Source: The Guardian
In 1990, the Italian World Cup was played to the sound of Luciano Pavarotti's Nessun Dorma. In that same year, 12.6 million under-fives died from largely preventable diseases, and 104 million children of primary school age were out of school.
Source: UN News Centre
To triumph over maternal mortality, initiatives must focus on adolescent girls, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said, ones that allow them to go to school, marry whom they choose, shield them from harmful traditional practices and provide them with appropriate family planning services.
Source: Leadership Executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr Babatunde Osotimehin, has called on world leaders to step up immediate and decisive actions against violence on women and girls globally.
Source: Awoko The Country Director and Senior Policy Adviser Ipas Sierra Leone, Valarie Tucker has called on the media to provide more space and develop more programs relating to Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights in order to intensify on the awareness campaign on SRHR for women in the country and to advocate on the improvement of health facilities and services.
Source: Media Club South Afica Women's rights in South Africa have taken a massive leap forward with the launch of the Women's Empowerment Index by the International Women's Forum South Africa (IWFSA).
Source: GhanaWeb
Mrs. Latifa Siddique Abobo, Acting Upper West Regional Director of the Department of Children, has stated that Ghana deserves to be praised for many of its achievements in education.
Source: The Independent
How quickly the outrage passes on from the front pages. A month or so ago much of the world seemed united in its condemnation of the kidnapping of more than 200 girls by Boko Haram, the Islamist sect, in Nigeria.
Source:Hamilton Spectator By the time she ran away, Maimuna bore the scars of a short but brutal marriage. Her face swelled so much from her husband's beating that doctors feared he had dislocated her jaw. Her back and arms bristled with angry welts where her father had whipped her for fleeing to him. She was gaunt from hunger, dressed in filthy rags. And barely a year after her wedding, she was divorced.
Source: allAfrica
Have you ever wondered why male circumcision is not referred to as male genital mutilation while female circumcision is referred to as female genital mutilation yet both these practices are fairly similar?
Source: Mail & Guardian
Controlling fertility is an integral part of the human condition, specifically for women. This is because of the reproductive capacity particular to women's bodies. But interventions in fertility can frequently only happen after conception because of the gendered power imbalance between men and women, which undermines women's ability to influence the terms of sex.
Source: CNN
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Source: Oxfamblogs
A gendered analysis of essential services highlights the scale of the inequality challenge but it also offers useful pointers for the design of more inclusive and effective social protection strategies. Social protection interventions need to acknowledge that gender inequality begins at birth and deepens during the life cycle of a woman. A gender analysis of poverty and vulnerability must be at the core of the construction of an inclusive and effective social protection strategy.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
We commend the UK, U.S. and others for playing a leadership role at the largest ever summit on ending sexual violence in conflict. This leadership helped focus global attention on an urgent issue.
Source: UN
No woman should lose her status, livelihood or property when her husband dies, yet millions of widows in our world face persistent abuse, discrimination, disinheritance and destitution stressed United Nation Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today in his message for this year’s International Widows’ Day.
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.