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.
Source: Reuters
Domestic violence, mainly against women and children, kills far more people than wars and is an often overlooked scourge that costs the world economy more than $8 trillion a year, experts said on Tuesday.
Source: Your Middle East
Since 1990, the government has been investing about 5.8 percent of its GDP in education. As a result, the levels of education are comparable to those in developed countries. However, many women are unaware of their rights, and thus, unknowingly accept social prejudices.
Source: Africa Renewal
DAILY, millions of women in Africa are engaged in one form of trade or another, either within their countries or across national borders. They buy and sell everything from agricultural produce to manufactured products.
Source: The Point
The Office of the Vice President, in collaboration with partners including grassroots organizations, NGOs, CSOs, the public and private sector and the UNDP, is convening a Development Forum on the theme "Closing the Gender Gap - the realities in The Gambia".
Source: The Herald
Global institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have over the years developed anti-poverty initiatives across the developing world that focus on gender-based strategies as a way of eradicating poverty, achieving equality and empowerment.
Source: Devex
The 21st century poses many challenges that require new ways of thinking, none more important than the economic role of women in a rapidly changing world.