Source: Leadership
A Sokoto-based prominent woman politician, Hajiya Inno Attahiru, urged the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, to set up a special fund for women in politics as the 2015 general elections drew nearer.
Source: New Security Beat
"Half of the world's population is under 30 – any development agenda would have to address their needs, including their health needs, as part of accomplishing development goals," said Jennifer Adams, deputy assistant administrator at USAID's Bureau for Global Health, at the Wilson Center on September 24.
Source: UN News Centre
Sexual violence has become a key feature of the continuing conflict in South Sudan, the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura, has declared, while affirming that the widespread use of rape could ultimately be stopped through greater political and legal efforts by the Government and civil society.
Source: New Security Beat
"During the liberation war," Rwandan President Paul Kagame said in a 2010 speech, "soldiers used to sing a song praising the mothers who had carried them on their backs as babies, nurtured them, and taught them the values that ultimately informed the vision for this nation."
Source: The Guardian
Dorkenoo's lifelong dream of a global, Africa-led movement against FGM was realised just a week before her death.
Source: The Sun
She is beautiful and brainy and guess what, she is passionate about Nigeria.
Source: Post Zambia
The government has expressed concern at the high rate of child marriages in rural Itezhi-tezhi district.
Source: Spy Ghana
The Regional Advisor of World Vision, Miriam Iddrisu, has noted that unequal power relations between men and women often limit women's control over sexual activity and their ability to protect themselves against unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS.
Source: Spy Ghana
The Regional Advisor of World Vision, Miriam Iddrisu, has noted that unequal power relations between men and women often limit women's control over sexual activity and their ability to protect themselves against unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS.
Source: World Bulletin
A Nigerian court on Friday said the Lagos local government had acted correctly in banning Muslim headscarves (hijab) at public schools, a ruling that drew the ire of the city's Muslim community, which has vowed to appeal the decision.
Source: The Star
An operation is underway to identify and prosecute parents who have married off their schoolgoing girls, Lamu deputy commissioner Stanley Mutua has said.
Source: allAfrica
"Cultural practices and customary laws in Southern Africa Development Committee (SADC) limit women's ability to access, own and control means of production such as land and livestock."
Source: Star Africa
Member parliaments of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) have been urged to make every effort to stem the spread of terrorism and extremism and to continue protecting human rights, including those of women.
Source: Devex
Girls are capable of great things. When they are healthy and educated, they can transform the world around them. But girls are also regularly denied the opportunity to fulfill their potential, hemmed in by the realities of poverty and rampant inequality.
Source: The Guardian
Open any newspaper and violence towards women seems to be increasing by the day. It is time to confront the darkest impulses of the human heart.
Source: IBS News
Pregnant at 15, Samantha Yakubu* is in a fix. The 16-year-old boy she claims was responsible for her pregnancy has refused to accept her version of events, insisting that he was "not the only one who slept with her".
Source: Daily Times NG
The House of Representatives on Thursday deferred consideration of a proposed legislation seeking to enforce certain provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women.
Source: Premium Times
A female journalist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Solange Lusiku Nsimire, has won this year's Courage in Journalism Award.
Source: Ventures
Six African women have joined the group of final contenders vying for the Empretec Women in Business Awards, organised by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD).
Source: iol News
Arusha, Tanzania - Two Tanzanian women were hacked to death by men who accused them of casting spells that made them sexually impotent, police said on Friday, in the latest killings of alleged "witches".