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.
Source: Malawi24
Renowned and experienced lawyer Ralph Kasambara who also served as the country's minister as well as attorney general in two different regimes has faulted the marriage bill being championed by a few activists as the law that the country needs on marriage and divorce.
Source: allAfrica
Hollywood actress Meryl Streep will narrate a documentary on women's health in Kenya. The Devil Wears Prada star will voice a feature documentary Shout Gladi Gladi, co-directed by Adam Friedman and Iain Kennedy.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail
THE Copperbelt has recorded a notable rise in reports of gender-based violence (GBV) with cases almost doubling to 4,246 in 2014, from 2,626 in 2013.
Source: ANGOP
March 2nd is the day consecrated to the Angolan women, in recognition of their role in the struggle of resistance of the Angolan people against the Portuguese colonial occupation.
Source: Al-Monitor
I vividly remember, when I was little, those collective ceremonies that our neighbors from rural areas — from Upper Egypt in particular — used to have for their daughters. They used to hand out sweet rice dishes and the girls used to wear brand new white clothes, as if they were brides.
Source: IPS
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.
Source: The Guardian Nigeria
AS Nigerians count down to the rescheduled Presidential election slated for March 28, the support base of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) got a boost last week from Umoji Women Association, Umuoji of Anambra State, Lagos Branch.
Source: Spy Ghana
Former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, has expressed disappointment at the Member of Parliament for Daboya, Mr Nelson Baani, for making comments which threatened the human rights of women.
Source: All Africa
A report published by two science organisations earlier this month criticised the current framework for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as being largely ill-defined, not based on the latest science, lacking in synergy and with no narrative of development.
Source: Morocco World News
A group of 38 women's groups presented a report on violence against women in Morocco last week in the capital Rabat. The report, whose content has been reported by news website Hespress, has found that 55% of these women have suffered or are still suffering from domestic violence.
Source: Thought Leader
As a woman who was once an extremely frightened girl, I know full well and appreciate the benefits that come with feeling empowered in a largely male-dominated world. Much of the abuse I experienced as a child was at the hands of angry, damaged, broken, lurid men.
Source: Xinhua
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lamented here on Friday the "slow and unequal" rise of women in global politics at a high-level conference.
"There are many more women in the global political arena, but progress is very slow and unequal," Ban said at the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).
Source: Daily Independent (Lagos)
On the night of April 14 and 15, 2014, about 276 female students who were quietly sleeping on their school dormitory at the Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, were kidnapped and till date, 219 of the girls are still missing. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the kidnappings.
Source: Libya Herald
An open letter to Bernardino Leon, head of UNSMIL