Source: VOA
Cameroonian-born Professor Rose Gana Fomban Leke, winner of the 2011 Kwame Nkrumah Award for the best female scientist in Africa, is being celebrated in Cameroon for advancing research on malaria.
Source: EWN
African women are standing up against the xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
In Kenya, women's group Femnet says Africans shouldn't be labelled as foreigners on their own continent, as that too brings with it negative attitudes.
The Pan-African organisation has members from 42 countries in Africa, including South Africa.
The Pan-African organisation has members from 42 countries in Africa, including South Africa. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN.
Spokesperson Nabila Abdulmalik says it's shocked by what happened and believes it's time to work together, now more than ever, in understanding our differences.
"I am shocked to hear Africans being labelled foreigners on their own continent; perhaps we can label them as non-South Africans."
Femnet has joined many others who condemn xenophobia but its main focus is educating Africans on the cause of inequalities that it believes seems to trigger these incidents.
Source: NoozHawk
A Somali-born women's rights activist and free speech champion who has been a high-profile and vocal critic of Islam will be in Santa Barbara next month to talk about her new book.
Source: RFI
Women bear the brunt of most conflict, says UN Special Representative for the Secretary-General on Women in Conflict Zainab Hawa Bangura, on the release of her report on sexual violence in conflict that looks at 19 countries, mainly in Africa. But if women are treated badly during peacetime, do not expect them to fare any better during war, she told RFI.
Source: HRW
A new Malawi law that sets 18 as the minimum age for marriage is an important step toward preventing child marriage, Human Rights Watch said today.
Source: The Herald
Representation of women at the top in business in Zimbabwe has gone up over the years following the implementation of economic empowerment vehicles that encourage and support women's participation in the economy.
Source: The Guardian
This week, ministers and women's rights activists convened in New York for the annual Commission on Population and Development, which assesses progress against agreements made at a conference in Cairo in 1994.
Source: MoroccoWorldNews
Child marriage is a cultural tradition that still exists in Morocco and in many other developing countries in Latin America, Africa, South, East and West Asia.
Source: SAI
Combating gender-based violence was a key theme raised by African countries at the March 2015 session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Source: Trust
A rising number of attacks on elderly women in Tanzania accused of witchcraft has prompted the launch of a campaign to protect older women in the impoverished east African nation.
Source: Open Democracy
A poem by the Somali writer Dahabo Ali Muse expresses the pain caused by female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice endured by more than 140 million girls and women in the world:
Source:International Business Times
As the number of Ebola cases continues to shrink in West Africa, the affected countries are starting to get their already struggling economies back on track. The largest-ever Ebola outbreak, which killed more than 10,000 people in the region, had a major effect on those economies.
Source:Swazi Observer
Whatever the level and incidence amongst African women in pre-colonial societies of autonomy, power, or authority with an economic basis or a political presence, the colonial state and the capitalist penetration of kin based modes of production changed what was there.
Source: Ein NewsDesk
Thank you, Madame Chair. I’d like to begin by expressing my delegation’s appreciation to the CPD 48 bureau, the UN Population Division, and UNFPA for their efforts to prepare us for this year’s Commission. The Secretary General’s reports clearly show the central role that population dynamics play in sustainable development and will certainly inform our deliberations this week as well as our ongoing discussions on the post-2015 development framework.
Source: RFI
Women bear the brunt of most conflict, says UN Special Representative for the Secretary-General on Women in Conflict Zainab Hawa Bangura, on the release of her report on sexual violence in conflict that looks at 19 countries, mainly in Africa.
Source: The Herald
The importance of gender equality and empowerment of women was not given full recognition before independence, but through sustained lobbying from empowerment advocates, women are now active participants in the mainstream economy.
Source: UN News
As the great moral issue of our time, sexual violence in conflict is used to terrorise, displace and subjugate victims, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue told the Security Council today, urging the body to take action to deal with this growing threat.
Source: UN News
Tennis legend and gender equality activist Billie Jean King has had a stellar career in sports, identifying the boundaries that divide people and tearing them down.
Source: The Ethiopian Herald
Historically as many other disciplines, characteristics associated with "manliness" have been valued in the conduct of international politics have only been largely occupied by men. The traditionally male domain existing power structures within the diplomatic infrastructure did not allow women to exercise diplomatic practices in different parts of the world.
Source:All Africa
Those who use rape as a weapon of war are becoming increasingly "brutal and ruthless," the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) on Sexual Violence in conflict said today, warning against a lax attitude that would allow emerging armed groups to gain further ground and continue committing such atrocious crimes.