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.
Source: Huffington Post
Nelson Mandela once said: "Whenever I am with young people, I feel like a recharged battery." I couldn't agree more, after having spent the last couple of days with a good bunch of the Women Deliver Young Leaders at the Partnership on Maternal, Child and Newborn Health (PMNCH) Partners' Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Source: The New Times
President Paul Kagame has said that women's 64 per cent representation in Rwanda's Lower House should not be seen as an end in itself with regard to women empowerment in the country.
Source: Allafrica
It has been announced that the Ministry of Gender and Development, the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism and the Women's NGO Secretariat (WONGOSOL), working with the Access to Information Project of The Carter Center, will release the study "Women and the Right of Access to Information in Liberia."
Source: Daily News Egypt
On Monday President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with Mohamed Fayek, president of the government-backed National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), to discuss ways to improve personal and political freedom in Egypt, and the state of the country's prisons.
Source: Leadership
The Council of State said yesterday that it had been assured by the military that the over 200 schoolgirls held captive by the Boko Haram sect since they were abducted on April 14 this year will regain their freedom very soon.
Source: GhanaWeb
The Executive Director of the Obaapa Development Foundation, Nanahemaa Adjoa Awindor, is pushing for stricter punishment of males who impregnate teenage girls.