Sources: The Herald
Ednah Masiyiwa, the director of the Women in Action Group, a lobby group for women's rights is probably the longest serving director in the women's movement. She has been with the organisation for 22 years, 12 of which she has spent at the helm of the organisation as a director. Ms Masiyiwa says her decision to hold the post for such a long time has not been motivated by the perceived grandeur - of four wheel drive vehicles, foreign trips and unlimited power perks normally associated with directors for NGOS.
Source: Daily Independent
Recently, United Nations (UN) hosted journalists from four States of Adamawa, Gombe, Plateau, Kaduna and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja at an interactive session to brainstorm on how to promote women's engagement in peace and security in Northern Nigeria. The training workshop was facilitated by the United Nations Women through its media consultant, Bronz and Onyx International Limited.
Source: UN Multimedia Women are often more affected than men by climate change, especially if during a natural disaster. That's according to the Deputy Executive Director of UN Women.
Source: SA News A Tshwane businesswoman has challenged women in leadership positions to act as a channel of uplifting other women who are less fortunate by creating opportunities for employment.
Source: The Guardian / IPP Media
Graca Machel, Nelson Mandela's widow and founder of the Graca Machel Trust has said since Tanzania is in the process of reviewing its constitution, oppressive laws on women and children should also be reviewed and amended Tanzania is among 20 leading countries in child marriage cases with statistics showing that for every five girls, two are married under the age of 18.
Source: The GW Hatchet
The Global Women's Institute will partner with international researchers over the next five years to study violence against women and girls in South Sudan, the University announced Tuesday.
Source: The Australian
THE world's foremost advocate for women's empowerment is urging Australia to make gender equality a key goal at this year's G20 or risk further entrenching global inequality.
Source: Times of Zambia / AllAfrica
NEW Faces, New Voices (NFNV) is a Pan-African advocacy group that focuses on expanding the role and influence of women in the financial sector.
Source: Government of Nigeria
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Zainab Maina has said that empowering the Nigerian woman politically and economically is key to achieving the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the country.
Source: The Guardian
World Bank report says mobile money and electronic transfers could bring financial services to 2.5 billion marginalised people
Source: The Guardian
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka was appointed United Nations under-secretary-general and executive director of UN Women in August 2013. As a South African government minister and deputy president, she led programmes to combat poverty and share the benefits of economic growth, with a particular focus on women. Actively involved in civil society and the struggle to end apartheid, she is a longtime champion of social justice, women’s rights, and gender equality.
Source: Inter Press Service
Growing up with five brothers, soccer-mad Majidah Nantanda had half a team to compete against at home in Makindye, a suburb in Uganda’s capital, Kampala. But at her school, in the 1990s, there were two sports rules: “Netball for the girls and football for the boys,” recalls the 32-year-old, as she stands on the sidelines of a boy’s game in Makindye.
Source: Development Diaries
Connected Development (CODE) with support from the New Venture Fund through the development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) brought together 17 young women from different spheres of life in Abuja, Nigeria, to build their capacities in identifying issues involved in overcoming barriers to girl child education.
Source: Feminist Majority Foundation
Approximately 63 percent of sexually active Cameroonian women who want to avoid pregnancy do not have access to a modern form of contraception, according to a recently released report by the Guttmacher Institute and the French Institut de Formation et de Recherche Démographiques (IFORD).
Source: Linked Local Network
Africa’s population will reach four billion by 2100, according to a report released by UNICEF early this week. As the population grows, more investment in maternal health and family planning resources will be needed to ensure women’s reproductive health.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed legislation this week criminalizing the transmission of HIV, a measure that allows doctors to violate confidentiality and disclose their patients’ HIV status without consent and calls for mandatory testing for pregnant women and their partners in violation of their human rights.
Source: Huffington Post
The deadliest Ebola outbreak on record has quickly spread across West Africa over the past few months, moving rapidly from Guinea into Liberia, Sierra Leone, and eventually Nigeria, with at least 2,127 suspected cases. First identified in March 2014, the virus has claimed the lives of 1,145 deaths, men, women and children alike, leaving governments and healthcare providers struggling to contain this relentless virus and avoid a globalized epidemic.
Source: The Guardian
Women do not seem to have a place in the pope's vision of a Catholic church that cares for the world's poor people
Source: Swazi Observer
"Violence against women, violence against our mothers and sisters has reached an unacceptable level and we all must join efforts to put this to an end," says Oniel Bestman, one of many men who participated in the One Billion Rising for Justice Campaign in Monrovia.
Source: The Point
FGM is no doubt one of the most controversial traditional practices affecting the health and right of women and girls in our society. FGM is found rotating between two key players of our society: the health workers and the religious leaders with each of this two giving out different opinions as regards FGM.