Source: This Day Live
Edo State Government, in conjunction with Edo Women's Development Initiative (EWDI), have decried all forms of violence against women.
They were also unanimous that there was need to intensify campaigns to stop violence against women irrespective of cultural barriers and other factors that have tended to promote gender violence. According to both parties, violence against women has in no small way created inequality among the people.
Two radio soap operas designed to increase knowledge around family planning, HIV/AIDS, adolescent reproductive health, women's education, and gender-based violence have hit the airwaves.
Source: Daily Graphic
The University of Sussex in the United Kingdom has conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on Prof. Takyiwaa Manuh, Director of the Social Development Policy programme of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), at its graduation ceremony held on July 14, 2015.
Source: Global Voices
When artist Chama Fumba, better known by his stage name Pilato musically lampooned Zambia's President Edgar Lungu in May, another artist saw a vital opportunity, replying with a song passionately defending the need to respect the head of state.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
After her husband died in 2011, Theresa Matanda looked for a job in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, but with no success despite being a qualified accountant.
With two young children to support, Matanda, 36, was pushed to join the swelling ranks of Zimbabwean women risking rape, robbery and death as cross-
Source: Inter Press Service
Her lips are quavering her hands trembling. Susan (not her real name) struggles to suppress stubborn tears, but the outburst comes, spontaneously, and the tears stream down her cheeks as she sobs profusely.
Source: Open Democracy
Despite the popular euphemism "female circumcision", female genital mutilation (FGM) is widely acknowledged as being an extremely harmful—and sometimes life threatening—practice. But because of social, cultural and religious reasons, the challenges to ending this custom are significant. According to
Source: Swazi Observer
In an effort to economically empower women by strengthening their entrepreneurial skills, the Business Women’s Forum of Swaziland (BWFS) will be hosting a consultative meeting to be held at Sibane Hotel.
Source: Times Higher Education
Women in higher education leadership roles in Africa have described their gender as an extra job they must perform on top of their role as an academic, according to new research.
Source: Leadership
Two radio dramas aimed at increasing knowledge on family planning, HIV/AIDS, adolescent reproductive health, women's education, and gender-based violence, will soon hit the Nigerian airwaves.
Souce: Inter Press Service
Ten women are gathered to discuss how to transmit Sahrawi culture and tradition to the younger generations. As usual, it´s a secret meeting. There is no other way in the capital of Western Sahara.
Source: Huffington Post
It is well known that women are more likely to invest in their communities than men, and that a developing country that invests in women advances quicker and further. What is amazing is to see this phenomena occur in a society.
Source:allAfrica
Southern African parliamentarians have endorsed a call to end child marriage in sub-Saharan countries at the 37th Plenary Assembly of the SADC Parliamentary Forum, which ended in Cape Town on Saturday.
Source: allAfrica
African women are demanding more effective gender financing in the ongoing 3rd International Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa.
Source: Swazi Observer
Recognising National, Regional and International laws on gender equality that Swaziland has promulgated and ratified such as the Constitution of the Kingdom of Swaziland, (2005), Gender Policy (2010) Southern African Development Community on Development and Gender (2008), Protocol to the African
Source: Open Democracy
The third Financing for Development conference currently underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, provides a historic opportunity to insist on financing that is gender-responsive and fit to deliver on both long-established and newly won commitments on women's rights. In order to deliver on the ambitious agenda for
Africa must eradicate practices that inhibit the full development of women so they can participate in decision-making processes that affect their lives, a panel of five Mandela Washington Fellows told the U.S. Congress on Thursday.
Source: Democracy Now
From 3-5 July 2015, the Royal African Society held the annual Africa Writes festival at the British Library. A series of talks, themed discussions, keynotes and Q&A sessions, intermingled with performances and book-browsing, the festival was a celebration of creativity as well as a guided discovery of current
Source: The Star
UN HIV-Aids wants to be enjoined in a case challenging forced sterilisation of a woman living with HIV.
In court documents, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV-Aids secretari says the case concerns a subject at the core of UNAids' mandate.
Source: Amnesty International
The Public Order Police (POP) arrested 12 female Christian students on 25 June. Ten of them were charged with "indecent dress", under Article 152 of Sudan's 1991 Criminal Act, while the other two were released. The POP subjected the students to degrading treatment and humiliating verbal abuse during their