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.
Source: TheGuardian
The millennium development goals sought to improve the lives of people living in the global south by reducing poverty and hunger, as well as improving access to health, education and water and sanitation.
Source: Leader
Teresa of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Marquise de Laserna and President of Honor of the NGO Harambee Spain, has awarded Vanessa Koutouan with the Harambee Award for the promotion and equality of African women 2015.
Source: StarAfrica
The New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD) has launched the Youth Employment and Women in Agribusiness Programmes which seeks to support the economic growth and empowerment of the African women, APA can report.
Source: WFP
For over six years, Rwanda camp for internally displaced people has been home to Insaf, her husband Hussain and their brood of seven.
Source: The Jurist
More than two hundred years since the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade on March 25, 1807, a trade that saw millions of African people taken away from their homes and families to work under brutal conditions far away from their homes and loved ones; millions of African people continue to be enslaved in their own countries, in the African continent and in many parts of the world as modern slaves to enrich the new slave masters. The majority of these victims are women and children.
Source:The Washignton Post
In my 10 years of activism on violence against women, I’ve focused my attention on Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, countries with hellish landscapes for women. Both nations are shortlist regulars for buzzy “worst places on earth for women” lists.