Source: All Africa Botswana remains committed to the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development's spirit and will continue to implement its provisions for gender equality and women's empowerment, the director of gender affairs department, Ms Thapelo Phuthego, has said.
Source: UN News Centre
As world leaders continued their Summit on the Sustainable Development Goals, UN Women and China co-hosted a landmark event today on gender equality and women’s empowerment at which Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared that the new Global Goals could not be achieved “without full and equal rights for half of the world’s population, in law and in practice.”
Top global companies and foundations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Unilever, are committing millions of dollars to promote gender equality as they gather at a United Nations event in New York.
The African Union Commission and HelpAge International have urged African states to develop and implement policies that protect the rights of the continent’s old citizens.
Addressing today a high-level gathering at United Nations Headquarters, the President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) declared that the empowerment of women and the full realization of their human rights are essential for achieving sustainable development and for building peaceful, just and inclusive societies.
In July, Megan Nobert publicly told her story of being drugged and raped by a fellow aid worker on a UN base in South Sudan.
It’s every employee’s responsibility to embrace transformation, says Vanessa Olver, Deputy CEO of Business Connexion.
United Nations officials are marking the annual World Breastfeeding Week by highlighting the vital importance of a practice that gives children the healthiest start in life and the need to strengthen policies to promote nursing with stronger workplace policies.
Source: Institute for Security Studies
Certain moments in time act as rallying points for particular issues. For gender equality, women's empowerment and women's participation, 2015 is one of those points.
The year marks the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, which produced 'the most progressive blueprint ever for advancing women's rights'.
Source: Graphic Online
Eleven distinguished Ghanaians including seven women have been awarded for their contributions towards the empowerment of African women.
The women, including former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings, were also awarded for continuously supporting efforts to promote women's rights, as well as the protection of the rights of the underprivileged in society.
Source: The New Dawn
Liberian International Movie Actor Frank Artus has warned Liberians against gender discrimination, especially against women. Artus said such discrimination was something that stops women from participating in national activities and discussing issues of national concern.
Source: Ghana Business News
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched a new report, “Economic Empowerment of African Women through Equitable Participation in Agricultural Value Chains” to economically empower women in agriculture.
Source: Daily Mail
First Lady Esther Lungu is concerned that many women in Zambia do not have access to antenatal care services.
Mrs Lungu said this is particularly so for those in rural areas as health facilities are far from their dwellings.
Source: Executive Mansion
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has reflected on the struggle of women across the globe that continues to prevent them from “shining” and praised Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for organizing the World Assembly for Women (WAW) and all that he continues to do to promote the advancement and empowerment of women both in Japan and other parts of the world.
Source: Mail&Guardian
The significance of 2015 continently and globally in the drive for women’s empowerment and the achievement of gender equality provides a useful backdrop to assess efforts to use mainstreaming as a tool to bring gender into the equation within peacekeeping and peace and security frameworks in Africa.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the United Nation’s (UN’s) Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, aimed at achieving greater equality and
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
It took less than a minute for a panel of judges in Senegal to sentence seven men to six months in prison for homosexuality last week, but campaigners say the harm to the African nation's anti-HIV efforts could last much longer.
Senegal, a Muslim country regarded as a pillar of democracy in turbulent West Africa, is one of about 30 African states with anti-homosexuality laws. Yet the country of
Source: Accord
Women's Month in South Africa gives us an opportunity to reflect on the efforts globally, and on the continent, to advance women's empowerment and gender equality. These efforts have borne fruit and are accelerating. In Africa the initiatives have reached Head of State level, driven by statistics such as the fact that women produce more than 80% of food in Africa but own only approximately 1% of productive lands. To advance their efforts, earlier this year the leaders of
Source: AWOKO
Hundreds of women from all works of life representing various groups in the fight against sexual violence joined "power women 232", last Thursday converged at Lumley Beach to remember the late Hannah Bockarie who was brutally murdered and left on the beach.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Yolanda Ngunda has every reason to smile now she holds a title deed recognising her as sole owner of a disputed plot of rugged farmland in Tanzania's remote southern highlands.
For the past decade, the 51-year-old widow, who lives in Ilalasimba village in the rural district of Iringa, was embroiled in a family feud as her brothers-in-law
Source: EurekAlert!
African women in polygamous marriages or with alcoholic husbands have a significantly higher risk of being physically abused by their husbands than women in monogamous marriages or women whose husbands don't abuse alcohol, new research shows.