Source: France Info
Son rôle: faire de la prévention et de la sensibilisation dans les villages pour lutter contre les violences domestiques et libérer la parole.
SOURCE: New Times
The East African Legislative Assembly has a given a nod to a motion by MP Françoise Uwumukiza urging Ministers in charge of EAC Affairs to recommend partner states to enhance gender equality in access to food nutrition security in the six-member bloc.
Source: Togo First
Au Togo, il a été lancé jeudi 2 juin, la première édition du programme “Académie pour les Femmes Entrepreneures” (African Women Entrepreneurship Academy), sous la houlette du ministère en charge de l’action sociale et de la promotion de la femme. Il s’agira de former et de renforcer les capacités de 25 femmes entrepreneures togolaises en début de carrière, afin d’améliorer leur performance entrepreneuriale, avec un certain accent sur l’entrepreneuriat social.
Source: ONU Info
Une paix durable n’est possible qu’avec la participation pleine, véritable et égale des femmes aux processus politiques et de paix.
SOURCE: UN News
More than 286,000 people have been driven from their homes in the region after crops failed and animals died due to the drought and over 1100 schools are either fully or partially closed, leaving young girls especially vulnerable to sexual and physical violence and coercion, child labour and early marriage.
SOURCE: UNFPA
SELOKOLELA, Botswana/UNITED NATIONS, New York – “Menstruation is still considered a secret that is hardly discussed,” Ogaufi Moisakamo, in Botswana, told UNFPA. “When I got my first period, I was also ashamed of informing my mother. And when I finally told her, she only warned me against playing with boys as it would ‘get me pregnant’.”
Source: FranceInfo: Afrique
La militante soudanaise des droits des femmes Amira Osmane Hamed a reçu le 27 mai 2022 le Prix pour les défenseurs des droits humains en danger décerné par l'ONG internationale Front Line Defenders.
Source: AfricaNews
Les assemblées annuelles 2022 de la Banque africaine de développement viennent de se tenir au Centre de conférences international d'Accra, la capitale du Ghana. Elles avaient pour thème, "favoriser de la résilience climatique et d'une transition énergétique juste pour l'Afrique". Les délégués y ont discuté de la manière dont le continent peut se développer dans ce contexte malgré les effets de la pandémie et de l'inflation.
Source: Agence Ivoirienne de Presse
Le bureau de terrain commun des Nations Unies à Bouaké a abrité, vendredi 27 et samedi 28 mai 2022, un atelier technique sur le projet TAKEDA “2 heures pour la vie: Garantir l’accès à des services de santé maternelle”.
Source: Agence Mauritanienne d'Information
Les travaux d’un atelier de lancement du projet de promotion de chaînes de valeurs agricoles sensibles au genre en appui au programme d’appui à la transformation de l’agriculture en Mauritanie, organisé par le ministère de l’agriculture, ont débuté lundi à Nouakchott.
SOURCE: Concord
The United Nations children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that menstrual health and hygiene management is still out of reach, particularly among the poorest, ethnic groups, refugees, and people with disabilities in sub-Saharan Africa.
SOURCE: VOA
Cameroon observed World Menstrual Hygiene Day Saturday with donors and health workers distributing reusable sanitary pads to several hundred poor girls displaced by terrorism and the country’s separatist crisis. Some of the girls said they were seeing sanitary pads for the first time. Also, sensitization teams are working to convince communities to stop stigmatizing girls during menstruation.
Source: AllAfrica
Menstruation is a topic handled with secrecy in many African cultures, perhaps to preserve the dignity of women and girls going through it. These cultural practices meant to protect sometimes end up doing the exact opposite. We are glad that this year's menstrual hygiene day is tagged as "making menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030 ."
SOURCE: NEW TIMES.
The sports sector has for years been widely dominated by men despite current efforts being put in empowering women to play an equal part in all aspects of the sector.
SOURCE: CONCORD TIMES
It took a little over two years after she sat for the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) in 2018 for the life of 22-year-old Sarah Bangura to change - even forcing her to seek comfort at the country's psychiatric hospital - due to the effects of obstetric fistula, a condition in which a hole develops in the birth canal caused by prolonged, obstructed labour.
Source: Front Page Africa
The paramount chief of Todee District, Monsterrado County has revealed that girls under the ages of 11 to 14 years are under a barrage of societal pressures to undergo Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), and it’s having a devastating impact on their education.
Source: BusinessDay
At least 300,000 women and children are lost annually in Africa to smoke from firewood, according to the African Development Bank (AfDB).
Source: Le Sahel
Les rideaux sont tombés le 21 mai à Kisumu au Kenya sur la 9ème édition du Sommet Africités, l’évènement phare de l’Organisation Cités et Gouvernements Locaux Unis (CGLU) Afrique qui se tient tous les trois ans dans l’une des cinq régions du continent.
Source: AfriqueSur7
Malgré les efforts du gouvernement, les violences basées sur le genre (VBG) demeurent préoccupantes. A titre d’exemple, du 1er novembre 2021 jusqu’au 30 mars 2022, le CNDH a documenté 79 cas de VBG dont 25 cas de viol, 22 cas de violences physiques, 15 cas de violences psychologiques, 14 cas de violences conjugales et 3 cas de mariage forcés.
SOURCE: Allafrica
Did you know ... in the whole of West Africa there have only been three women heads of state since 1957 (Guinea-Bissau and Liberia), there are only two women speakers currently in the legislature (Togo and Benin) and there are only two countries with over 30% women's representation in legislative chambers (Cabo Verde and Senegal)