Source: UN News Centre
The appointment of a presidential adviser on conflict-related sexual violence and child recruitment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) marks "a new dawn" in tackling these scourges, senior United Nations officials said today.
Source: The Guardian
In two classrooms in Ghana's Greater Accra region, solar-powered computers project animated videos broadcast live by satellite on to walls. Pupils at Mataheko primary school are taking part in a lesson in addition and subtraction based on the price of Spider-Man rucksacks and of dresses, and reciting songs about skiing for verb practice.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Women in the Group of 20 (G20) leading economies will not be paid as much as men until 2089, said a report published by Oxfam on Monday.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail Statistics show that one in three girls around the world is denied an education due to poverty, violence, discrimination and harmful traditional practices.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail As Zambia grapples with the thorny vice of early marriages, the Ministry of Education has noted that the number of schoolgirls getting pregnant has reduced since the year 2011.
Source: Daily News Egypt Nazra for Feminist Studies denounced in an online statement Sunday the physical assaults on female human rights activists, including Nahid Sherif and Fikreya Mohamed, experienced.
Source: allAfrica The Ministry of Gender and Development is urging the Liberian media to help provide the platform for citizens both in rural and urban communities to see the need for the passage of the draft bill on domestic violence.
Source: Leadership The minister of women affairs and social development, Zainab Maina, has reiterated the commitment of the federal government to the economic empowerment of women in the country.
Source: AllAfrica Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl-child education campaigner, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, has called on Boko Haram terrorists to free the abducted Chibok school girls.
Source: Coast Week Top African and international musicians will perform in Nairobi in October at Plan International girls' rights concert in support of the African girl's education, the charity organization said on Friday.
Source: The Swazi Observer It was in November 2010 that Hlobisile Ndlovu, while she was still Minister of Sports, Culture and Youth Affairs, caused controversy by saying 'when a woman says no to sexual advances, she actually means yes'.
Source: The New York Times It has been almost three months since Islamic militants in northern Nigeria attacked a school that was giving exams and kidnapped more than 250 girls — some of the brightest and most ambitious teenagers in the region.
Source: IPS News Women's rights activists in the Gambia are insisting that more than 30 years of campaigning to raise awareness should be sufficient to move the government to outlaw female genital mutilation (FGM).
Source: UNFPA
As the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) draws near, advocates are intensifying efforts to improve maternal and newborn survival.
Source: Daily News Egypt
North African countries are approaching universal levels of access to primary education, with an enrolment rate of 99% in 2012, compared to 80% in 1990, the United Nations' 2014 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Report showed.
Source: Daily Nation
In a politically charged environment, good things can easily go unnoticed. For the women's movement in Kenya, June 18, 2014 was a good day.
Source: allAfrica
For 22-year-old Moselyn Muchena, a final year computer science student at the University of Zimbabwe, it seemed obvious to create a mobile application offering easy access to services in the local catering industry, largely because of the huge number of female entrepreneurs in that sector.
Source: PBS
After gaining its independence three years ago, South Sudan got a rush of media attention. But the continued internal fighting has cast the nascent country in a harsh light. The women at the Roots Project are hoping their handiwork and cooperation will show a different, more promising side of South Sudan.
Source: New Era
The Commission of the African Union has heaped praise on the Namibian government for taking bold steps in tackling the upsurge in gender-based violence (GBV).
Source: Voices of Africa
Friday 4 July, Independence Day. There will be speeches, celebrations and fireworks. But these celebrations will be taking place on the other side of the world from the US, because on Friday, the central African country of Rwanda will mark its own Liberation Day.