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.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail Founder of 'New Faces, New Voices' Graca Machel, says women should form strong networks to enable them influence change among policy makers.
Source: allAfrica The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has reiterated the need for countries to place more value and also invest in girl-child education.
Source: allAfrica For the oil and gas sector to deliver on development outcomes, gender considerations must receive adequate attention, Mrs Patricia Blankson Akakpo, a gender activist of the Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), has noted.
Source: Star Africa Malawi is hosting a meeting of ministers responsible for gender/women affairs in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) that is reviewing progress made by member states in implementing the region's gender programme during the past year.
Source: IPS News Heightening their campaign to eradicate violence against women and girls, United Nations agencies and civil groups have called for increased action to end child marriage and female genital mutilation.
Source: IRIN News Rates of sexual violence in post-war Liberia are still "extremely high" according to a recently published report by UK-based think tank the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).
Source: Al Jazeera A Sudanese woman who was spared a death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity and then barred from leaving Sudan, has flown into Rome on an Italian government plane en route to the US, officials say.
Source: IRIN News A new Ugandan sex-education campaign to reduce teen pregnancy, maternal mortality among young women and girls, and the cost of post-abortion medical care, is generating heated debate.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation The third Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF) was held at the end of May this year. SIF is a space that aims to deepen discussions on how internet freedom can promote economic and social development worldwide.
Source: allAfrica Action Aid Liberia in collaboration with the Mano River Youth Parliament has officially launched a safe city campaign for violence against women in Liberia. The organization says women in the Liberian society face numerous challenges, including rape, sexual harassment and abuse, among others, noting that these attacks on women occur due to lack of proper protection.
Source: allAfrica To commemorate this year's International Day for the African Child, stakeholders gathered recently in Lagos to discuss how to provide the girl child with unrestricted access to education of good quality.
Source: New Vision Government in conjunction with SNV Uganda has started skilling pupils in making sanitary pads to curb female pupils' absenteeism from school during menstrual periods.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail Minister of Gender and Child Development Inonge Wina has called on Bank of Zambia (BoZ) governor Michael Gondwe to impress upon financial institutions to make loans accessible to women for economic empowerment.
Source: allAfrica The United States Ambassador accredited to Liberia, Deborah Malac, is calling on the Government of Liberia to prosecute perpetrators of sexual base violence in the country. Ambassador Malac said perpetrators should not go with impunity, but be made to face the law to curtail the wave of violence against women and young girls here.