Three men received Harsh Jail Terms on Thursday for Sexual Assault - but this is Just the Beginning, Say Anti-Sexual Harassment Groups.
Source: BBC
Coudy Binta De's eyes light up when she talks about how she first became fascinated with computers. The 24-year-old says that as a young girl she went to visit her mother in work at one of the Senegalese government's first computer departments.
Source: African Seer
The first time Alfred went to an HIV voluntary testing center, the healthcare provider did not treat him well. As a gay man, his story is not so rare.
Source: Business Ghana
The Foundation for Security and Development in Africa (FOSDA), on Thursday urged more women to contest the forthcoming district assemblies' elections to enable them participate actively in policy formulation and decision-making processes.
Source: MANA Online
Chikwawa, August 4: Low self esteem is said to be amongst the major challenges causing girls to venture into immoral behaviors hence many dropouts in the districts of Salima and Chikwawa.
Source: SA News
This is an auspicious year for our country. It is 20 years since our nation emerged from the shadow of apartheid and also the 60th milestone of extraordinary women who fought for our democracy.
Source: Health-e (Cape Town)
Our doctor-turned-blogger continues her rural awakening as she is confronted by illiteracy and mother-to-child HIV transmission on a long night shift in the wards.She looks up at me and nods, but I'm almost sure she doesn't understand.
"You need to have this operation because the baby is getting tired," I say. "Sign here that you agree... "
Source: allAfrica Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA) and other civil society organisations (CSOs) that champion human rights have strongly condemned some journalists who take photos of various gender-based violence incidents against journalism ethics.
Source: Sun News Online Our nation, Nigeria, though today mired internationally, near-pigeonholed by the sensationalism of the misguided Boko Haram and their torrid assaults to our North East, nonetheless is on the financial and social upswing.
Source: GhanaWeb Hajia Hamdatu Ibrahim, National Women's Organizer of the Convention People's Party (CPP), has urged civil society organizations (CSOs), the Media, and state human rights institutions, to educate men on women's rights to participate in active politics.
Source: The Star
The job is not done yet, says KATJA IVERSEN, the Chief Executive Officer of Women Deliver, a global advocacy body for women and girl's health based in New York. She spoke with Star Newspaper's journalist JOHN MUCHANGI during the recent Partners Forum in Johannesburg on the next global development agenda after end of MDGs next year.
Source: Thomson Reuters A recent report from Rwanda's Department of Lands and Mapping found that women, either individually or jointly, own most of the registered plots of land in the capital, Kigali.
Source: NewsOne Focusing on the importance of having a substantive conversation about girls' education in Africa Wednesday afternoon, First Lady Michelle Obama (pictured) spoke with an audience of 500 participants in President Barack Obama's Mandela Fellowship for Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) summit before meeting with a select group during a roundtable.
Source: The Telegraph Across the globe, there is an increasing awareness that the fight for gender equality starts at school. In Britain, we (rightly) fret about the lack of girls choosing science and technology subjects – shutting the door to well-paid profession such as engineers or computer programmers.
Source: GhanaWeb A special school established to provide access and quality education for girls, particularly those from rural and poor homes, has been opened in Kpandai in the Northern Region.
Source: African Brains The agenda on women empowerment and financial inclusion will receive a further boost as leaders from civil society, government, academia and business converge in Lusaka, Zambia for the 3rd African Women's Economic Summit ("AWES").
Source: allAfrica Africa will celebrate on 31 July the African Women's Day, which was declared by the African Union after the first Pan-African Women's Conference in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1962.
Source: allAfrica A few years ago, there would not have been a girl summit on child marriage. Many people dismissed the practice as tradition or too tricky a problem to overcome, so the issue never made it to the top of the agenda. While many still think these things, the world has come a long way in tackling the issue.
Source: allAfrica The UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) says it takes seriously, the high prevalence of various forms of violence against women and girls in Liberia.
Source: GhanaWeb
The African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA) on Monday said abortion was legally permissible in Ghana debunking the notion that it was illegal.
Grounds for legal abortion include conception resulting from rape; defilement of a female idiot or incest; when there is risk to the life of the woman or likely injury to her mental or physical health or where there is substantial risk or serious abnormality or disease with the foetus, Nana Oye Lithur, AWLA Executive Member, told a public forum on: "Unsafe Abortion in Ghana".