Source: The New York Times
Girls in at least 70 countries have faced threats, violent attacks and other abuse for trying to go to school over the past five years, the U.N. human rights office said Monday.
Source: Reuters
Pope Francis on Saturday condemned female mutilation and domestic violence against women, calling them degradations that had to be combated.
Source: Spy Ghana
Ghana has opened its social protection strategy for the United Nations, non-governmental organisations, donor community and development partners to scrutinise at New York.
Source: All Africa
Lilongwe, February 4, 2015: President Prof. Peter Mutharika says there is need to review some of the country's laws regarding women empowerment if Malawi is to have more women in decision making.
Source: All Africa
The Land Policy Initiative (LPI) organizes on 4 and 5 February 2015, in Entebbe, Uganda, an Experts' Group Meeting (EGM) to revise and validate the draft Gender Strategy of the organization.
Source: Press Release Rocket
The United Nations designates Feb. 6 as Zero Tolerance Day for Female Genital Mutilation, calling upon the world to use this day to enhance awareness and take concrete actions against FGM. Family support and community education through Unbound offer hope for ending FGM.
Source: SWC Bulletin
He may be set to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, but Gordon Bailey has his sights set a bit higher than the 19,341-foot peak.
Source: All Africa
This is the fourth in a series of articles analysing regional progress on gender equality and women's empowerment.
Source: AllAfrica
The African National Congress sends its condolences to the family of Kayde Williams on their daughter's tragic and untimely passing.
Source: Swazi Observer
On many International Women's Day celebrations, one is likely to hear a raft of statistics that both celebrate and lament the status of women.
While some indicators of gender equality have improved, others continue to shock and disappoint.
Source: This Day Live
The 24th Session of the Summit of the African Union (AU) with the theme 'Women's Empowerment and Development towards Africa's Agenda 2063' was held recently in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with focus on women empowerment and overall development of the continent.
Source: Jamaica Observer
SO, we are once again in Black History Month. Much discussion has been generated about the marginalised male in the African diaspora, in general, and Jamaica in particular.
Source: Huffington Post
Due to weak gender policies, lack of credible evaluation and measurement, implementation and monitoring, vaguely imported programs and the willingness to act, African governments are letting women and girls down.
Source: SpyGhana
Stakeholders, led by the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, have validated the new National Gender Policy (NGP); to help address gender equity and empowerment of women for national development.
Source: All Africa
Battles between coal mining companies, the municipalities that host them and affected local residents are now drawing blood with last week's rubber-bullet shootings and arrests of activists (including key women organisers) fighting coal and demanding a decent life in Emahlahleni (formerly Witbank).
Source: Newstime Africa
African women can and will be agents of change for the continent's transformation at all levels.
Source: News24
Zimbabwe president and soon-to-be-elected African Union chairperson, Robert Mugabe, said the representation of women in European parliaments isn't good enough to warrant them advising Africans about the issue.
Source: South Africa.info
Promising young girl coders from Khayelitsha met the Twitter vice-president for engineering, Nandini Ramani, to discuss how to pitch a business idea and how to use social media to grow their success.
Source: The Globe and Mail
Four months after Boko Haram shocked the world by kidnapping more than 200 students, a small group of schoolgirls who narrowly escaped from the Islamist extremists were facing a new dilemma: Should they go back to school?
Source: Global Post
The wives of African presidents on Saturday vowed to rejuvenate the fight against maternal health, gender violence and discrimination to ensure women are critical players in the continent's development.