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".
Source: allAfrica The actions of violence in Angola represent criminal offence punishable by law, said the national police director of Criminal Investigation Department, who defended awareness in order to decrease the evil.
Source: Miami Herald As president and founder of the South Florida Girl Up, a club of teenage activists in Florida for the Girl Up Campaign of the United Nations Foundation, I want to add my voice to that of other activists with whom I've collaborated to create and support the first clubs in Mexico, Ecuador, and Colombia.
Source: allAfrica 16 year-old Anjola Olude (not real names) is a SSS2 student of Igboora High School located in Ibarapa South Local Government of Oyo State. As a young girl, she knows the importance of her health and the many hazards of toilet infection hence she is always very careful in using public toilets. Anjola is a very brilliant student who is always eager to learn. In her School like many public schools, the toilet facility is not in place.
Source: The Nigerian Observer "Harmful practices" means all behaviour, attitudes and/or practices which negatively affect the fundamental rights of women and girls, such as their right to life, health, dignity, education and physical integrity.
Source: openDemocracy
The strategy of gender sensitisation encourages critical reflection on prevalent assumptions to mount a challenge to gender stereotypes. Can it undermine embedded beliefs? The success of gender sensitisation programmes in contexts such as Zambia is an urgent question.
Source: allAfrica Top development journals are largely managed and written by academics from the global North, a recent study claims. When it comes to scholarly texts on gender and development, this is certainly true.
Source: Devex A month ago, London drew the world's attention to sexual violence in conflict, with former United Kingdom Foreign Secretary William Hague and Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie leading a huge public campaign to end impunity.
Source: allAfrica
The advent of the 22nd July revolution has indeed ushered in tremendous development in all sectors of the Gambian society, especially in the area of women empowerment.
Source: The Economist
FIRST the good news: according to a report published on July 22nd by UNICEF, the share of the world's girls who are subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) is around a third lower today than it was three decades ago.
Source: Nehanda Radio
Real Opportunities for Transformation Support (ROOTS), a youth driven organisation advocating for economic justice for young people will be launching a campaign to end early, forced child marriages in Zimbabwe.
Source: The Guardian
Men, women and children are being kidnapped and held for months as slaves by militias in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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: allAfrica Those of us who have been fortunate enough to get an education know the power that education has to transform life.
Source: allAfrica After struggling with several problems Faress Banda, 16, who was at Chitunda Primary School in the area of Sub Traditional Authority (STA) Mnyanja in Kasungu district decided to quit school and see how she would go on with life.