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.
Source: The Star
At the African Union Assembly in Maputo in 2003, African heads of state were concerned that 30 per cent of Africans were severely undernourished and that the continent was the largest recipient of food aid. And they pledged to act.
- As Burundi heads towards the 2015 general elections, and despite a quota of 30 percent women’s representation in parliament, women in this southeast African nation feel that they are yet to have a significant say in the management of their country.
Source: Daily Independent
Sixty-three women and girls kidnapped by Boko Haram last month in Nigeria escaped from their captors and have returned to their burnt village, a security source and a local vigilante fighting the militant group said.
Source: SAnews
"Women give life, and the right to life is one that we all hold sacred", highlighted Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa last week at the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health 2014 Forum. With less than 500 days remaining before the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) deadline, the Forum reminded governments from around the globe that the fight against high maternal and childhood mortality is far from over.
Source: Biztech Africa
The Deputy Director of the British Department for International Development in Ghana (DfID-Ghana), Ms Charlotte Pierce, has pledged the commitment of DfID to working with the Government of Ghana to give all young people the opportunity of good quality education.
Source: Sabahi Online
Somali Ministry of Women and Human Rights in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund and United Nations Children's Fund opened a three-day training in Mogadishu Sunday (July 6th) on ways to combat gender-based violence (GBV), Somalia's Goobjoog News reported.
Source: The Guardian
Gender-equality quota will give women more power, but may be more concerned with maintaining the status quo
Source: Daily News Egypt
The new tripartite strategy involves prevention, protection and intervention, and will include raising awareness, and the rehabilitation of those perpetrating violence as well as their victims.
Source: The Cairo Post
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is increasing in rural areas in Egypt according to Women and Development Association (WDA) Alexandria governorate head Aida Nour al-Din, Youm7 reported Friday.
Source: IPS News
As Burundi heads towards the 2015 general elections, and despite a quota of 30 percent women's representation in parliament, women in this southeast African nation feel that they are yet to have a significant say in the management of their country.
Source: Global Post
After landing in Johannesburg following a 19-hour flight from New York, I hop in a taxi heading towards the city center. As I look out the window, the nation's largest city seems calm. The streets are clean, children are playing in the parks, and family homes and business complexes dot the landscape.
Source: allAfrica April 2, 2014, remains a sad day to 53 year old Judith Jumpha of Kwaloza Village, TA Dambe in Mchinji as she recalls the nightmare she passed through when she was left lifeless and had broken jaws after being severely beaten by Group Village Headman Kwaloza and his boys.
Source: World Food Programme A new initiative to ensure better education for girls in Malawi is today being launched by Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg in Dedza.
Source: Morocco World News Conscious of the fact that women's rights are a genuine barometer of the democratic process, the state of women's rights three years after the revolutions continues to worry civil society and the intellectual community in the region.