Source: All Africa
President Jacob Zuma will on Friday lead the South African delegation to the 24th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly (AU Summit) to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Source: Africa Young Voices
Executive Officer of Disabled international Foundation Sierra Leone (DIFSIL), Ambassador Imambay Kadie Kamara has disclosed that the women's Geneva Call was a success for all women in the world more specially African women.
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
Three renowned human rights activists described the successes and challenges facing women's movements in Africa and elsewhere on Tuesday at an Antioch University panel and networking event, "Architects for Change."
Source: New Vision
In many parts of the world, Uganda inclusive, women's rights to land and property are denied. The existing laws give women fewer or less secure rights than men, and inequitable and discriminatory attitudes and practices undermine them.
Source: FRANCE 24
An Egyptian appeals court on Monday convicted a doctor of manslaughter for performing female genital mutilation that led to the death of a 13-year-old girl, sentencing him to two years and three months in prison, defense lawyers said.
Source: AllAfrica
The world needs inclusive policies that seek the contribution of everybody, including women, in order to attain global gender parity. The statement was made yesterday by President Paul Kagame while speaking on the last day of this year's World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Source: Outlook India
Girls outperform boys in educational achievement levels in 70 per cent of the countries including in those where women liberties are severely restricted, a new large-scale study has said, suggesting that gender equality is not enough to close the achievement gaps in global education.
Source: Reuters
Women in Zimbabwe are calling for tougher penalties for sexual harassment of women amid public anger over a highly publicised street attack and with police data showing that some offenders have got off with fines as low as $5 in the past.
Source: Libya Herald
After a series of workshops and wide consultations since 2013 on the Constitution, the Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP) launched a Charter of Libyan Women’s Constitutional Rights last week.
Source: Counter Current News
Several Nigerian media outlets have been reporting on local women in the villages of Attagara and Kawuri in Borno State who recently disarmed nearly a dozen Boko Haram terrorists. The notorious pseudo-Islamic terror groups tried to attack the Attagara and Kawuri communities over the weekend but the insurgents were instantly repelled by a group of armed women.
Source: Diplomatic Courier
At the millennium summit of the United Nations in September of 2000, the nations of the world adopted a series of goals aimed at increasing the quality of life for all of humankind by 2015.
Source: The Swazi Observer
The year 2014 is a black-spot in the development, advancement and improvement of the status of women and girls in Africa.
Source: The Guardian Nigeria
JANUARY is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Cervical cancer epitomizes the cost-effectiveness of investing in preventive health care. Cervical cancer is the easiest of all cancers to prevent.
Source: The Namibian
A CHEQUERED picture is emerging as a baseline survey, ahead of a programme meant to strengthen the capacity of SADC national parliaments to respond to sexual reproductive health rights issues in parts of the region, nears completion.
Source: AllAfrica
Token legal reforms have failed to end widespread public, domestic and state violence against women and girls in Egypt, who face sexual abuse, mob attacks, and torture in custody, a a rights group report said on Wednesday.
Source: The Daily Beast
With Ebola still raging in Sierra Leone, a small sliver of hope has emerged: female genital mutilation has halted. Could this be the beginning of the end for the dangerous procedure?
Source: Times of Oman
Muscat: Africa's "premier diva" Angélique Kidjo was the sunshine after a rainy day when she performed at the Royal Opera House Muscat on Monday evening.
Source: BlackNews.com
The images of dark-skinned black girls in the media can be negative, stereotypical, angry and sad.
Source: Biztech Africa
Over 300 girls in the Upper West region of Ghana will be receiving hands-on education on Information and Communication Technology (ICT), thanks to the Soronko Solutions Road show known as the Tech Needs Girls programme, a mentorship programme in which girls between the ages of 6-18 are mentored to be innovative by learning to code or create technology.
Source: News24
Girls with bachelor passes are sweeping past boys to snap up the lion's share of places at higher education institutions - but why aren't these bright young things reaching the workplace? News24 unravels the mystery.