Source: Zambia Daily Mail
PANOS Southern Africa senior programmes officer Gillies Kasongo says reproductive health services should be made user -friendly for teenagers to curb unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions.
Source: East African Business Week
Last week, Uganda held the 5th International Conference of Obstetric Fistula Surgeons.
Source: Global Post
The East African Parliament on Thursday said that the East African Community (EAC) partner states are lagging behind in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Four and Five on child and maternal health.
Source: Government of Ghana
The Media Foundation for West Africa's (MFWA ) monitoring of women's participation in public discourse programmes in Ghana show that political parties have consistently sideline women in their media engagements.
Source: Mmedionline
Most of these 'clinics' are now using the power of the social media to target pregnant Batswana women through advertisements, especially by creating Facebook pages.
Source: Independent European Daily Express
Experts are raising alarm that years of HIV interventions throughout Africa have failed to stop infection among young women 15 to 24 years old.
Source: Ventures Africa
Tosin Taiwo is a passionate volunteer and social worker with years of experience working directly with children and women in rural communities, with focus on education and empowerment programs.
Source: The Southern Times
Jairos Maruwe used to beat up his wife so badly he once knocked her unconscious and broke her arm.
Source: Gender Links
The Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) has called on UN member states to include strong provisions on gender, media and information communication technologies (ICTs) in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Source: Euronews
"A symbol of the peaceful fight against sexual violence, poverty and discrimination," is how the jury of the Asturias Awards described Caddy Adzuba in awarding her its Concord Prize, the Spanish royal foundation's equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Source: East African Community
The 7th Ordinary Meeting of the East African Inter-parliamentary Forum on Health Population and Development opened today at the Hilton Hotel, in Nairobi, Kenya.
Source: All Eyes On Africa
Today, we are so proud of Nigerian democracy activist and women’s right advocate Dr. Josephine Odumakin who was recently awarded the2013 United State Secretary of State’s International Woman of Courage Award.
Source: FIDH
As Egypt prepares for its second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council, the human rights situation in the country continues to deteriorate. Independent civil society groups including human rights organizations are facing unprecedented threats of closure and prosecution.
Source: The Daily Vox
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) on Tuesday launched a global funding campaign to raise R10-million rand by the end of November.
Source: The News Record
A student leader is using her position to bring an event to the University of Cincinnati designed to inspire women to find their inner royalty.
Source: The Independent
A pioneering British charity founder has won a $500,000 (£313,000) global award for her work in helping to bring education to more than a million girls in Africa.
Source: Daily Mail
TEACHER unions are in a better position to wage a serious campaign to uplift the status and position of women and girls in the country, Education Deputy permanent secretary Christine Mayondi has said.
Source: Al Monitor
When Mona Karam landed in California, the young Egyptian civil engineer's professional goals added up to little more than a vague desire to get a master's degree in whatever the latest tech trend happens to be, she said.
Source: The Point
Youth and Sports minister Alieu K Jammeh has urged youths, particularly young women, to be more hardworking and to jealously guard their culture and traditions, "characteristics that underpin our humanity with dignity and strong personality."
Source: All Africa
The largest gains in primary school completion over the past decade were observed among girls, while secondary education remains a challenge for adolescent girls in many regions, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and South and West Asia, says the governor of West Coast Region, Aminata Sifaye Hydara.