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.
Source: The Guardian
As young feminists, we often hear that the rights of girls need to be recognised, their voices amplified and their needs met. We are told that when girls are empowered, they can change their communities and the world.
Source: The Guardian
Parents are taking their daughters to remote regions of Kenya to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) in secret, according to the head of the country's new FGM prosecution unit.
Source: allAfrica
All pregnant, HIV positive women will go onto lifelong antiretroviral treatment from January, Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announced in his health budget vote yesterday.
Source: AlJazeera
For a continent of its size and history, Africa does offer plenty of interesting topics for popular creative non-fiction. The majority of creative non-fiction books about African society that have enjoyed international success are by non-Africans or by white Africans.
Source: Vanguard
The First Lady, Patience Jonathan, arrived Windhoek, Namibia, on Saturday night to join her counterparts from Africa to examine the status of cancer in the continent.
Source: Blouin News
As certain African countries ramp up their efforts to develop information technology markets and communications technology markets that compete with the businesses of other continents, efforts are coinciding to make sure that women are a part of the burgeoning sectors.