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

Source: The Huffington Post
This last year was an amazing year for women's advancement. Whether on the red carpet, Twitter or in the halls of the United Nations, it seemed everyone was talking about women's rights and advancing women's empowerment. The momentum shows no sign of slowing down, either. The African Union has declared 2015 the "Year of Women's Empowerment."

Source: Gender Links
Gender networks across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) urge the Council of Ministers to place the review of the SADC Gender Protocol high on the agenda of the 2015 Heads of State Summit.

Source: Deutsche Welle
Lobola is the name given to bride price in the Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swazi cultures which span the southern tip of Africa. It is a custom in which the family of the bridegroom man pays the family of the bride for her hand in marriage and has been in existence for centuries.

Source: PRWeb
Academy Award winning Director and Producer Louise Hogarth will document the process of paying wages to rural crafters in Bitcoin in her upcoming documentary, "DO Elephants Go To Heaven?".

 

Source: allAfrica

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a profound problem in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa: in Rwanda, 35 percent of women have reported experiencing physical, sexual, or emotional violence from a spouse or partner; in Liberia, 49 percent of women experienced violence from an intimate partner.

Source: CSRwire.com 

Imagine a day in which your access to clean, drinkable water ceased and you could not shower or bathe properly and you had no one to help you. For more than 783 million people around the world, that day was today.

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