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.
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: UN Women
Imagine going on an ambitious road trip: you’ve got the map, you know where you’re starting from and where you want to go but you’re missing crucial information.
Source: Daily Trust
Marie Stopes Nigeria said it is introducing new digital capabilities into its customer and beneficiaries' interactions in Nigeria.
Source: The Monitor
Kampala — With nearly two months left to usher in the 2016/2017 fiscal year, women activists have urged government to increase funding to the Gender ministry.
Source: Ekkelsia
Sexual and reproductive health services must be not just "youth-friendly" but also “male- and female-friendly" and "youth participatory" so that young men and women gain access to the information and services they need and want, agreed adolescents who attended a workshop in Lomé, Togo on 24-25 March.
Source: Gadget
The global Start-up Tel Aviv competition gives step-ups an opportunity to spend a week in the third biggest high-tech start-up hub in the world.
This competition is open to all South African women who are the founders or senior managers of any company in the hi-tech field which is in early stage seed funding. This year the competition has a particular focus on women tech leaders and aims to reward innovation and entrepreneurship in the hi-tech sector.
Source: IOL
Cape Town - Justice and Constitutional Development regional head Hisham Mohamed has called for civil society and the government to intensify its efforts in curbing the scourge of violent crime against women and children.
Source: VanGuard
The International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 every year. The focus of the celebration in different countries ranges from general celebration of love, appreciation and respect towards women to political, economic and social achievements. The theme for this year is “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for gender equality”. Nigerian women are worth celebrating. They have seized and optimised the little opportunities they had to be where they are today.