Source: Daily Trust
Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof. Chidi Odinkalu has called on government to establish forensic services department in institutions of learning to provide the police with analytical service for investigating sexual offences and solving other crimes.
Source: Reuters
In a remote, deeply traditional corner of northern Tanzania, growing numbers of girls are running away from home to escape genital mutilation carried out during mass initiations.
Source: THISDAY Live
The maiden edition of the Most Valuable Governor's Wife Award 2014 [MVGWA] that was held at the Sheraton Hotel, Abuja has come to promote democracy as beneficiaries voted for the award winning governors' wives in their states and across the country.
Source: The Zimbabwean
During 2015, we shall take our continental programme of gender equality and women's empowerment to a higher level: by ensuring that women are at the table in conflict resolution and peace building by increasing the representation of women in public life; through the economic empowerment and financial inclusion of women; and by modernizing agriculture, and addressing women's access to land, technology, markets, infrastructure, and capital...
Source:allAfrica
Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women, Susan Shabangu, has asked learners and teachers at Glendale Secondary School to be counted in the fight to eradicate violence against women and children.
Source: Global Post
Authorities in Tanzania and their development partners on Tuesday signed a new commitment aimed at intensifying efforts to end female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage in the country.
Source: Daily Independent
Following the realisation that only a few young women between the ages of 18 to 35, participate actively in politics, a non-governmental group, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) last weekend organised a training on leadership for adolescent girls and women to further build their capacity in meeting the yearnings and aspirations of the times.
Source: LA Times
Some men have threatened to place a black magic curse on her. One came to her door with a machete threatening to kill her. Others have advised her husband to beat her to instill discipline, offering to do the job themselves if he was too softhearted.
It's not easy being Peninnah Tombo, a female rights activist in a tribe where the words "female" and "rights" rarely coincide.
Source: allAfrica
President Beji Caid Essebsi received, Tuesday, a delegation of the Tunisian Association "Women and Leadership" led by its Chairwoman Sana Ghenima.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
In a remote, deeply traditional corner of northern Tanzania, growing numbers of girls are running away from home to escape genital mutilation carried out during mass initiations.
In the Tarime district of Mara region, bordering Kenya, the number of girls who fled these illegal rituals at the end of last year doubled to 634 from 312 the year before, according to girls' rights campaigners.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail
NEW Partnership Africa's Development (NEPAD) Director of Programme Implementation and Coordination Estherine Fotabong has noted that only smart policies and economics will put women farmers at the centre of Africa's development.
Source: Foreign Policy
Fifteen years ago, the U.N. enshrined the idea that equality between men and women is inextricably linked with peace. It's time to act on that.
Source: Daily Trust
The list keeps growing. And it does appear it will not decline anytime soon. Women of clout and candour are taking up every available space in Lagos State judiciary and they seem so restless about it. In this report, Daily Trust takes a look at how the Lagos State judiciary now wears feminine garb in a way that challenges status quo in other states of the federation.
Source: The Daily Observer
The Girls Agenda, a community-based youth association on Sunday held a day long forum on sexual violence against women, at the Regional Education Directorate (region two) in Brikama, West Coast Region.
Source: IRIN
Around one million Nigerians have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). But the real figure is likely to be far higher, as NEMA officials cannot access the most insecure parts of the region.
Extrapolating from NEMA's count, the Presidential Initiative for the Northeast – a relief and recovery scheme – estimated last year that 1.5 million people had been displaced.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
ACTIVISTS in Zanzibar have urged the media to encourage women participate in politics and get ready to be voted into government during the next general election.
Activists from Ulingo Platform, Jumuia ya Wanawake Wenye Ulemavu Zanzibar (JUWAUZA) -- an organization for disabled women of Zanzibar, Gender Coalition, and TAMWA said that low representation of women in all decision making groups at all levels frustrates them in fighting for their rights.
Source: Yahoo News
Angelique Kidjo, one of the biggest African musicians on the world stage, on Sunday won her second Grammy for World Music album for "Eve," a tribute to the continent's women.
"This album is dedicated to the women of Africa -- to their beauty and resilience," the Beninese singer said. "Women of Africa -- you rock!"
Reports that rates of sexual assault and teenage pregnancy have soared in Sierra Leone since the start of the Ebola outbreak have prompted the government to plan a raft of measures to protect girls and the UN to investigate the scale of the increase.
Source: mysierraleoneonline.com
Post EVD recovery strategy is currently a high-table agenda of government and development partners in Sierra Leone. Specifically reclaiming girls from the lost paths in the course of their development is in top gear as was demonstrated this past Saturday at the well packed Kissy Town Community Hall in Waterloo, Western Rural District as the Girl Child Network engaged the community in an open dialogue and awareness raising forum on the importance of girl-child education and the role of the community to discourage early sex and teenage pregnancy.
The words "The Promise" are written in large letters over the tiny restaurant in Lagos Airport. Oluremi Sonaiya is seated on a plastic chair and opposite her are two young campaign assistants busily typing away on their laptops. Sonaiya has had enough of promises; too many of them made by the country's politicians have been left unfulfilled.