Source: UN Women
Paramount Chief Kyungu of Malawi, an influential cultural leader; Ron Archer, a renowned transformative leadership coach from the United States of America; and Gilberto Macuacua, a media personality in Mozambique, who is also a member of the UN Women Regional Civil Society Group (RCSAG), have signed on as male supporters of UN Women's HeForShe campaign, calling on other men to follow suit.
Source: New York Times
By the time Sgt. Madot Dagbinza showed the photographer Michael Christopher Brown a handful of snapshots, she'd been fighting with the 42nd Commando Battalion of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo for four years.
Source: RH Reality Check
Women in Africa have a clear right to abortion—on paper, that is. In 2003, the African Union adopted the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.
Source: AgWired
Olivia Narciso Pedro, a lecturer and researcher at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique is one of 70 outstanding African women agricultural scientists to have been awarded a 2015 fellowship from African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD).
Source: Humanosphere
All laws in the world discriminating against women were supposed to be wiped out by 2005. Ten years later, numerous countries still have laws that restrict equality between men and women. Many of the 189 government that agreed to ending gender inequality at the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women 20 years ago are not living up to their promises, says the women's group Equality Now.
Source: Ventures
Nigeria-born Ghanaian software engineer Farida Bedwei may be the Definition of a Miracle, as her vaguely autobiographical novel suggests, but her success is a testament to hard work and resolve. With sheer determination and belief, the 36-year-old, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of one and was homeschooled by her mother until she was 12, has risen to become one of the most influential women in financial technology in Africa. Cerebral palsy is a neurological disorder that causes physical disability, mainly in the areas of body movement. Although it does not obstruct the ability to learn, it is not curable.
Source: Global Post
Africa's scientific conference kicked off in Nairobi on Wednesday with Kenya calling on the continent to embrace information technology (IT) to solve myriad problems in the health sector.
Source: Lancashire Telegraph
TODAY marks the second anniversary of the funeral of South African model Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot dead by her Paralympic athlete boyfriend Oscar Pistorius.
Source:AllAfrica
A rash of sex discriminatory laws - including the legalisation of polygamy, marital rape, abduction and the justification of violence against women - remains in statute books around the world.
Source: AllAfrica
This is the fifth in a series of articles analysing regional progress on gender equality and women's empowerment. The Sadc Gender Protocol sought to ensure equal participation among women and men in productive resources and employment by 2015.
Source: pride source.com
I had the opportunity to attend the 27th National Conference on LGBTQ Equality: Creating Change in Denver, Colorado with the staff at LGBT Detroit from Feb. 4-8. Creating Change brings together thousands of activists, artists, scholars, allies and enthusiasts to share and discover together.
Source: New Vision
A movement dubbed HeforShe, aimed at engaging men and boys to support women's course of empowerment, is to be launched by government.
This was revealed by UN Women gender and humanitarian specialist, Claire Hawkins in Kampala.
Source: Jadaliyya
Andrea Khalil, editor, Gender, Women, and the Arab Spring. London and New York: Routledge, 2015.
[Editors' Note: This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of North African Studies 19.2 (2014).
Source: allAfrica
Girls'Agenda, a community based organisation (CBO), with funding from the Network Against Gender, observed Valentine Day celebration by organising a community outreach forum on Sexual Violence on the 14thFebruary, 2015 at Brikama Mansaringsu.
Source: allAfrica
I remember one time when my grandmother paid us a visit in the city, she made a remark 'How the world has changed.' She was referring to a group of ladies, standing outside the restaurant who as they were chatting would pause every now and then to take a puff from the cigarette clutched between their meticulously manicured nails. She then went on to explain how during her time, you would not see a woman smoking, let alone a well educated woman as these women obviously were and certainly not in public.
Source: allAfrica
Four Nigerian women who sued the Abuja Environment Protection Board, AEPB, the Nigerian Police, the Nigerian Army and other government security agencies working for AEPB at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, have asked the court to give judgment in their favour.
Source: The Avenue Mail
The Seven Summits Women Team who all hails from Nepal is the first female team in the world to climb the highest mountain in each continent. In an epic journey starting from the summit of Mt Everest, the team has climbed successfully in all seven continents.
Source: Swazi Observer
SAD stories of gross violence against women at the hands of those who claim to love them take up a lot of space in local newspapers.
This is contained in a study conducted by Swaziland Rural Women Assembly (SRWA) which was presented during a short meeting at Mountain Inn yesterday. SRWA Director Hlobsile Dlamini-Shongwe explained that they monitored newspaper coverage of women and girls stories over two years. She said the organisation was formed to address the needs of rural women, noting that they lagged behind in many aspects.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
Forced underage marriage, trafficking, female genital mutilation and domestic violence – this doesn't sound like the "lucky" country. However, the harsh reality is that there are serious concerns in these areas and some have referred to domestic violence as a national epidemic in Australia.
Source: Times of Zambia
A young woman Lucy Nkonde (not real name), walked out of her husband's house, after enduring a two year loveless marriage in her natal village in Luwingu.
She ran to her sister in Kasama with a view of continuing her education from grade 9 where she had stopped after failing exams and dragged into a marriage against her will