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.
About 15 years ago, I was doing research on inheritance laws in Malawi and their impact on women.
Source:The Star
Singer Habida has decided to bare all about her life experiences for a new campaign seeking to empower the girl child. The former model and award wining singer will be opening up about a painful past that includes rape and racial profiling. She is embracing author Carl Gustav Jung mantra, "I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
Source: The Herald
Members of Parliament have called for the declaration of the International Women's Day as a public holiday in recognition of the political, economic and social achievement of women.
Source: Swazi Observer
Panos Institute Southern Africa (PSAf) is calling on media houses to put in place measures to address the limited participation of women in the news cycle, and ensure gender balance in media content.
Source: AfricanBrains
South Africa will table its country report, which reviews how far it has come in advancing women issues in the last 20 years, at the 59th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59).
Source: ITWeb Africa
While progress has been made towards decreasing the gender gap in mobile phone ownership and usage in low and middle income countries, a stark gender divide still exists and requires "targeted intervention" from the industry and policy-makers, according to new research published by the GSMA.