Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Pakistani teenager and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday told Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped a year ago by Boko Haram militants they will never be forgotten and to never lose hope.
Source: Zimbabwe Independent
FORMER vice-president Joice Mujuru and her allies in and outside Zanu PF have seriously begun a process of organising a new political platform to challenge Zanu PF in the 2018 general elections.
Source: ANGOP
The efforts of the Angolan government, in 13 years of peace prevailing in the country, have empowered the women's emancipation, said on Sunday in Bailundo municipality, central Huambo province, the minister of Family and Women Promotion, Maria Filomena Delgado.
Source: Premium Times
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Saturday's governorship election in Taraba state inconclusive.
Source: International Business Times
In the middle of 54,000 runners at 12 April's Paris Marathon, Siabatou Sanneh stood out. Carrying a 20kg water container on her head and wearing her race number 64173 on top of a multi-coloured traditional dress, Siabatou wanted to make a statement.
Source: Quartz
The leader of South Africa's main opposition party is stepping down. On Apr. 12, Helen Zille, 64, announced she will not be seeking reelection at the May 2015 congress of the Democratic Alliance (DA), though she will retain her position as premier of Western Cape province through Dec. 2019.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
YOUTH and women in Kilimanjaro region have been assured of getting 10 per cent of every district council's revenue for their development activities.
Source: The Guardian
Justice has finally been served for a 16-year-old girl who was gang-raped and left for dead in Kenya's Busia county in June 2013.
Source: Horseed Media
Since the collapse of the central government in 1991, Somalia has suffered from civil-war, widespread famine, broken infrastructure, rampant human, women, and civil rights abuses, poverty, human trafficking, rape, murder and corruption on every level of the society.
Source: AllAfrica
Zimbabwe's Ministry of Health is currently gathering evidence on acceptance of a new Cupid Female Condom before rolling it out.
Source: AllAfrica
EAST African Community (EAC) Secretariat in collaboration with GIZ plan to conduct sensitization workshop in Mtukula and Sirari borders between April 16 and 17 and 23 and 24 respectively to strengthen communication and sensitization of the community achievements and popularizing integration benefits.
Source: AWID
It's been one year since the abduction by Boko Haram of 276 female students from their boarding school in Chibok, Borno State in northeastern Nigeria.
Source: International Business Times
Most countries in the world have failed to achieve the "Education for All" (EFA) targets set by the United Nations in 2000, with only half the countries achieving universal primary school enrolment, according to a report released by Unesco on Thursday.
Source: The Ethiopian Herald
Scholars argue that though democratic and participatory election immensely benefits all, it affords women the cream of the cake.
Source: UN News
Libyan women have a crucial role to play in resolving the crisis in their country, a senior United Nations official said in an address to 250 Libyan women gathered in Tripoli, at a dialogue aimed at including women from all walks of life in the political process.
"We count on Libya women, who were active during the 17 February revolution, to continue to advocate for peaceful solution ... We count on you to spread the culture of peace in your communities and to talk and engage with all who have a role to play in brining stability to Libya," said Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, Bernardino León, via Skype on Saturday.
About 250 Libyan women, who gathered in the capital Tripoli, listen to a briefing by Special Representative and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Bernardino León. Photo: UNSMIL
Mr. León briefed the audience about the progress of the ongoing political dialogue and answered questions regarding the ceasefire, timeframe for agreement and addressed concerns about spoilers seeking to derail the process.
He also stressed that efforts to bring peace to Libya must continue regardless of the obstacles, adding that quick solutions were necessary due to the humanitarian and economic difficulties the country is facing and the increasing terrorist attacks by Daesh also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Libyans, particularly women, have paid and continue to pay a high price in the North African country's armed conflict, said Mr. León, adding that the role of women in pushing for the dialogue process is crucial, as it is also crucial in ensuring the implementation of any political agreement resulting from these talks. Women must get involved in talks at the municipality and tribal level.
"Women have a very important role in following up on the political process and in participating in the new unity government," the Special Representative said, adding that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed the importance of women's participation in the transitional process.
The dialogue was facilitated by the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) in collaboration with various Libyan women groups. Mr. Leon acknowledged the role of the two women participants in the political dialogue, Ms. Nehad Meiteeg and Ms. Naima Jebril, for their efforts to reconcile the differences among the other participants.
More specifically, he commended their communication with and briefings to civil society and women's groups at gatherings in Tunisia and Jordan in recent weeks in support of the dialogue were of tremendous importance.
Source:All Africa
As a daughter she is usually not permitted to manage or inherit family land. The family expects her to move into her husband's family land after marriage. As a wife she is generally not allowed to control, much less inherit her husband's land- it belongs to the husband's family and cannot be passed on to strangers.
Source: All Africa
This is the eleventh in a series of articles analysing regional progress on gender equality and women's empowerment. The SADC Gender Protocol Alliance has merged an earlier campaign for an addendum on gender and climate change to the SADC Gender Protocol (SGP) within the broader campaign for a strong post-2015 SGP.
Source:Swazi Observer
Gains women have made in national decision-making rank amongst the highest in the world, while traditionalism seeking to constrain women has been on the rise on the ground too.
Source:IPS News
The statistics tell the story: in some parts of the world, four times as many women as men die during floods; in some instances women are 14 times more likely to die during natural disasters than men.
Source: The News Monrovia
Delegates at the just ended National Constitutional Conference on the review of the 1986 Constitution in Gbarnga, Bong County, voted for the Constitution to guarantee inheritance rights for traditional women.