Source: Zambia Daily Mail
Kitwe government has disbursed K200,000 empowerment funds to five women groups in Chililabombwe, district commissioner Stuart Chitumbo has said.
Source: UN News Centre
A major new report released today in seven locations around the world by the United Nations entity for gender equality and women's empowerment (UN Women) calls for the transformation of economies to make women's rights and equality a reality.
Source: The Star
Women legislators have launched a book on the improvement of girls' welfare.
Source: Radio Dabanga
UN Women in Sudan launched two women-operated bakeries in North Darfur on Sunday. The ceremony marked the successful conclusion of a months-long programme designed to provide women living in the camps for the displaced with the means to earn a living in a safe environment.
Source: New Vision
Organizations of women living with HIV and women's rights organizations in Uganda are not adequately accessing funding although billions of Ugandan shillings were spent on HIV and Aids in previous years.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Tanzania has warned its public officials that using positions of power to extort sexual favours from women will no longer be tolerated after nearly nine in every 10 women in the public sector were estimated to have been sexually harassed.
Source: Malawi News Agency
LandNet Malawi says land grabbing from widows and widowers will be a thing of the past once Malawi Parliament passes the new Customary Land Bill into law.
Source: Leadership
The hope that the 2015 governorship election will produce the first female elected governor in the country has appeared forlorn as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Architect Darius Ishaku was coasting home to victory in the early stages of result collation in the state.
Source: Foroyaa
The lack of safety and protection of women human rights defenders in Africa was one of the topics under discussion at the recently concluded NGOs Forum held in Banjul.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
OPHIR Energy, an oil and gas exploration company operating in Mtwara Region has donated 16m/- to Benedictine Sisters' Shangani Dispensary.
Source: Mail&Guardian
Four years ago today, 24-year-old Noxolo Nogwaza was raped and murdered in KwaThema, Ekurhuleni.
Source: UN News
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged faith leaders gathered in the General Assembly to stand up for the collective good and amplify their voices in support of moderation and mutual understanding, warning that he fears an "empathy gap" is causing people to turn their eyes from injustice and numbing them to atrocities.
Source: ForeignPolicy
Last week, the G20 formally established the W20, or Women20, a new initiative to promote gender inclusive growth.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
BLOG and social media owners have been urged to use their forums in pushing the gender agenda by bringing changes to various issues that have been affecting women.
Source: Mail&Guardian
Across Africa in recent years, cycles of xenophobia, ethnic hatred and homophobia have sometimes degenerated into deadly spasms of violence.
Source: All Africa
This is the 12th in a series of articles marking regional progress on gender equality and women's empowerment. This reflective piece introduces the Beijing Platform for Action for analysis. A few weeks ago, in a meeting to reflect on the past 20 years since the Beijing 4th World Conference on Women in 1995, one participant brought up the subject of who had attended.
Source: IT Web Africa
Rwanda's Minister of Youth and ICT, Jean Philbert Nsengimana has called on girls to study towards a career in ICT as a means to acquire skills and tackle unemployment.
Source: Concord Times
The National Secretariat for the Reduction of Teenage Pregnancy in Sierra Leone will this week launch a new campaign to discourage the practice of pupils and students trading sex for grades in schools and tertiary institutions across the country.
Source: Reuters
Since its founding 70 years ago, the United Nations has been led by men, a tradition that some women's rights advocates are determined to break when the global body elects a new secretary-general next year.
Source: Human Rights Watch
At least 42 Muslim Peuhl herders, mostly women and girls, are being held captive by anti-balaka fighters in the Central African Republic and are at risk of sexual violence, Human Rights Watch said today.