Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The mother of a 15-year-old rape survivor, who needs a kidney transplant following a botched backstreet abortion, filed a case against Kenya's government on Monday for denying women and girls safe access to terminations.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The United Nations accused South Sudan's government forces and its allies on Tuesday of sexually abusing women and girls and reportedly burning some alive in their homes during recent fighting in the conflict-torn nation.
Source: allAfrica
The new commissioner of the Electoral Commission Charlotte Osei has been sworn in by President Mahama at a short ceremony at the Flagstaff House Tuesday.
Source:allAfrica
A senior government official has urged the women of Zimbabwe to take a firm stand in the promotion of gender equality.
Source: allAfrica
The South African Gender Protocol@Work Summit got off to a sobering start yesterday when participants presented the work they are doing in their organisations and communities to help fight gender based violence (GBV).
Source: takepart
Growing up in Senegal's capital of Dakar, Dieynaba Sidibe loved painting and often used her pocket money to buy art supplies.
Source: Huffington Post
Deep inside the sprawling HEAL Africa Hospital complex in the Eastern Congolese city of Goma is a small ward where women recover from injuries they suffered during complicated births and violent sexual attacks. When I entered, I first saw Muwakeso, a fragile-looking elderly woman sitting on a chair next to
Source: Al Jazeera
The last camp in South Africa hosting displaced foreigners following a series of xenophobic attacks across the country in April, is scheduled to close on Tuesday, officials from the municipality where it is located have told Al Jazeera.
Source: Ghana Web
The Ghana Chapter of the Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA), in collaboration with the Ghana AIDS Commission and UT Foundation, on Friday organised a free health screening exercise for the people of Gbawe and its surrounding areas in Accra.
Source: Ghana Web
The Campaign for Female Education (Camfed) Ghana has applauded the West African Examination Council's (WAEC) bold decision to cancel some leaked papers of the just-ended Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
Source: Morocco World News
Several Moroccan women turned out for the protest against the arrest of two women in Inezgane, a suburb of the southern city of Agadir. The two women were arrested “gross indecency” for wearing “tight and immoral” clothes.
Source: Daily News Egypt
Several advertisements and programmes aired in Ramadan are believed to be "promoting sexual harassment and domestic violence", according to the Cairo Centre for Development (CCD), a non-government organisation (NGO) working in development and human rights.
Source: StarAfrica
As world leaders prepare to gather later this month in Ethiopia to chart the future of financing for global development, researchers are showing how investments in women's health and education can have a critical and enduring impact on the well-being of women and children, and by extension, households and communities.
Source:The Cougar
Equal pay, reproductive rights, health care and equal opportunity are just a few things that women's rights activists strive to bring attention to and change.
That same fight hit a milestone May 5 when Nigeria passed a law banning female genital mutilation, or FGM, "which involves removing part or all of a girl's outer sexual organs," according to The Guardian.
Source: allAfrica
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC), Legal Assistance Centre (LAC), Namibia Women's Health Network (NWHN), Women's Leadership Centre (WLC) and the Southern Africa Christian Initiative (SACHI) have commended Namibia for positive developments in the area of human rights since 2011, while at the same time calling on authorities to strengthen their efforts towards the protection and promotion of human rights in the country.
Men in Nigeria have joined in speaking up against various forms of violence against women and girls around the globe.
Source: Forbes
"UNFPA Kenya is working hard with all partners to support the Government of Kenya and the First Lady of Kenya's clarion call, 'no woman should die giving life,'" explains UNFPA Representative to Kenya, Siddharth (Sid) Chatterjee.
Source: The Guardian
The decision to continue the school ban on pregnant girls in Sierra Leone could soon be reversed as the government inches towards an agreement with international agencies.
Source: Daily News Egypt
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) released Tuesday a statement commenting on the cabinet's national strategy for combating violence against women, which was announced in April.
Source: Reuters
United Nations peacekeepers have been accused of sexually abusing street children in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui and an investigation has been launched by the country that contributed the troops, a U.N. spokesman said on Tuesday.