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.
Source: Xperedon South Sudan's decision to ratify UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women is a step in the right direction, says aid organisation.
Source: Standard Media Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero's wife, Susan, has joined campaigns to fight early pregnancy among school girls and reduce dropout rates.
Source: Sudan Tribune The general education minister in South Sudan's Jonglei state, Tut Kuony has decried the high numbers of schools closed in the region, disclosing that only 52 were in operation.
Source: Radio Cadena Agramonte Minister in the Presidency Responsible for Women, Susan Shabangu called on society to eradicate violence against women and children, media outlets report today.
African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Somalia rape women seeking medicine on their bases and routinely pay teenage girls for sex, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday.
Source: RoyalGazette
Moli Ntuli will always remember June, 1976.
The high school teacher witnessed police fire live bullets on thousands of Soweto students as they protested against apartheid in her native South Africa on June 16.
Source: AllAfrica
As Tunisia prepares for the October 26th legislative elections, the small number of women at the head of the electoral lists is drawing criticism.
Source: AllAfrica
Morocco's Renaissance and Virtue Party just repeated its call for a quota of seats in parliament to be allocated to ulema.
Source: Forbes
In June this year, She Leads Africa, a Nigerian-based social enterprise that aims to foster business growth in Africa by providing female startup entrepreneurs with the knowledge, networks, and financing to build and scale strong businesses, launched a business pitch competition.
Source: Huffington Post
In a township called Khayelitsha, a woman wakes well before dawn to catch a bus that will carry her to the beautiful home in Cape Town where her employer/boss/master wants his tea in bed by 7 a.m. That is what "post-apartheid" South Africa still looks like today.
Source: Ventures Africa
In 2010, the African Union (AU) took a bold initiative on that year’s International Day for Rural Women to officially launch the African Women’s Decade (AWD), an initiative to advance gender equality through the acceleration and implementation of global and regional commitments on gender equality and women empowerment.
Source: African Women Leaders' Network
In 2010, with support from AFP and the Packard Foundation, AWLN was launched to provide a platform for strong women champions who are informed and persuasive to advocate for funds and policies for family planning commodities and services to be made available to all women.
Source: NGO News Africa
The Women In Sports Association of Ghana (WISA), a non-governmental organization for the promotion and projection of sporting activities involving women would be launched in Accra on September 27 at the Trinity United Church at Legon.
Source: IRIN
Julie Francis's self-imposed curfew starts when the sun sets. The widowed mother of four has been living at the UN base outside Malakal since December, one of more than 17,000 people who have fled there to escape episodic fighting in South Sudan's Upper Nile State capital. But the overcrowded camp is not without its own dangers, especially for women and girls.