Source: CNBC AFRICA
Tanzania will investigate accusations that some of its peacekeepers in Democratic Republic of Congo abused and exploited five women and six girls, leaving them all pregnant, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Source: Nehando Radio
Armed police on Wednesday morning disrupted a street demonstration in central Harare by women rights activists. The women were protesting against the Kuwait Embassy over the trafficking of Zimbabwean girls to the Middle Eastern country.
Source: CNN
A United Nations official is headed to the Central African Republic after reports that over 100 women, girls and boys were raped and abused -- many by U.N. peacekeepers.
Source: UN Women
The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women invites civil society organizations and governments to apply for funding through the 20th grant cycle (2016).
Source: The Observer
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga wants the President Museveni to appoint a woman to a level of prime minister.
Source: The Daily Vox
There are often myths and misconceptions about abortion that scare women who are already in a vulnerable situation.
Source: Leadership
A commercial photography company, STUDIO 24 had stated that plans has began to empower 50 women between the ages of 25 and 60 across Nigeria in its franchise plan.
Speaking during a press briefing to officially announce the franchise plan, head of business development and marketing in the company, Ezinne Njoku stated that the reason for the franchise was to create 1000 job opportunities and also help reduce poverty in the country.
Njoku stated that the reason for wanting to empower women was that when a women are empowered, the whole nation are also empowered adding that the company will support the potential franchisees with access to finance and other tools to make them succeed.
Also speaking during the briefing, the Franchise manager of the company, Odior Okaka explained that the photography company which has 15 outlets in seven states in Nigeria would also have a retail photographic studio in Africa that will be situated in Lagos.
Source: Radio Dabanga
Khartoum — Sudanese entrepreneur Awadeya Mahmoud has been awarded the 2016 Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award, the US Embassy in Khartoum has announced.
Source: Angola Press
Saurimo — The governor of northeastern Lunda Sul province, Cândida Narciso, recognised Thursday in Saurimo that the farming fair shows how women can contribute to increase production and improve the country's economic capacity.
Source: Daily Trust
The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has called on all stakeholders to take proactive measures to address cultural values and norms that support and tolerate sexual assault in the country.
Source: Government of Ghana
The inaugural conference of the International Federation of Women Accountants (IFWA) has ended in Accra.
Source: UN News Centre
The United Nations human rights chief today described the latest reports of sexual exploitation and abuse in the Central African Republic as “sickening,” calling for a thorough investigation into alleged conducts by UN and French troops, as well as local armed groups.
Source: IPS
Angelina Chiziane starts her day by getting her husband ready for work in a small village in the southern province of Gaza, Mozambique, some 216 kilometers away from the capital, Maputo.
Source: News Ghana
Ms Bernice Sam, a lawyer and gender advocate, touched by dwindling women’s reproductive rights and high maternal deaths largely caused by socio-cultural and religious factors, has called for ‘new paradigm shift’ to safeguard mothers’ rights.
Source: Yahoo News
African Union Commission chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will not run for a second term in office of the 54-member bloc, her spokesman said Friday, and will leave the post in July.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Twenty soldiers from Democratic Republic of Congo went on trial this week for alleged rape and other crimes committed while serving as U.N. peacekeepers in neighbouring Central African Republic, the Congolese government said on Thursday.
Source: Women's eNews
More than a decade after the Rome Statute recognized rape as both a war crime and crime against humanity, the International Criminal Court delivered its first rape convictions against Jean-Pierre Bemba, the former vice president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC.
Source: Catholic News Agency
The Holy See paid homage to all women and girls who have selflessly served others in education, healthcare, and forming the youth and upheld the four Missionaries of Charity murdered in Yemen as an example of women with unwavering dedication to peace.
Source: Open Democracy
In a cynical ploy, conservative religious groups based in the Global North now frame reproductive rights advocacy in the Global South as the neocolonialist imposition of a uniquely western value system.
Source: Standard Media
Africa has made progress towards democracy, respect for the rule of law and human rights.
There is now greater knowledge and understanding of human rights resulting in increase in demand for accountability when violations occur.
Across the continent, countries have set up institutional and legislative frameworks for the entrenchment of good governance and democratic ideals; a clear demonstration of tolerance for pluralism.
Regional accountability mechanisms aimed at addressing Africa’s unique concerns and realities are now in place.