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
Source: Global Voices
Three writers walked free in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on July 8 after spending 439 days behind bars on terrorism charges. Journalists Tesfalem Waldyes and Asmamaw Hailegiorgis and university philosophy professor Zelalem Kiberet, also a Global Voices translator, were arrested last April along with six other
Source: Tanzania Daily News
CCM on Sunday picked Minister of State in the Vice-President's Office (Union Affairs), Ms Samia Suluhu Hassan, running mate for the Union presidential candidate in the October general elections, making history for the first time to appoint a woman the potential Vice-President of the union government.
Source: The Guardian
Two Moroccan women accused of gross indecency for wearing short skirts in public have been acquitted of the charges, their lawyer has said.
Defence attorney Houcine Bekkar Sbai said on Monday: "This is a victory not only for these two women, but for all members of civil society who mobilised."
Source: Al Jazeera
Chadian police have said anyone wearing a full-face veil will be arrested, a day after a Boko Haram suicide bombing - carried out by an attacker disguised as a women wearing one - left 15 dead.
Source: Mail&Guardian
This month, when the Southern African Development Community parliamentary forum gathers in Durban for its 37th plenary, the focus will be on industrialisation and SADC regional integration, and the role of parliaments in this.
Source: allAfrica
The ANC Women's League seems to be focused on quotas and succession debates rather than working on the ground, SA Communist Party General Secretary Blade Nzimande said on Wednesday.