Mariam Kirollos to a room of over 160 African feminists, who convened in Harare, Zimbabwe, last month for the fourth African Feminist Forum (AFF).

SOURCE: REUTERS
As the head of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is used to people rolling their eyes when she starts to talk about women’s empowerment and the need for equality for girls globally.

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