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.
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.