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.
Source: NewsDay
GOVERNMENT is reportedly failing to raise about $12 000 required to bring back about 32 of the over 200 Zimbabwean women stranded in Kuwait after falling victim to human trafficking.
Source: Africanews
A report by Amnesty International has indicated that Burkina Faso has one of the world’s highest rates of forced and early marriages.
Source: News Medical
Women in sub-Saharan Africa who use modern contraceptives are more likely to be tested for HIV than those who do not, according to a study published April 25, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Katherine Center from the University of Arizona and colleagues.
Source: Bella Naija
A unique lineup of bright business minds are set to empower entrepreneurs at the Africa StartUp Cup regional summit in Accra on April 29th 2016.
StartUp Cup is a U.S. Department of State – led accelerator programme which supports growing of companies and startups that provide solutions to problems across the globe. Now in over 68 countries worldwide, Africa’s regional presence commences its maiden regional summit on April 29th at the Alisa Hotel.
Source: Business Ghana
The late termination of pregnancies displaying severe foetal anomalies is both an ethically and morally challenging dilemma. The outbreak of the mosquito born Zika virus in South America last year is a good example of this dilemma faced by under resourced countries. What started out as a question about containment and the causal relationship between the Zika virus and microcephaly, quickly escalated into an issue about access to reproductive health and women's right to abortion.
Source: The Guardian
When Nobel peace prize laureate Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was elected 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 favour of the health and safety of women and girls.