Source: Al Jazeera
Mobile and internet technology can help African women become more financially independent. In the past two decades, there has been a lot of talk about the transformative power of technology in society, yet little attention has been paid to an emerging digital gap.
Source: New Internationalist
This month the UK government will be hosting its first ever Girl Summit in a bid to mobilize domestic and global efforts to end – within a generation – female genital mutilation (FGM) and child, early and forced marriage (CEFM). This isn't going to be easy, given the wide-spread occurrence of these practices, and the economic and societal pressures that continue to undermine gender equality in many countries. Globally, nearly three million girls and women a year are at risk of FGM.
Source: Times of Zambia
Minister of Gender and Child Development (MGCD), Inonge Wina has called on line ministries to support gender mainstreaming by including it in their budgets.
Source: The New Republic
The Ministry of Gender and Development has said there are 2,652 cases of domestic violence since the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Violence against Women was signed into law. Making the assertion Monday July 7, 2014 during a one-day media awareness working session on the draft domestic bill with journalists at the Ministry, Madam Annette Kiawu, Deputy Minister for Technical Services, said the figure of rape leads with 900 on domestic crime-related list covering the period of 2009 to 2013.
Source: Nigerian Tribune
INADEQUATE funding has been identified as one of the major challenges confronting the National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), Abuja, in the implementation of its mandate, especially in the area of training and empowerment of women.
Source: CIO East Africa
ITU and UN Women are partnering to launch a new global technology award that recognizes outstanding contributions from women and men in leveraging the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to promote gender equality.
Source: Business Standard
33% reservation to women in Parliament has the potential to be a "game changer" as not only will such a step change patriarchal mindsets but also boost pro-women legislation, feels senior UN official Lakshmi Puri.
Source: Times of Zambia
FIRST Lady Christine Kaseba has called for the introduction of a new law to criminalise perpetrators of early marriages to help curb the vice.Dr Kaseba said criminalising the act was the only sure way of fighting early marriages to ensure the protection of the girl-child as well as seeing a reduction in such practices.
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.