Source: The Star
Africa has the highest proportion of women reporting physical or sexual violence according to a report by UN Women.
Source: All Africa
President Jacob Zuma says the African continent must pick up the pace in advancing women to Head of State positions.
Source: UNHCR
As part of its #IBelong campaign to end statelessness, the UN refugee agency on Tuesday called for a global commitment to ensure all women can pass on their nationality to their children.
Source: The New Dawn Liberia
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has acknowledged the progress being made by the international community towards strengthening women empowerment and equality; but stressed that such efforts must be sustained at all levels of socio-economic development.
Source: Eco-Business
As the world marked International Women's Day on Sunday, a report by the United Nations (UN) agency for gender equality, UN Women, said that in the past two decades, progress on gender equality and empowerment has been "unacceptably slow", no thanks to factors such as climate change, conflict, and global financial crises.
‘Women in Politics’ 2015 Map launched at United Nations headquarters today reveals the “snail’s pace of progress” on gender equality and women’s participation in public and political life, prompting representatives of the UN and the Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU) to warn that such slow advancement will severely check the new global development agenda due to be adopted later this year.
Source: Reuters
In the past 20 years the world's women and girls have made significant progress in health, education and legal rights but wide gender gaps remain in economic participation, political leadership and security, according to research released Monday.
Source: Nyasa Times
Malawi's former President Joyce Banda says women leaders are "risk takers; they are honest; and that they care about the people they serve".
Source: GhanaWeb
The National Women's Organiser for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Otiko Afisah Djaba has called for support in increasing women's representation in the local Assembly elections.
Source: Reuters
Maternal and child death rates fell in every one of the poorest 49 countries in the world between 2010 and 2013, largely as a result of a U.N. initiative launched in 2010, the world body said on Tuesday.
Source: Gender Links
At a CSW59 session on climate justice and gender equality held yesterday at the United Nations, delegates discussed the ongoing need for gender responsive and people-centered climate agreement to be mainstreamed in COP21 and the post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals.
Source: Daily Trust
The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) is pushing for the Senate to pass a long-held bill prohibiting violence against persons in attempts to make it possible to prosecute "some obnoxious customary practises and other forms of violence which is prevalent in Nigeria today."
Source: CBNCAfrica
"If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation)" - Dr. James Emmanuel Kwegyir-Aggrey.
Source: AfricanBrains
The opportunities for women to contribute to Africa's development have been in sharp focus this week at the African Development Bank ahead of International Women's Day on Sunday, March 8.
Source: The Guardian
In 2000 the United Nations security council passed resolution 1325 which vowed to ensure that women and gender equality were placed at the forefront of international, regional and local peace-building and security policies.
Source: The Star
Women leaders from Isiolo county have condemned female genital mutilation, terming it dangerous and archaic.
Source: Institute for Security Studies
Reporting sexual offences to the authorities is an important mechanism for determining the extent of this type of crime in a country, and it is crucial in designing effective intervention and prevention programmes.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
A GROUPING of over 45,000 member organizations has come up with research findings showing that alcohol is a major contributor to gender-based violence (GBV).
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Though the coastal cities of Senegal are situated on the fierce Atlantic Ocean, it is floods from heavy rains they struggle with, rather than rising tides.
Source:The New York Times
The evidence is ubiquitous. The gang rape of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi sets off an unusual burst of national outrage in India. In South Sudan, women are assaulted by both sides in the civil war. In Iraq, jihadists enslave women for sex. And American colleges face mounting scrutiny about campus rape.