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.
Choosing between ‘Libya Dawn’ and ‘Libya Dignity’ could lead to losing your life in Libya today, explained leading woman activist Alaa Murabit during her talk at the recent Oslo Freedom Forum.
It’s still a man’s world in African science. The marginalisation of women in science is not unique, though, to the continent. It is a pattern around the globe. It has been estimated that, on average, only 30% of science roles throughout the world are held by women.
Source: All Africa
Africa may stack up pretty well compared with the world's regions on having companies with female board members, but the continent has a distance to go to make sure its strong economic growth includes its most talented women at the top, according to the first-ever study of female board membership in Africa, unveiled during the World Economic Forum Africa, by the African Development Bank, commissioner of the study.
Source: Business Report
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.
Source:The Herald
Africa and the world seem to have learnt from the mistakes of the MDGs, if the approach to the SDGs is an indicator.
Source: All Africa
Women economic empowerment cannot be delayed anymore with women having an important role to play in the development of economies, says Public Enterprises Minister (DPE) Lynne Brown.
Source:The Herald
Sadc Gender and Women Affairs ministers have called for increased funding for gender programmes at both national and regional level to create equal opportunities for women and men.
Source: UN NEWS CENTRE
More open and constructive dialogues should be held among Sudanese stakeholders as a top priority to address 'the silence and the denials' of crimes against women, a United Nations human rights expert concluded after her recent mission to the country.
Source: Reuters
Morocco expelled two French women activists who bared their breasts and kissed each other outside an ancient mosque on Tuesday in a protest about gay rights in a country where homosexuality is illegal.
Source: Malawi24
Malawi's ex leader and first female President Joyce Banda is out of the list of 2015 Most Powerful Women in the World, a list she got recognition in during the time she was in power.
Source: The Star
First Lady Margaret Kenyatta has urged Meru county residents to shun retrogressive culture.
Source: Times Premium
Only six out of the 109 senators who will serve in the 8th National Assembly are women, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
Source: Leadership
Ondo State Police Command has arrested four students of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, for allegedly gang-raping a female student of the institution.
Source: The New Dawn
The Sweden Embassy near Monrovia and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality, and UN WOMEN have signed a six-month Gender Sector Support Program Preparatory Phase Project in Monrovia.