Source: GNN Liberia
Johannesburg, South Africa - Continuing with official activities in Johannesburg, South Africa ahead of the 25th African Union Summit, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has met with some actors and stakeholders promoting women empowerment on the African continent.
Source: allAfrica
President Uhuru Kenyatta has affirmed his government's commitment to gender quality and women's empowerment.He said the government's affirmative agenda is premised on the genuine conviction that empowering women are key to the development of the nation. President Kenyatta said measures have been instituted to ensure women's equal access and full participation in power structures and decision-making.
Source: UN Women
Linda, from Malawi, was married at the age of 12 and had a child at the age of 13. "I now have a child but I still need an education," she said, asking governments to provide schooling and education opportunities to girls in the same situation. She spoke at the Civil Society Consultative Dialogue on Ending
Source: Front Page Africa
The 25th Summit of Heads of States and Government of the African Union (AU) opened in Johannesburg, South Africa on Sunday, June 14, 2015 with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in attendance.
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South Africa's first national HIV stigma survey has found that 7 percent of HIV-positive women surveyed reported being sterilised against their will.
About 40 percent said contraception use had been a pre-requisite to accessing antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, contrary to national policy.
Source: Daily Monitor
Netherland based organisation has opened its first office in Africa (Uganda) to educate students on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
Speaking at the opening of the offices in Lubowa on Thursday, Ms Dianda Veldman the Rutgers executive director said they chose Uganda because of its fast
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The recipients of the African Union (AU) Diaspora Africa Forum women's awards, leaders and continental legends such as Graca Machel, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Joyce Banda, have dedicated their awards to women across Africa.
Source: AfricaRenewal
At this year's annual summit of the African Union, attending leaders declared 2015 the Year of Women's Empowerment in acknowledgement of the increasing role women are playing in Africa's development. The declaration comes as the continent prepares to kick-start the implementation of its 50-year development plan that was launched in 2013.
Source: The Africa Report
The number of seats held by women in various parliaments around Africa is inching upwards. A few weeks after she was sworn in as Malawi's first female president, Joyce Banda travelled to Liberia in late April 2012 to meet President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who has occupied Liberia's highest office since January 2006. Glowing in African attire, both leaders bantered like sisters during a press conference.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Improving access to education, healthcare and jobs for women in the arid Sahel region of Africa could play an important part in rolling back poverty in one of the world's most underdeveloped areas, the U.N. special envoy to the region said.
Source: UN Women Over 900 government representatives of UN Member States, experts, academics, and members of international, civil society and private sector organizations from more than 100 countries gathered in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, from 9-10 June to review the Implementation of the International Decade for Action "Water For Life" (2005-2015), a global initiative for international cooperation in water management launched by the Government of Tajikistan 10 years ago.
Source: Shanghai Daily
The chief of the United Nations women's agency on Sunday said the agency is partnering China to raise the gender-sensitiveness of infrastructure investors in regions where women's welfare lack sufficient protection.
The Global Alliance of Mayors and Leaders from Africa and the Diaspora, have called on governments to increase their investment in women’s education to encourage their participation in decision making processes at the grassroots level.
The 25th African Union Summit is expected to take decisions that will take issues of gender equality and women's empowerment to new heights, says Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women, Susan Shabangu.
Source: Sierra Leone Times
Despite considerable advances made in the global response to the AIDS epidemic over the last several decades, young women and adolescent girls in Africa "are still being left behind," according to a new joint report from the United Nations and the African Union.
For many years women have feared to contest in elections. That comes due to various reasons which hinder back their courage.
A campaign aimed at refocusing the developmental agenda so that women and girls take centre stage was launched at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa in Cape Town on Thursday.
During the early days of the revolution against President Hosni Mubarak, a sense of shared purpose and community made Tahrir Square feel like the safest place in Cairo, for women and men. But that collapsed almost the moment Mr. Mubarak left office, on Feb. 11, 2011. Sexual assault and the harassment of women in public, an epidemic problem in Egypt for decades, became alarmingly common again.
While African women have made considerable gains in the political, economic and social development of the continent, some say they are still widely marginalized within government.
The exclusion of Africa’s women from its boardrooms starts right from school, and reversing this would require radically changing society, the World Economic Forum on Africa heard Thursday.