Source: The New Times
First Lady Jeannette Kagame has called for continued efforts toward women empowerment to achieve more financial inclusion and economic progress.
Source: The Guardian
Growing up in a village in north-eastern Tunisia, Ahlam Ben Ahmad had to walk up to 4km to reach a hospital, buy food or attend school. She often got sick from the long journey, and dropped out of school two years before graduation because of her long commute.
Source: Swazi Observer
The main objective of WWT is to create a transformative, inspirational and empowering social networking platform for women in Swaziland The initiative showcases women's talents, ideas and markets their businesses.
Source: News24
It was just 07:00 and Hoda was walking alone to a clinic in the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir. She skipped breakfast: the Senegalese doctor had told her that the abortion would be better done on an empty stomach.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
A blood-stained machete outside a mud-walled shack in a remote Tanzanian village is a reminder of how Pili Kidawa narrowly escaped death after coming under attack from a mob of angry villagers accusing her of being a witch.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail
Zambia has launched the 2014-2018 strategic plan aimed at expanding HIV and community sexual reproductive health rights (SRHR) in women, girls and adolescents.
Source: Vibe Ghana
Female members of Parliament from the Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) have urged the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) not to waver in its policy to fully implement the affirmative action policy.
Source: Libya Herald
Human rights defenders in Libya face threats of physical attacks, abduction, harm to their family and even murder on a daily basis, said a joint report of the UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) and UNSMIL.
Source: DailyTrust
Recently, Women and Stakeholders rose from the United Nation's 59th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Conference held in New York with the call for the inclusion of political and economic development demands of women in the successor framework of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Source: VibeGhana
Female members of Parliament from the Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) have urged the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) not to waver in its policy to fully implement the affirmative action policy. The policy is to disallow males from contesting sitting female MPs in 16 constituencies.
Source:Mail&Guardian
Earlier this month, when President Jacob Zuma said that teenage mothers should be separated from their children and sent "far away" to Robben Island where they would be "forced to go to school", even he forecast a backlash. "I am sure people are going to protest as I am talking now," he said.
Source: WeNews
The most recent, 59th, session of the Commission on the Status of Women drew representatives of more than 1,100 nongovernmental groups who participated in over 600 events across the city, according to U.N. officials, making it the largest ever feminist gathering at the U.N., nearly double the annual average participation.
Source: TheNewDawn
The Ministry of Gender and Social Children Protection has emphasized the need for the protection of the rights of every woman and Child in the country.
Source: AFKinsider
Sex workers in Zimbabwe are getting creative with mobile technology, using mobile money services to get paid on cell-phones and smartphones, and social media to alert human rights activists when they encounter violence, according to reports in VenturesAfrica and NewZimbabwean.
Source: Malawi24
Girls Empowerment Network (GENET) officials say lack of human rights knowledge among women and girls is the major obstacle in fight against Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the country.
Source: DailyIndependentLagos
Against the backdrop of recent celebration of Mother's Day, Sandra Eguagie Programme Assistant Officer on Environment for Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) wants violence against women and girl-child be addressed by the Nigerian government.
Source:Inter Press Service
Earlier this month, the Barack Obama administration announced a new initiative designed to improve girls’ education around the world. Dubbed “Let Girls Learn,” the programme builds on current progress made, such as ensuring girls are enrolled in primary school at the same rates as boys, and is looking to expand opportunities for girls to complete their education.
Source: AFKInsider
The dialogue around female tech entrepreneurs in Africa needs to change from usage of belittling terms such as “mompreneur” to focusing on promoting positive role models for others, according to female leaders in the sector.
Source: AllAfrica
The Women in Parliaments' Global Forum (WIP) Summit 2015 was held in Addis Ababa, Monday to Wednesday this week March 23-25) under the theme "New Leadership for Global Challenges". Last year at their Summit in Kigali, the Women in Parliament's Global Forum adopted the Kigali Declaration that called on world leaders and parliamentarians to improve education and healthcare levels, combat poverty and gender-based violence, as well as discriminatory practices and attitudes.
Source: DisruptAfrica
The monthly MESTtalk hosted by the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Accra, Ghana will this month discuss the landscape of female techpreneurship in Africa in honour of Women's History Month.