Source: Awareness Times
An International Non-governmental Organization, Ipas, on Monday 23rd June 2014, commenced a two day workshop for over 35 Members of the Press Gallery at Parliament in Freetown. The organization which seeks to promote women’s sexual reproductive health and rights, delivered the training on ‘understanding and reporting women’s sexual reproductive health and rights for effective as well as accurate reporting’.
Source: Monrovia Inquirer
The 24th Gender is My Agenda Campaign pre-summit consultative meeting on gender mainstreaming recently ended at the Sipopo Conference Center in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea with over 25 African Gender Ministers in attendance.
Source: Bulawayo 24 News
The Minister of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development Oppah Muchinguri has called on women to engage various ministries and have their views captured in the realignment of Zimbabwe's 400 laws, to ensure gender equality.
Source: Leadership
The Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Development Partners on gender issues.
Source: UN News Centre
With women and girls in Central African Republic (CAR) falling prey to a raft of "terrifying" violations ¬perpetrated by armed groups – from rape to sexual slavery and forced marriage, the head of UN Women today urged the Security Council to take strong action to help restore the rule of law in the country and bolster women's participation, leadership and protection.
Source: France24
More than 100 Moroccan women took to the streets Tuesday demanding Islamist Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane resign after he urged women to stay at home and look after their families.
Source: Women News Network
In late June 2014, the world was outraged by the story of Liz who was brutally gang-raped in western Kenya while walking home from a funeral, left to die in a pit latrine, and suffered an obstetric fistula as a result of the attack.
Source: The Arabic Network for Human Right Information
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) today denounced the closure of Salema Center for Women's Research and Studies, by Sudanese authorities in Khartoum, along with its evacuation without giving any grounds.
Source: IIP Digital US Embassy
Peace Corps volunteers worldwide are supporting the new U.S. governmentwide Let Girls Learn effort by increasing opportunities for women and girls through education. Let Girls Learn launched June 20 to raise awareness about the need to support all girls in their pursuit of a quality education.
Source: Sudan Vision
Some 100 million are homeless on any given day. Further millions are forcibly evicted or displaced from their homes every year. A gender analysis indicates that women are particularly affected and the present publication aims at shedding some light on the main underlying reasons for this situation.
Source: The Guardian
Campaign aims to revoke nationality laws that may leave women without healthcare or education, or cause stress in families
Source: The Guardian
Edna Adan has dedicated her life to building her country's first maternity hospital, and campaigning against FGM. Now she is looking for new allies in the fight against gender violence
Source: AWID
Article 46 of the new Tunisian constitution states that "The State shall take all necessary measures to eradicate violence against women" [1]. Three months after its enactment, the May 2014 recommendations made in Tunisia by the mechanisms of the United Nations' human rights system [2], stipulate that violence cannot be eradicated without reforming legal codes. These recommendations also emphasize the need to strengthen oversight of informal sector work.
Source: IPS News Service
Before Rwanda's 1994 genocide, Salaam Uwamariya's husband, a professor, was the family breadwinner, providing for her and their eight children. Uwamariya sold vegetables at a nearby market to supplement their income.
Source: The Guardian
I sat in the glittery closing plenary of last week's global summit to end sexual violence in conflict in London, tired, saddened and outraged. I listened, together with activists, governments and survivors, to the words of Britain's foreign secretary, William Hague. He played to the crowd.
Source: allAfrica
Could it be possible that if women in Africa had access to water, it could save them from undergoing the harmful practice of female genital mutilation (FGM)? It seems that according to yet-to-be released research by Ugandan Gwada Okot Tao, FGM and other forms of circumcision in Africa could be linked to water.
Having just four women in the new cabinet goes against President El-Sisi's claims that more women should hold important posts, says National Women's Council (NCW).
The department responsible for championing the rights of women has given its support to the Commission for Gender Equality's probe into reports that an SABC boss received a 'wife' as a gift.
Source: The Daily Observer
Jainaba Faye, a student of The University of the Gambia was selected by Moremi Initiative for Women’s Leadership in Africa 2014 MILEAD fellowship for her outstanding track records as a determined and development-oriented female youth leader on the quest for the progress and advancement of women and children in The Gambia.
Source: Mareeg
As the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict opens in London next week, thousands of miles away in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, sexual violence continues to be used as a weapon of war. Unfortunately this is a story that will barely receive any attention in the London Summit.