Source: Mail and Guardian Africa
Mothers are “hedging their bets”, teaching their sons that beating your wife is wrong, but “preparing” daughters psychologically for the worst.
Source: Government of Ghana /AllAfrica
Ghana is a signatory to various international and regional protocols such as the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Africa Protocol on Women's Rights, for example, which aim to promote women's rights--yet compliance with such protocols is hardly evident in any of the country's development sectors, including oil and gas.
Source: Reuters
Teenager Lydia, 16, and her young siblings Blessing, 11, Pauline, nine, and Paul, five, can only watch, sobbing, as the body of their mother is taken away in a plastic sheet by masked men resembling crop-sprayers, the standard way to dispose of Ebola victims.
Source: The New Times
The International Trade Centre (ITC) has launched a new initiative expected to push for increased participation of women entrepreneurs in public procurement.
Source: Ventures Africa
The World Economic Development Forum (WEDF) kicked off in Rwanda yesterday; this being the first time the high‐profile event is held in Africa.
Source: AllAfrica
Within the broader discussion above, under investment from the public and private sectors is the underlying cause for the dismal performance of agriculture. Financial Inclusion (FI), which promotes access and the use of high-quality financial services, particularly among the poor and women, is crucial to achieving inclusive growth.
Source: Premium Times
Four Nigerian women have sued the Abuja Environment Protection Board, AEPB, the Nigerian Police, the Nigerian Army and other government security agencies working in Abuja at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS court.
Source: Shabait
President Isaias Afwerki today met with delegates of representatives of African women's associations to the 7th Congress of the National Union of Eritrean Women (NUEW).
Source: The Japan Times
Japan is an ideal model for countries racked by conflict and poverty because of how it resurrected itself from the devastation of war and achieved peace, the first Arab woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize says.
Source: IMF
The global economy could be greatly boosted by unleashing the economic power of women, who remain the world's largest excluded group, the head of the IMF told a high level gathering in Japan.
Source: Un News Centre
The United Nations Security Council has long been a bastion for men selected to represent their countries on what many consider to be the Organization's most powerful body. But now, women ambassadors are filling over a third of the Council's 15 seats, making history at the venerable institution and sending out a strong message about women's empowerment.
Source: SA News
There is a need to move away from the view that violence against women and children is a government or criminal justice system problem, says Minister in the Presidency Responsible for Women, Susan Shabangu.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
International aid organisation CARE International has welcomed the decision by South Sudan's parliament to ratify the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
Source: IPS
It is a long, 14-hour drive from Niger's capital city Niamey to the village of Bande. And the ride is a dreary one as the roadside is bare. The occasional, lone goat herder is spotted every few kilometres and the sightings become a cause of both confusion and excitement since there aren't any trees, or watering holes in sight.
Members of the African National Congress Women’s League have picketed the Oscar Pistorius trial calling for an end to violence against women.
Source: The Standard At least six out of every ten girls miss school during menstruation because they cannot afford sanitary towels, according to United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef). It is estimated that an average girl loses more than a full month of classes in a school year.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation While trying to empower women, it is essential not to marginalise men so to avoid an increase in acts of violence against women, a senior U.N. advisor said.
Source: The Standard At the tender age of 7, Serem (not her real name) has already been booked for marriage by a man too old enough to be her grandfather. Soon she will be joining her husband's Harlem of six wives to become the seventh.
Source: Nigerian Bulletin The Federal government has on Friday in Rivers state inaugurated the construction of a Federal Junior Model Secondary School in Ogu Bolu Local Council of the state.
Source: allAfrica In an effort to safeguard the rights of couple in marriage, particularly women, activists in Zanzibar are calling for the review of Kadhis laws to introduce marital contract.