Source: Reuters
Casablanca — Every day hundreds of Moroccan women and girls put their lives at risk by seeking backstreet abortions or trying to end unwanted pregnancies themselves with needles and poison.
Source: The Point
Another female has defied the odds and the traditions in The Gambia by venturing into the male dominant area of commercial taxi driving.
Source: Daily Trust
A very high percentage of women are carried away with the excitement of starting a new business rather than getting information on how to make the business a household name and stand the test of time.
Source: TheGuardian
At least 100 women were brutally attacked in the South Kivu province of Congo last week – yet another atrocity amid more than a decade of sexual violence that has earned the region the title "rape capital of the world".
Source: The Ethiopian Herald
Women election participation in the country's political landscape is said to be significantly growing day by day.
Source: The New Republic Liberia
Journalists in Liberia have mandated the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) to work with all media institutions in the country to ensure access and apply gender media policy.
Source: News24Wire
Zimbabwe has the highest condom usage in the world and this has contributed to a reduction in HIV infections, the state-run National Aids Council (NAC) has revealed.
Source:All Africa
The Network against Gender Based Violence (NGBV), a women's rights organisation, recently held a three-day training workshop for young women from various youth groups geared towards building their leadership and advocacy skills.
Source:All Africa
A high-level review of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution 1325, expected to be released in October this year, provides an opportunity for policymakers to move beyond the rhetoric of gender mainstreaming and start putting words into practice. Resolution 1325 underlines the need for gender-sensitive approaches to peace and stability in post-conflict contexts.
Source: Think Progress
Hilda Tadria got to work early on educating women. She was just a schoolgirl when she began tutoring women twice her age in proper hygiene and literacy skills. Despite decades of experience, however, she’s still sometimes shocked by how deeply gender inequality is embedded in her native Uganda.
Source: All Africa
Voicing concern over the continued killing of women and girls, the United Nations anti-crime chief today issued a strong call to end such acts, as well as to unravel the gender at the heart of the "dreadful daily experiences of violence" that blight so many of their lives.
Source: All Africa
The South African Defence Force (SANDF) has met its gender equity target of having a representation of 30 percent of women in the force.
Source: All Africa
EMPOWERMENT women economically boosts both gender equality and wealth of nations.
Source: The Herald
As Africa Day on May 25 beckons, the continent has committed to making gender equality and women's empowerment central to its development Agenda 2063. This will see the AU not addressing gender as a separate issue but integrating it across its various sectors.
Source: Humanosphere
One of the international community’s primary anti-poverty and pro-equity goals has been to increase the proportion of children receiving education, starting with ensuring all children at least get a primary education.
Source: Telegraph
Zakhe, 28, lives in Soweto in Johannesburg. She is a lesbian and a victim of a horrifying growing trend in South Africa: corrective rape. "They tell me that they will kill me, they will rape me and after raping me, I will become a girl," she tells ActionAid. "I will become a straight girl."
Source: UN News Centre
Almost two years since the eruption of the conflict in South Sudan, the situation continues to deteriorate with women and small children making up the majority of most recent casualties, a representative from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in the country said today.
Source: Reuters Africa
Child marriage should be seen as a form of modern slavery and is tantamount to sanctioning child rape, the African Union's goodwill ambassador said at a conference on ending the practice.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail
Kitwe GOVERNMENT has released K220,000 for the empowerment of 20 women's clubs in Kitwe, district commissioner Chanda Kabwe has said.