Source: The McGill International Review
“Break the girls, because if you break the girls, you break the men.” This was the message from Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir’s government to its officers on the ground at the outset of the country’s 2018 protests against the al-Bashir regime. While a dictatorship has governed Sudan for the last thirty years, 2019 marked the end of al-Bashir’s brutal regime, along with the slow change towards improving the socially and politically sanctioned abuse of women’s rights. However, this landmark feat came to a crashing halt in late 2021 when a military coup took power away from the transitional council put in place to govern the country towards a civilian-led democratic government. Both the 2019 and 2021 revolutions were unprecedented in the foundational role Sudanese women played as drivers of the revolution, protesting against decades of corruption, socioeconomic grievances, and gendered violence in the hopes of changing the status quo.
Source: DW
Interview avec Diene Keïta, directrice exécutive adjointe de l’agence des Nations Unies pour la santé sexuelle et reproductive, sur les grossesses non-intentionnelles.
Source: Le 360 Afrique
Le Président gabonais a été distingué par ONU Femmes pour son engagement en faveur des droits des femmes au Gabon.
Source: VivAfrik
La Banque Africaine de Développement (BAD), en collaboration avec les Fonds d’investissement climatiques et le Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Protection de la Nature et du Développement Durable du Cameroun a organisé, les 4 et 5 avril 2022, à Ebolowa (sud), un atelier de validation du plan d’action “genre” du plan d’investissement forestier du pays.
Source: Thaqaf
Face à la Directrice régionale du Fonds des Nations Unies pour la Population en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre (UNFPA WCARO), Mme Argentina Matavel qu’elle a reçue dans son bureau vendredi 15 avril 2022, Mme Savia Mint N’Tahah qui vient de prendre fonction comme Ministre de l’Action Sociale, de l’Enfance et de la Famille, a déroulé les ambitieux programmes de son département au profit de la femme, de la jeune fille et de l’enfant.
Source : Africa News
On an island on Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo row after row of coffee bushes are bringing forth a rich harvest of berries.And the main beneficiaries will be women, the outcome of an equity project in a sector where women are notoriously sidelined and under-paid.
Source : UN Women
Violence against women in elections (VAWiE) is one of the major hindrances to their engagement with electoral processes and taking on leadership roles; this includes physical, verbal and psychological violence in the private and public space, and more recently cyber-based abuse.
SOURCE: PREMIUM TIMES
A gender-focused media group – St. Ives Communications, founder of Women Radio, has said the endemic corrupt practices in Nigeria negatively affect women and girls.
The group listed some of the major areas where Nigerian women are more impacted by the consequences of corruption to include employment scandals, health care corruption, justice system, among others.
SOURCE: UN NEWS SERVICE
Women’s rights are human rights, and universal in times of war and peace, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Wednesday, urging ambassadors to ensure accountability for conflict-related sexual violence.
Pramila Patten, the Secretary-General's Special Representative working to end rape as a weapon of war, was addressing a high-level debate on strengthening accountability as a means to deliver justice for survivors and prevent future violence.
Source: Leadership
Today marks the eighth anniversary of the mass abduction of school girls in Chibok town which brought the once obscure Borno State community to global attention. On the night of that day today, Boko Haram terrorists invaded the Government Girls' Secondary School, Chibok, and abducted a total of 276 schoolgirls from their dormitory.
Source: VOA News
Somalia’s first women-run radio and television outlet has opened in the capital, Mogadishu. United Nations-supported Bilan Media will produce content aimed at addressing issues affecting women and champion women’s rights in the conservative country.
Source: VOA Afrique
Selon les initiatrices du projet, l’objectif est de combler un vide dans un paysage médiatique où les questions chères aux femmes ne sont pas abordées en détail.
Source: Chez Vlane
La directrice régionale du Fonds des Nations Unies pour la Population (UNFPA) pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre, Mme Argentina Matavel, a entamé dimanche 10 avril 2022 une visite de travail de cinq jours en Mauritanie qui assure la présidence tournante du Projet Autonomisation des Femmes et Dividende Démographique au Sahel (SWEDD) et préparer en même temps le nouveau programme quinquennal de coopération Mauritanie-UNFPA.
Source: SciDev.Net
Les femmes sont souvent les principales pourvoyeuses d’eau dans les ménages; mais la pandémie leur a compliqué la tâche.
Source: Sahara Media
La ministre mauritanienne de l’action sociale, de l’enfance et de la famille, Savia mint N’Tehah a déclaré que son département œuvrera à dynamiser les mécanismes de la protection des droits des femmes et leur autonomisation économique, considérant qu’ils sont encore en dessous du niveau demandé.
Source: The Namibian
Sixty-five percent of Namibian social media users have experienced online abuse. The founder of the Internet Society Namibia Chapter, Nashilongo Gervasius, revealed this in a report released yesterday.
Source: The Namibian
Sixty-five percent of Namibian social media users have experienced online abuse. The founder of the Internet Society Namibia Chapter, Nashilongo Gervasius, revealed this in a report released yesterday.
SOURCE: This Day
Experts have identified key strategies that can be adopted towards addressing systemic gender bias, stereotyping, discrimination, and gender inequalities that exist in Nigeria, especially in access and use of formal financial services.
SOURCE: The Exchange
‘M-mama’ service will now be scaled up from one Tanzanian region to cover more than 50% of the national population across 15 regions.
Source : All Africa
Although Somalia now has a quota system for female lawmakers, women are frequently held back from pursuing leadership roles due to pervasive cultural and social barriers.