Source: This Day
From hawking commonplace foodstuff in her village, she became a house help for an opportunity to attend secondary school.
Source: Nigeria Today
This year’s European Union (EU) Day celebrations have been dedicated by the regional organisation to protecting the rights of African women, its Ambassador and Head of delegation to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Mr. Michael Arrion disclosed yesterday.
Source: The Guardian
On a cold and wet morning, a large group of protesters – many of them bare- breasted – gathered to protest on the Rhodes university campus in Grahamstown, South Africa.
Source: St. Johns Edu
At 17 years old, two Maryland high school students took action against the cycle of poverty that traps many young people in their families’ hometown of Bali Nyonga, Cameroon.
Source: allAfrica
As internet access increases across Africa, it is giving our citizens new development opportunities and freedom of expression. But there’s a dark side to this transformation. Trolling, hacking, spamming and online harassment are wreaking havoc on the psyches of our women and girls, effectively silencing us.
Source: Daily Mail
Amnesty International has given its top 2016 human rights award to Grammy Award-winning musician Angélique Kidjo and to three African youth activist movements for their work standing up to injustice, the organisation announced on Wednesday.
Source: Amnesty International
The statistics tell a sobering tale. Burkina Faso has the 7th highest rate of child marriage in the world.
Source: Thomson Reuters
LONDON, May 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Amnesty International has given its top 2016 human rights award to Grammy Award-winning musician Angélique Kidjo and to three African youth activist movements for their work standing up to injustice, the organisation announced on Wednesday.
Source: Front Page Africa
Kakata — The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) has launched the fourth round of its Economic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (EPAG) Project, highlighting the inclusion of boys.
Source: Thomson Reuters
Dakar — Investing in an "army of midwives" across Nigeria will cut the number of stillbirths and women dying during or after giving birth, a leading women's rights activist said ahead of the West African nation's first global conference on midwifery.
Source: New Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) will this year give special recognition to women in the media and arts industry.
Source: Botswana Daily News
Gaborone — Minister of Infrastructure, Science and Technology, Mr Nonofo Molefhi, says government is committed to empowerment of girls and women through extensive use of ICTs.
Source: UN Women
From where I stand: Tebogo Mashego
Source: Times of Zambia
PAYMENT of dowry (referred to as Lobola) by a man who wants to marry a woman in most African societies, is one of the things that constitutes marriage under customary law.
SOUTH AFRICA: Dismantling Rape Culture On Campuses Has Become A Divisive Issue For Student Movements
Source: The Daily Vox
Dismantling rape culture on campuses has become a divisive issue for student movements.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
YOUTHS in secondary schools taking science subjects have been advised to take up midwifery to have more number professionals in the country.
Source: ENCA
Sello Mkhomazi has been sentenced in Mpumalanga to 439 years and nine months imprisonment for raping nine women and a 13-year-old girl around KwaMhlanga and Vaalbank between 2009 and 2012.
Source: IOL
A civilian doctor has been arrested on charges of alleged sexual assault on two new female soldier recruits at the SA Army Infantry School in Oudtshoorn, the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) confirmed on Thursday.
Source: FrontPageAfrica
When Nobel peace prize laureate Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was elected Africa’s first female head of state in 2005, expectations were high.
Source: Citizen Kenya
When Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, was elected as Africa’s first female Head of State in 2005, expectations were high. Throughout both her terms as president, she has talked about her firm commitment to women’s rights, coming out strongly in particular in favour of the health and safety of women and girls.