Source: IOL News
Durban - King Goodwill Zwelithini has taken aim at the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act for disempowering polygamist men from taking additional wives without getting written consent from their existing wives.
Source: Star Africa
A UK-based charity – the Iranian & Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation (IKWRO), on Friday opened the first specialist refuge for Middle Eastern and North African women. Diana Nammi, Executive Director of IKWRO said the refuge will accommodate and support vulnerable single women at risk of honour based violence, forced marriage, female genital mutilation and domestic violence.
Source: The Sunday Independent
Coverage of the decision by the ANC Women's League (ANCWL) to postpone its elective conference regretfully fails to understand the role of internal party dynamics in reaching decisions.
Source:Medical Press
Young HIV positive women are more likely to practice safer sex if they have an equitable perception of gender roles, according to new research involving the University of Southampton.
Source: The Guardian
After years of absorbing negative stereotypes, many in the west equate Africa with suffering, disease and corruption. Yet while distinct water, food and energy challenges remain, 21st-century Africa is bustling with innovation and creativity.
Source:All Africa
The Department of Women's Director General, Jenny Schreiner, says women are still not getting involved in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines at a satisfactory rate.
Source: DailyStar
Spending cuts are hurting public and social services that give women the chance to find paid work, independence and a chance at equality, a U.N. report warned Monday.
Source: Mail&Guardian
The Coalition of African Lesbians has finally won a place on a platform where it can be heard.
Long battle: Promising to continue to demand, defy, resist and speak up, gay rights activists have achieved a nod from the African rights commission for maltreated sexual minorities.
Source:Tanzania Daily News
Zanzibar — WOMEN leaders from various political parties held a meeting in Zanzibar to encourage participation in elections as they called on the authorities to establish a level playing field for all the people.
Source:The Herald
For decades, African women have been active in agriculture, trade, and other economic pursuits. Amajority of them have remained in the informal labour force and always played a supporting role to their spouses. In other words, they carry the social burden; are guardians of their children's welfare and have explicit responsibility to provide for them materially.
Source:All Africa
Two years ago, in his 2013 State of the Nation Address (SONA), South Africa's President Jacob Zuma emphasised the need to improve the status of women in the country. He said that this was a priority for the government.
Source:All Africa
Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor says if women's talents were used in the fields of science, technology and innovation, the world would develop much more progressively.
Source:The Independant
The Nigerian army says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women from Boko Haram camps in the Sambisa forest.
Source: SpyGhana
Nana Oye Lithur, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has called for greater representation of women in decision-making, to bridge the gap of gender inequality.
Source: Times Live
The Democratic Alliance's (DA) Johannesburg caucus leader‚ Vasco Da Gama‚ has thrown his support behind Refiloe Nt'sekhe for the position of the party's deputy federal chairperson.
Source: BDlive
More than 5,000 Burundians fled to Rwanda at the weekend following mounting tensions in the central African country, bringing the number of arrivals this month to nearly 21,000, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.
Source: CNN
Girls rescued from Boko Haram terror camps in Sambisa Forest on Tuesday are "not the Chibok girls," Nigerian Army spokesman Sani Usman said.
Source: VOA
A young Kenyan activist is part of a fast-moving low cost-movement that is tackling the impact of global warming at the local level.
Source: StarAfrica
Lesotho's Minister of Sports Mathibeli Mokhothu on Tuesday launched Future Olympic Women Leaders' Development (FOWLD) programme in Maseru as part of empowering women through sports.
Source: Newsday
The chiefs made the call last Thursday during a workshop organised by the Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development ministry in partnership with Plan International attended by 35 traditional leaders drawn from Masvingo province.