Source: Devex Impact
The Hunger Games, the famous multimedia franchise, is not far from the truth. It's no myth that being food-secure is essential for human dignity and to ensure livelihoods and wellbeing.
Source: Time
New data reveals shocking rates of child marriage and female genital mutilation. UNICEF released staggering new data Tuesday outlining the prevalence of child marriage and genital mutilation that continues to impact hundreds of millions of girls and women around the world.
Source: The Guardian
NIGERIAN Women under the aegis of the Nigerian Women in Diaspora Leadership Forum (NWDLF), Tuesday held a rally to mark 100 days of the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls with a 90- minute demonstration opposite the Nigerian High Commission.
Source: Digital Journal
Tennis star launches a campaign with Join My Village to provide expanded education opportunities for young women in Africa; challenges her fans around the world to help
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: The New York Times
One day in the summer of 1974, I was getting ready to go to the swimming pool with a mixed-gender group of friends when my mother took me aside. "Remember," she said, "that a well-brought-up young man does not ogle women."
Source: The Nigerian Observer
The role of women in Maternal Newborn and Child Health Advocacy and Services cannot be over-emphasized. Below are six steps suggested by Alice Welbourn, Founding Director of Salamander Trust.
Source: The Guardian
On eve of Girl Summit, ODI reveals trend of girls entering early marriages followed by swift divorces to migrate for family's sake
Source: Zambia Daily Mail International Labour Organisation (ILO) assistant director-general and regional director for Africa, Aeneas Chuma, has urged countries to tap into women's tremendous potential as economic forces.
Source: The Star The Government has allocated Sh400 million to finance the sanitary towels programme in primary schools in the country, Cabinet Secretary for Education, Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi has said.
Source: Sudan Tribune South Sudan's president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has called for girls to have equal opportunity to education in the country. "When we talk about education, we must have to offer similar rights to our children without isolating our young daughters from equal access to education," Kiir said.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation In Ethiopia, girls are abducted on their way to school, raped and then married to their captors. In Ghana, they are married to traditional priests and become "slaves to the gods" to pay for their family's sins. In Cameroon, girls are promised in marriage to settle debts while still in the womb.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Economic inequality is deeply rooted in gender inequality. Yet, most economic policies put forward by governments and other institutions continue to fail at addressing the particular ways in which their actions negatively affect women and girls; and reproduce poverty and exploitation around the world.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail About 200 women entrepreneurs from all the 10 provinces in Zambia have converged at Mulungushi International Conference for a national women jubilee expo running under the theme, 'Women as change agents for national development and prosperity'.
Source: Voice of America U.N. Human Rights experts are expressing concern about the widespread violence and discrimination to which women in conflict-ridden Central African Republic and Syria are subjected. C.A.R. and Syria are two of eight countries examined by the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, which monitors States Compliance to existing rules.
Source: Al-Warham Weekly
Reem Leila reports on the National Council for Women's strategy to combat sexual violence.
Source: New Era
Women in Keetmanshoop have grabbed the opportunity to become part of the mass housing initiative by learning how to construct houses from ground level all the way to roof level and are even installing the plumbing and electrical wiring of the houses they build. The Women in Construction initiative has received at least five of the 320 houses to be constructed during the first phase of the mass housing project here.
Source: NDTV
Women and children are being kidnapped by armed gangs and forced to work as sex slaves in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Wednesday.
Source: The Herald
Zimbabwean women have a huge and raw appetite to succeed and make a difference in the nation. This is a conclusion I have reached after attending several seminars and workshops and also interacting with women at all levels in society.
Source: Ghana News Agency
President John Dramani Mahama has appointed 17 women to serve as Ministers of State, Deputy Ministers and Regional Ministers, in the final list announced by government.