Source: The Telegraph
As the first global Women's Entrepreneurship Day launches, Emma Sinclair reminds us there's no 'typical' image of a female entrepreneur and says that - for women in remote parts of the world - being self-sufficient in business is a matter of life or death.
Source: New Business Ethiopia
The Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA ), Mr. Carlos Lopes, urged African countries to work hard on women empowerment and gender equality.
Source: The Irish Times
Gender-based violence is one of greatest challenges facing South Africa today and it needs to be rooted out of local cultures, President Michael D Higgins said yesterday after meeting South Africans engaged in tackling the issue.
Source: All Africa
The Multi-Party Women's Caucus has heard that the theme of this year's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence campaign will focus on men, as they are the most common perpetrators of the violence.
Source: The World Post
For many generations, Africa has been looked upon by people around the globe as one of the world's greatest social problems. Corrupt governments, starving children and the HIV/AIDS epidemic dominated people's perceptions.
Source: All Africa
Women's rights organizations meeting in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia from 14-16 November have called on African governments to re-dedicate themselves to upholding national, regional and international laws and policies that advance women's rights and gender equality on universal human rights standards already agreed upon and protect them from social moral and cultural arguments and positions.
Source: IOL News
This case has shown the Equality Court to be a vital tool to bring about social change and social justice, says Peter Williams.
Source: Voice of America
Mozambique has one of the world's highest rates of child marriage - driven by strong social and cultural traditions, despite the practice being illegal.
Source: The Daily Star
BEIRUT: A gathering of NGOs and right groups called on the Lebanese authorities Tuesday to investigate thoroughly in the death and injury of three migrant domestic workers last week.
Source: Devex
News of soaring demand for land in Africa and the strain this places on rural men and women is not new. Nor is it news that some of the land governance systems on the continent have not sufficiently protected rural communities in the face of heightened demand for land.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
"THIS is cruelty of the highest degree. You cannot believe it," remarked a court official, who pleaded anonymity. Such a statement attracted the attention of many people in the court.
Source: Star Africa
Hundreds of protestors poured into the streets of Nairobi on Monday to protests over the rising cases of stripping of women in Nairobi and Mombasa.
Source: Global Post
Fewer babies could mean an "economic miracle" for sub-Saharan Africa, with gains of $500 billion (400 billion euros) a year over three decades for the region, the UN Population Fund said Tuesday.
Source: New Security Beat
"Sub-Saharan Africa's young people are in effect the global labor force of the future," said Jack Goldstone at the Wilson Center on October 15.
Source: All Africa
Africa can boost its growth by a third and generate an "economic miracle" if it invests enough in the younger generation, says a top United Nations official tasked with promoting health and equal opportunities for the world's people.
Photographer, blogger and poet Nana Kofi Acquah uses his travels around Africa to chronicle the lives of women at their most accomplished and at their most vulnerable.
Source: Voice of America
Women's and civil society groups are criticizing a member of Ghana's parliament for calling for women who commit adultery to be stoned or hanged.
Source: Spy Ghana
Closing the gender gap in agriculture would accelerate significant economic gains in developing countries, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said.
Source: The Telegraph
Set in 1,000 acres of lush grassland, the sprawling campus of the American University of Nigeria represents everything that the Islamist militants of Boko Haram oppose. Since opening a decade ago, its stated aim for its 1,400 students is to provide a US-standard education for "Nigeria's and Africa's future leaders" – be they Christian or Muslim, male or female.
Source: The Independent
Mayiga Abdullah is a paedophile. He openly admits to it. And when he's told that in the UK he would be in prison and on the Sex Offenders' Register, he laughs.