Source: Voice of America
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.
Source: Deseret News
The ongoing Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa has fueled pessimism and led many commentators to declare that these nations are beyond help and hope.
Source: Daily Independent
Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh has unveiled her Charity Foundation to be known as the Tonto Dikeh Foundation.
Source: UN News
More than half-way through an international campaign to end violence against women, a top United Nations expert on the issue is calling for a binding international legal standard that holds Member States accountable in fighting this widespread human rights violation.
Source: Yahoo News
The huge negative impact of violence against women and girls on the global economy gives international financial institutions a unique role to play in ending it, a new guide on the issue said.
Source: StarAfrica
The head of the European Union mission in Banjul has poured encomiums on what she called Gambia's progress in the protection of women's rights.
Source: Daily Maverick
"A few days ago, I was at a community meeting... We were under a tree."
Source: New Vision
At least 800 abortions are carried out every day in Uganda.
Source: Times Live
Free State legislature speaker Sisi Mabe was a strong woman, brilliant and yet humble, the legislature's spokesman Life Mokone said on Monday.
Source: The Daily Beast
Domestic violence against women may actually be a cause of war—so how do we disrupt the vicious cycle that propels young men into battle?
Source: The Nigerian Observer
IT is a deliberate and collaborative effort to trigger voluntary personal actions and catalyze behavior change across African communities on gender violence through aggressive public education, awareness creation and youth engagement/capacity building activities
Source: Deutsche Welle
Fartuun Adan has spent decades campaigning for the rights of traumatized women in war-torn Somalia. Germany's Friedrich Ebert Foundation is awarding her its Human Rights Prize.
Source: Daily Maverick
The economic empowerment of women in Africa, and globally, is one of the key strategies in advancing women's rights and liberating them from intergenerational cycles of poverty and dependence.
Source: Leadership Newspapers
While some West-African countries are still battling the scourge of the Ebola virus and Nigeria is still basking in the euphoria of winning the war against the virus, HIV/AIDS still remains a major health pandemic insidiously affecting children, youths and women in our country; dangerously reaching epidemic proportions.
Source: The Huffington Post
According to an immigration judge in the United States, "Domestic violence is private in nature and is not the type of politically motivated harm entitled to international protection under the Refugee Law."
Source: Zambia Daily Mail
UNDER the banner "Peace begins at home: End violence, empower women" Gender Links is calling for a radical shift in approaches to ending violence during the Sixteen Days of Activism from November 25 to December 10.
Source: PR Newswire
From November 27 through 30, Marrakech, Morocco hosted the second annual World Human Rights Forum. More than 7,000 people from nearly 100 countries met to assess progress and challenges in the human rights arena in four days of workshops, panel discussions, and other activities.
Source: Irish Times
"Women's empowerment is vital to stop man-inflicted violence," former president of Ireland Mary Robinson has told a seminar organised by the Irish Consortium on Gender Based Violence (ICGBV).
Source: The Guardian
Study highlights enduring discrimination in areas ranging from land and inheritance rights to politics and social justice.
Source: All Africa
The Congress of South African Trade Unions in the NW jointly with its affiliates will be celebrating our victory in the late Pinky Mosiane case after the perpetrator was sentenced last week for raping and killing our late sister Pinky Mosiane on 6th Feb 2012 at Anglo Platinum mine.