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.
Source: AFK Insider
Akaliza Kera Gara is one of Rwanda's leading female technology entrepreneurs and founder of Sharing Sun, a multimedia business.
Source: Medical Daily
Amid the climbing death toll, the Ebola outbreak has unexpectedly brought female genital mutilation (FGM) to a standstill after FGM practitioners decided to refuse to do the procedure due to fear of Ebola transmission through bodily fluids.
Source: Business Day Live
Nigerians fleeing a wave of killings by the extreme Islamist group Boko Haram have already lost loved ones, livelihoods and most of their possessions.
Source: All Africa
PLEDGE by the government to offer free secondary school education for all comes amid serious call by activists for elimination of unbefitting traditions of paying bride price to unborn children.
Source: MSF
The MSF duty surgeon in Yambio received a distress call from the maternity ward on a rainy Friday afternoon.
Source: MSF
On the bright morning of 3 November 2014, Adem, a 29-year-old mother of three arrived at the Yambio State Hospital's maternity ward with advanced labour pains.
Source: Morocco World News
The first Moroccan woman on the list is Minister Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs & Cooperation, Mbarka Bouaida, who ranked 7th, followed by Fatiha Mejatti, the "black widow of Jihad" and a member of the Islamic State's (IS) media committee, who ranked 13th.
Source: Pri
South Africa's economy under apartheid put huge pressure on black families.
Source: The Guardian
From the Girl Declaration at the African Union (AU) Summit to Malala Yousafzai being the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, girls dominated 2014. Here are some of the most celebratory moments of the last year.
Source: The Guardian
What should be included in the sustainable development goals to promote women's equality and empowerment, and will they work ?
Source: AllAfrica
The year 2015 is symbolic for gender equality and women's empowerment for three reasons.
Source: Irish Times
A chilling picture of the challenges facing women's rights activists in Afghanistan has been given by a campaigner from there who is visiting Ireland.
Source: StarAfrica
Senegal's Minister of Women, Family and Child Protection, Mrs. Mariama Sarr, has commended the ECOWAS Commission for its initiatives in the promotion of gender equality and sustainable development within the region.
Source: Huffington Post
A pre-teen female player has attracted widespread attention with her fight to overturn a clerical ban on her right to play football alongside boys in a co-ed league. Backed by her parents, the player initially succeeded with an online and media campaign to force the clergy to lift the ban temporarily.