Source: Daily Trust
Supporting women-led enterprises is a huge opportunity, as the World Economic Forum (WEF) has consistently found a strong correlation between gender equality and national competitiveness.
Source: Daily Nation
A Moroccan woman may have founded the first university in the world that still exists today in 859 AD in Fez, Morocco, but less than a third of researchers in Africa are women, according to data from UNESCO.
Source: The Herald
Women's football has been overshadowed by the men's game for the last century, but could gain momentum once it gets a financial boost and recognition from stakeholders keen on developing female sport in this cutthroat world.
Source: Los Angeles Times
The stark paleness of her skin and myths about albinos being tied to witchcraft made 17-year-old Bibiana Mashamba a subject of suspicion in her isolated African village.
Source: The Herald
LEGAL drafters from Sadc member states have approved the draft Model Law on Eradicating Child Marriage and Protecting Children Already in Marriage, setting the stage for its final adoption by the Plenary Assembly of the Sadc Parliamentary Forum.
Source: VOA Zimbabwe
A member of the Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai, who is was part of a delegation of Zimbabwean women in New York attending the annual Commission on the Status of Women conference, says there is an urgent need to align some laws that protect women and girl rights with the country’s new constitution.
Source: NDTV
Sudan's security forces have used sexual violence and intimidation to stop female activists from protesting and carrying out human rights campaigns, Human Rights Watch said today.
Source: Daily Maverick
In March each year the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), a global intergovernmental body of the UN Economic and Social Council, meets in New York to review the progress of women's rights globally. The planning and review sessions are attended by representatives of UN states and civil society who arrive at joint conclusions about the nature and scope of future commitment to gender-related concerns.
Source: BizJournals
The University of Washington received a $250,000 grant this week to continue a project that allows pregnant women in remote Africa to access health care through text message.
Dr. Jennifer Unger, an assistant professor at UW, has been working on this mobile health care technology since 2012. She is the primary investigator on the Mobile WACh program, which is named for the UW’s Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents and Children.
Source: PressTV
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Sudanese security forces have used sexual violence and intimidation to silence female rights campaigners.
Source: Graphic Online
The African Union (AU) Ministers of Gender and Women Affairs have held a consultation meeting at the African Union Hall of the AU Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations in New York to discuss various issues related to the priorities of women, gender and development 2016 and beyond.
Source: BBC
Somalia's prime minister has publicly backed a campaign to ban female genital mutilation (FGM) in his country.
Source: The Guardian
Sakina Saidi wakes with a sense of trepidation in her father’s home in Gatumba, western Burundi.
Source: Vanguard
She may be a big global oil player today with hands in various big pies, but chancellor of Osun State University and Chairman Rose of Sharon Foundation, Folorunsho Alakija was herself a victim of gender discrimination and child abuse, as she revealed in her speech as she accepted an honorary Doctorate- her 5th- from the same University recently.
Source: Daily Maverick
The Coalition of Lesbians (CAL) is lobbying for South Africa not to side with the Africa Group's conservative position on a broad range of sexual, reproductive and health rights and human rights issues being negotiated at the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the UN headquarters in New York which ends on Thursday. By MARIANNE THAMM.
Source: Huffington Post
Last week, Mashable published a video from an organization called Cordaid that follows a pregnant woman on her way to a maternity clinic in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Source:The Telegraph
A number of MPs are calling for an end to the “abhorrent practice” of breast ironing in the UK.
Source: Naija
In the past few weeks, one of the most important topics that has dominated the discourse among Nigerians is the unsuccessful passage of The Bill For An Act To Incorporate and Enforce Certain Provisions of The United Nations Convention On The Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women – the protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, and Other Matters Connected Therewith for second reading.
Source: EuroNews
This year’s Crans Montana Forum in Dakhla in Western Sahara continues the open and constructive dialogue between senior players in global politics, economics and aims to consolidate what’s been achieved in 2015 ahead of COP 22 climate change talks in Marrakech in November.
Source: UN Women
At the United Nations Headquarters’ in New York, during a packed side event of the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, UN Women today launched an innovative partnership with leading media houses to galvanize attention and concrete action towards the 2030 Agenda. The Step it Up for Gender Equality Media Compact brings together a broad coalition of media outlets from every region who work in print, broadcast and online news media to ensure wide reach and robust efforts towards women’s rights and gender equality.