Source: United Nations Centre
Concluding her first visit to Mali, a United Nations envoy has stressed the need to make the issue of sexual violence in conflict a central consideration of the ongoing peace process in the African country.
Source: This Day
The police have traditionally been regarded as men's profession.
Source: The New Times
Prime Minister Anastase Murekezi, on Thursday, presided over an oath-taking ceremony of five prosecutors at the primary level at his office in Kimihurura.
Source: The Analyst
Monrovia — President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has assured Women Behind Wheels (WBW) of government's continued support to help empower less fortunate and street girls in various employable skills including driving, painting, hospitality and business throughout the country aimed at enhancing their proficiency, growth and sustainability of adolescent girls and young women.
Source: Malawi News Agency
Lilongwe — Journalists from the Central Region on Friday 15th April, 2016 underwent a Family Planning and Human Rights Protocol training workshop organised by the United Nations Population Agency (UNFPA) at Nkopola Lodge in Mangochi district.
Source: Reuters
When she was 15, long before she became gender adviser to Sierra Leone's president, Naasu Fofanah was raped by her church pastor.
Source: Mmegi
The Southern African Development Community (SADC), under the chairmanship of President Ian Khama, has rejected a proposal by the European and Latin American countries to include gays, sex workers and drug addicts in their master plan HIV/AIDS and the girl child resolution.
Source: Mic
Gender equality will turn women into lesbians, prostitutes and other bad things, in case you haven't heard the news.
Source: Aljazeera
Lobby group says UN has not disclosed full number of sexual abuse claims against troops in Central African Republic.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
SOUTHERN African Development Community (SADC) member states have been urged to join hands to ensure accessing to Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) services a human right not a privilege bestowed on a few.
Source: Big News Network
At 8 years of age, Sadatu Reeves came across photographs of women police officers in a magazine her father brought home from abroad. The empowered images sparked a deep-seated desire to don her own uniform.
Source: Daily Nation
A team from Kenya is one of the nine winners of a Sh120million global award for innovations to Prevent Gender-Based Violence.
Source: The Namibian
There is courage to be drawn from those who have gone before. There is strength to be collected in the stark black words of those who have taken a simple yet subversive stand and lived bright though briefly in a world that often questions a woman's solitude, her independencem and her unyielding ambition.
Source: Brookline
The struggle for women’s rights takes a much different form in Nigeria.
“The main things that affect women in all cultures have kept Nigerian women in a subservient way,” says Ifeoma Fafunwa, whose “Hear Word! Naija woman Talk True,” a staged dramatization of women’s issues in her homeland that she wrote and directs, will be performed this weekend at the Harvard Dance Center.
Source: Eye Witness News
The Social Development Department says it’s concerned about a growing trend of young South African pregnant women becoming involved with drug syndicates across borders.
Source: Huffington Post
Mozambique, which has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, announced a national plan on Monday to put an end to the institution.
Source: BBC
A video released by the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram appears to prove that some of the schoolgirls kidnapped two years ago from the town of Chibok are still alive.
Source: UN Women
At 8 years of age, Sadatu Reeves came across photographs of women police officers in a magazine her father brought home from abroad.
Source: The Citizen
Arusha — After decades of agitating for property ownership, pastoralist women in the remote villages in Ngorongoro District, Arusha Region, can now approach banks and other financial institutions for loans after securing customary land titles.
Source: Daily News
Gaborone — Performance art has been carried on to the contemporary art forum with the aim of challenging the audience to think of art in a new way, breaking what art is, says Kate Kwati.