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.
Source: Inquisitr
Women in Egypt feel sexually harassed while walking down the streets and two filmmakers decided to document what it is like to be a female, in this highly repressed African country. The simple act of going out in public can be a dangerous proposition in a country that has become known for it's violent acts against women, including rape.
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.
A Finn of Somali origin wants to run as a candidate in the Somali presidential election in 2016. Fadumo Dayib is currently studying public administration at Harvard, but she thinks that Somalia is now ready for a female president.
Source: IPS News
With the United Nations' post-2015 development agenda currently under discussion, civil society actors in Europe are calling for a firmer stance on human rights and gender equality, including control of assets by women.
Source: Human Rights Watch Soldiers from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have sexually abused and exploited vulnerable Somali women and girls on their bases in Mogadishu, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Troop-contributing countries, the African Union (AU), and donors to AMISOM should urgently address these abuses and strengthen procedures inside Somalia to seek justice.
Source: VibeGhana Mr Kojo Bonsu, Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), says government would not shirk its responsibility on girl-child education.
Source: Daily News Gender Based Violence (GBV) is a grave reality in the lives of many women and children. It is often directed against a person on the basis of gender and constitutes a breach of the fundamental right to life, liberty, security, dignity, equality between women and men, non-discrimination and physical and mental integrity.
Source: Mmegi Online As many as 53 out of 100 women, have at one stage or another been forced into unprotected sex by their partners. This was revealed by gender officer at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Irene Ramatala, at a New Directions in Global Health seminar held in Sowa Town, which addressed gender based violence (GBV) and its links to HIV/AIDS infection. Ramatala noted that the figures were from a 2010 study.
Source: UN News Centre Women are crucial partners in peacebuilding and must be guaranteed the safe political space, including a seat at the "negotiating table," to participate in all steps of post-conflict reconciliation and recovery processes, stressed high-level United Nations officials today at a Headquarters event.
Source: Daily Times The rescuing of a 13-year-old girl from a forced marriage in north Zambia recently has ignited calls for invigorated efforts to put an end to child marriages in the southern African nation.
Source: AllAfrica
It is discouraging and annoying to be forced to listen to government functionaries making excuses for inaction in promoting and upholding human rights and more so when such excuses are unsubstantiated or not well researched.
Source: The Guardian
About one in 10 girls around the world experiences serious sexual violence, the UN children's agency has said in a major report detailing the "staggering extent" of sexual, physical and emotional abuse faced byyoung people.
Source: AllAfrica
The world seems to be losing the battle against Ebola. Who is to blame? Critics say the international community is not doing enough to curb the disease.
Source: SABC News
Human Rights Activist, Graca Machel, has again highlighted the plight of Africa's most vulnerable women and children. She was speaking in Durban after receiving the prestigious Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation, on behalf of conflict management institution, Accord.