Source: Harrison Daily Voice
Mary Grace Henry, a Harrison resident and student at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, has recently been presented with the World of Children Award for providing education to children in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Source: Amnesty International UK
Life sentences proposed for the 'crime' of homosexuality.
Source: The Daily Observer
A deputy permanent secretary at the Office of the Vice President has reaffirmed that the government of The Gambia has amply demonstrated its commitment to peace and security by ratifying international conventions and enacting national laws and policies to ensure the protection of women's rights and their empowerment.
Source: The Sunday Independent
Fourteen years ago, 189 nations of the world, among them South Africa, signed a pledge that would turn into what we now know as the UN Millenium Development Goals. They would become the cornerstone with which we measure development, especially in the global south, where millions were, and continue to be, affected by extreme poverty.
Source: Swazi Observer
Lowering the number of girls and women who are infected by HIV is key to ending the epidemic in Swaziland. Worldwide, women account for half of people living with HIV and AIDS, and in Swaziland the figure is more than half.
Source: All Africa
Botswana is targeting men in the police services, armed forces and prisons in a campaign to tackle violence against women, a government official said on Tuesday.
Source: All Africa
The Esikhaleni Regional Court convicted and sentenced Sandile Khulekani Sibiya (22) of Nhlababo area, Mtunzini to 20 years imprisonment.
Source: The New Times
The secret to Africa's development is by empowering women economically, the Minister for Finance and Economic Planning, Claver Gatete told African women legislators.
Source: The Washington Post
When a homeless female veteran came to the first American Legion's Veterans Benefits center last month in Los Angeles with documents that said she had suffered a sexual trauma in the military, she was able to share her story with a high-ranking woman leader of the veterans group.
Source: Frost Illustrated
"I am a Liberian, not a virus." That's the loud and clear message of a campaign launched online by a group of Liberian women who refuse to be shamed by thoughtless outbreaks of rejection and cruelty that link African people with the epidemic that has taken thousands of lives.
Source: This Day Live
The Kolagbodi Memorial Foundation (KMF) in conjunction with Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FEF) recently held its 18th Annual Kolagbodi Lecture in Lagos, with a call on women to fight for their rights in their workplaces.
Source: New Vision
Africa cannot afford to exclude half of its rural producers from access to an important production factor because it is not only undemocratic but also ant-economic, Dr. Hubert Ouedraogo, a senior land expert at the Land Policy Initiative has said.
Source: Telesur
The world has a lot to learn from female empowerment in Rwanda where sixty-four percent of its parliament consists of women – more than any other country in the world.
Source: BDlive
IT DEEPLY concerns us that patriarchy has been brought back to the mainstream and seems to be supported, if not promoted, by the state agenda, ironically through a campaign that is designed to address the scourge of gender-based violence.
Source: Devex
The number and scale of humanitarian crises erupting in recent months is quite extraordinary — conflicts in Central African Republic, Gaza, Iraq, Syria, South Sudan and Ukraine and the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.
Source: BBC News
Lorna Rutto is an entrepreneur who founded Ecopost, a Nairobi-based company that recycles plastic waste.
Source: Ventures
African countries are experiencing immense success in entrepreneurship,economic growth, and investment according to the recently launched Africa Prosperity Report.
Source: Daily Maverick
It has been reported in a media release from various feminist organisations that the ministry of women in the presidency invited organisations to a meeting about plans for 16 days of activism for no violence against women and children.
Source: UN News Centre
The United Nations committee tasked with monitoring implementation of the global treaty to end all forms of discrimination against women has published a set of guidelines today to ensure that the challenges faced by women in situations of displacement and statelessness are addressed and their rights enforced.
Source: Iwacu
During the UN General Assembly in New York on 15 October 2014, Ambassador Albert Shingiro, the Permanent Representative of Burundi to the UN, has declared that the Burundi Government has put in place some measures to protect women.