Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
When Sokhna Aminatou Sarr started menstruating, as a young girl in Senegal who had not yet reached her teenage years, her mother warned that she would become pregnant if she went near any boys.
Source: All Africa
The UNICEF Girl Education Project Phase 3 (GEP3) enrolment campaign seeks to enlist about one million girls in school in five northern states, the UNICEF Chief Field Officer in Katsina State, Shehu Mohammad, said yesterday.
Source: Ghana Web
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) says as the country reflects on the achievements of the past 15 years of the Millennium Development Goals and the planned Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the next 15, it is an opportune time to consider the importance of social, economic and political investment in the empowerment of adolescent girls.
Source: Un Women
Fifteen years ago, in October 2000, the United Nations Security Council adopted the historic resolution 1325 (2000), drawing attention to the differential impact of armed conflict on women, their exclusion from conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping and peacebuilding, and the inextricable links between gender equality and international peace and security.
Source: Leadership
The UN Women Executive Director, Ms Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, on Monday reiterated call for full participation of women at peace talks and negotiations.
She advocated that women should also be part of decision-makers in more inclusive processes.
Source: Graphic
The First Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama, has called on all stakeholders in the health sector to intensify their efforts and work together to address challenges associated with the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV and reproductive health needs of girls and mothers.
Source: All Africa
Many South African women are still resorting to unsafe abortions with illegal providers, often with disastrous implications even though safe legal abortion has been available since 1997.
Source: All Africa
Many girls in the developing world feel they are forced to skip school while they are menstruating. They don't have proper sanitary wear or don't have underwear to hold sanitary pads in place. The bathrooms at their schools are not clean or hygienic. They are also frightened that their school uniforms - which are often light in colour - will be stained.
Source: All Africa
Girls are more likely to be married off before their eighteenth birthday than enroll in secondary school in an "alarming" 26 countries, a global charity said on Friday.
Source: All Africa
The newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer an opportunity for a global commitment to breaking intergenerational transmission of poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination - and realizing our vision of a life of dignity for all, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon declared, marking the International Day of the Girl Child.
Source: SABC News
The 2015 ANC NGC made a few resolutions regarding the advancement of women in South Africa.
Source: All Africa
Human rights-based civil society organisations in Rwanda are contemplating challenging the Penal Code in the Supreme Court if what they see as restrictive clauses on abortion is not removed.
Source: All Africa
Scientists have come up with a new drug that could be more effective in preventing malaria in pregnant women, especially where there is resistance to current treatments.
Source: Liberian Observer
Two of Liberia's prominent women have joined some of Africa's highly influential women to inaugurate a new women's movement on the continent.
Source: Yahoo News
Less than half of the world's countries have equal numbers of girls and boys in school with not one sub-Saharan African nation achieving equality, according to a United Nations report released on Monday to mark International Day of the Girl Child.
Source: All Africa
TANZANIA is acknowledged for its commitment to amend the remaining discriminatory laws that hamper gender equality. The law of marriage and property and inheritance rights and the country's commitment to implement the principle of 50/50 is a bold step that will position the country well towards achieving gender equality and enhancing women's leadership.
Source: Liberian Observer
Two of Liberia's prominent women have joined some of Africa's highly influential women to inaugurate a new women's movement on the continent.
Source: Un Women
In 2000, the Security Council adopted the ground-breaking resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security — the first to link women's experiences of conflict to the international peace and security agenda. It focused on the disproportionate impact of conflict on women, and called for their engagement in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. In 2015, the Security Council will convene a High-level Review to assess progress at the global, regional and national levels in implementing the resolution.
Source: Channel News Asia
While the number of countries reaching equal numbers of boys and girls in primary and secondary education increased, sub-Saharan Africa has significant problems, according to a new UN report.
Source: GhanaWeb
The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), has organised a four-day conference on Women, Peace and Security to mark the 15th anniversary of the Adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325.