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.
Source: SBS A former South Sudanese refugee has walked across New South Wales as part of a campaign to raise money for girls' education in his home country.
Source: Nigerian Tribune The Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development is to partner with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), in the fight against the growing cases of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and HIV/AIDS in the country.
Source: Quartz Family planning counts for a lot when it comes to development in poor countries. It lowers mortality among women and infants, improves educational outcomes, and slows population growth. It also makes it easier for women to enter the workforce, which acts as an economic booster shot even in wealthy nations such as Japan.
Source: Sierra Express Media As part of the United States Embassy's commitment in the development of the Media in Sierra Leone, the Public Affairs Office of the United States Embassy in Freetown has selected Female Broadcast Journalist and General Manager of SKYY Radio, Tiana Alpha, to cover the first U.S. Commitment to Africa Reporting Tour in Washington D.C, which will occur at the end of July and beginning of August.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail Africa can only sustain its successes if its material conditions ensure that women participate fully alongside men in the production and development of the continent, says former prime minister of Mozambique Luisa Diogo.
Source: Times Live Skin lightening is about fashion, not inferiority -- and it is an issue ripe with hypocrisy.