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.
Source: AFK Insider
More girls are enrolling in school, but there are still enormous gaps. The World Bank reports that, while secondary school enrollment has soared in low-income countries, in Africa and South Asia boys are still 1.55 times more likely to finish secondary school than girls.
Source: The Justice
On Thursday, Prof. Shulamit Reinharz Ph.D. '72 (SOC), founder of the Women's Studies Research Center, introduced the most recent lecturer. She explained, "95 percent of the lectures given here from 2001 to now have been by the 85 scholars who work here.
Source: StarAfrica
The World Bank has approved $170.2 million for women and adolescent girls to expand their access to reproductive, child and maternal health services in five countries in Africa's Sahel region and the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS).
Source: Yahoo News
Experts say Nigeria's Boko Haram appears to be increasing its use of a particularly brutal terrorist tactic: forcing abducted girls to blow themselves up in crowded spaces.
Source: Al Monitor
Egyptian women have been using a number of hashtags — among them #Idon'tFeelSafeOnTheStreet, #AntiHarassment and #ExposeHarasser — on social networking sites to speak up about the daily sexual harassment they experience. These campaigns are part of an effort to expose harassers and break the silence surrounding their crimes, which are haunting women in Egypt. Women have tweeted myriad incidents along with advocating the courage to expose and confront harassers.
Source: Africa News CN
Children in northeastern Nigeria were in desperate need of protection from relentless violence, a UN spokesman said on Friday.