Source: HIT Consultant
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and global telecommunications operator Orange announced a new alliance to accelerate mobile health in Africa at the mHealth Summit 2014 in Washington, DC.
Source: CAJ News Africa
YOUNG Masai women in Kenya have denounced the female practice of genital mutilation (FGM), which is rife in the region.
Source: International Rescue Committee
The Ebola crisis in West Africa has taken a harsh toll on women and girls in some unexpected ways.
Source: Mail & Guardian
I heard a familiar complaint from a new father recently: “My baby’s asleep when I leave in the morning and by the time I get home, he’s asleep again. The only time I get to interact with him in the week is at night when he cries for us and I get up to put him back to sleep.”
Source: UN Women
“Suffering from poverty is much better than early marriage, says Karima, a bold young Egyptian woman who was forced into an early marriage with a cousin at the age of 15.
Source: The Conversation
A series of research projects is to take place in countries including Afghanistan, Palestine and South Africa to address our significant lack of knowledge about how to prevent physical and sexual violence against women.
Source: Politics Web
Zizi Kodwa says such a view could end up weakening confidence of the people. ANC disturbed by developing perception of "A Justice System that serves the rich".
Source: Rand Daily Mail
We need to find and combat the cause of gender-based violence at its root: patriarchy.
WE ARE observing 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children.
Source: Times LIVE
It's December again. The 16th time our country marks the internationally recognised 16-day campaign to prevent violence against women and children. It's punted by the Ministry of Women, Children and People with Disabilities - famous also for corruption and mismanagement.
Source: All Africa
In the penultimate part of our series to mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence, read about how each one of us can participate in ending this vice.
Source: All Africa
Sonke Co-founder to speak at White House rally, and to be recognised alongside U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and others, with Vital Voices Solidarity Award.
Source: The Citizen
As part of the 16 Days of Activism for no violence against women and children campaign, male members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) and Tshwane Metropolitan Police Department (TMPD) today led a walk aimed at raising awareness in respect of crimes against women and children.
Source: South Africa.info
Acting President Cyril Ramaphosa called on South Africans to build the kind of society to which the late former President Nelson Mandela dedicated his life.
Source: The Daily Times
Sara Mollel, 44, is one of the happiest Maasai women in northern Tanzania's region of Arusha.
Source: The New Times
Women from several social groups in Kigali have welcomed a new project that seeks to teach them multimedia skills in video and photography.
Source: Bloomberg
Marie Odie strokes a purple cocoa pod, sizing it up, before she walks on through the trees on her plantation in central western Ivory Coast. After four years of hard work, she's about to pick her first harvest.
Source: Reuters
Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party confirmed President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace as the new head of its women's wing at a congress on Saturday, underlining her swift political rise in the troubled southern African country.
Source: Sahara Reporters
Queen mothers in the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana have unanimously called on the country's parliament not to pass the Plant Bleeders Bill.
Source: Ghana Web
Following the article dated April 8, 2014 by the Ghana News Agency on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) practices in the Upper East Region which was based on a research from Action Aid Ghana and the Belim Wasa Development Agency; the Coalition of Women in Governance (COWIG) has also investigated a report by a victim and attest to the fact that the practice is still prevailing in that part of the Country.
The African Union’s (AU) Special Envoy for Women, Peace and Security says she will lead a delegation to meet with mothers of the abducted Chibok school girls in Nigeria. Militants from the radical Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped over 200 girls from Chibok nearly eight months ago.