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.
Source: IPS News
Barbara Kemigisa used to call herself an "HIV/AIDS campaigner". These days she would rather be known as an "HIV/AIDS family planning campaigner". "We need to reduce unplanned pregnancies and the HIV infection rate in our country," Kemigisa told IPS during Uganda's first national family planning conference on July 28. "It's about dual protection."
Source: Huffington Post
The Obama administration is pushing for greater U.S. investment in Africa. But the great African summit, held in Washington recently, was largely theater; necessary and important, but still a work of fiction.
Source: The Guardian
Sudanese women contribute greatly to their communities during war, but they have been left out of the formal peace process
Source: IPS News
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: Daily News
A coalition of groups advocating for women's rights said Monday it is necessary to include women in the upcoming governor reshuffle after a minister said women would only be appointed as "deputies and assistants".
Source: Peace FM
The Ark foundation Ghana, an advocacy-based Women's Rights Non-governmental Organization whose primary purpose is to seek the promotion and protection of the rights of women and children has embarked on Young Urban Women's Project to create awareness on the need for young women in the Urban Communities to be economic independent.