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.
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: News Day
Educated women are more vulnerable to gender-based violence (GBV) than their uneducated counterparts, Choice Damiso, a human rights lawyer with UNFPA, said at the weekend.
Source: New Zimbabwe
Leading peace and human rights activist Jestina Mukoko has said delays by government in establishing the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) is preventing women from enjoying their fundamental rights.
Source: The Guardian
Women's rights activists have expressed alarm at the proposed wording of a UN declaration that they say could portend a major step backwards for women's rights.
Source: FrontPageAfricaOnline
Several rural women representatives from the fifteen counties are in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, attending a three-day conference on a joint program aimed at accelerating progress toward the Economic empowerment of rural women.
Source: IPS News
Women leaders from every continent, brought together by U.N. Women and the Chilean government, demanded that gender equality be a cross-cutting target in the post-2015 development agenda. Only that way, they say, can the enormous inequality gap that still affects women and children around the world be closed.
Source: The Guardian
Around the world, International Women's Day represents an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women while calling for greater equality.
Source: Inter Press Service
Women's participation in decision-making is highly beneficial and their role in designing and applying public policies has a positive impact on people's lives, women leaders and experts from around the world stressed at a high-level meeting in the capital of Chile.