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
Source: Malawi News Agency
Minister of Gender,Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Patricia Kaliati has emphasized the need for gender equality, equity and women empowerment if the country was to achieve sustainable development.
Source: NPR
Four hours. That's how much time physicist Rabia Salihu Sa'id has each day to get her research done at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria.
"Each day, my university is giving me only four hours of electricity. I can't do research in four hours!" Sa'id says, laughing, despite her frustration.
Source: The World Economic Forum
Despite progress in many societies, women almost everywhere still suffer from significant levels of discrimination. Even in countries where gender equality has advanced furthest, women are over-represented in lower-paying jobs, under-represented in senior government and business positions, and on the receiving end of most domestic violence.
Source: African Press Organization
"Agricultural research and development in Mozambique is an important tool for increasing production, and consequently reducing household malnutrition and poverty, particularly in children and women," says Olivia Narciso Pedro, a lecturer and researcher at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique. "My vision for agriculture-led growth in Mozambique is to design alternatives to mitigate loss of genetic diversity, and ensure conservation of species, while improving household food security."
Source: The Citizen
The failure of gender-based violence (GBV) to crack the barest hint of a nod during President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address last week has activists worried.
"We are extremely disappointed the president never spoke about it," said Sonto Magwaza of Sonke Gender Justice.
Source: ReliefWeb
More than $56 million is urgently needed to provide vital reproductive, maternal and newborn health services in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
This amount, according to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, will cover the initial six months of the UNFPA-led Mano River Midwifery initiative-a new Ebola-response effort that would increase the number of health workers to ensure that women and girls of childbearing age stay healthy and safe despite the crisis. The funds will also cover the cost of contact-tracing to identify all potential contacts of Ebola cases and help prevent infections.