Source: The Herald
Last week, Zimbabwe launched the Beijing+20 Consultative Process, joining several countries across the globe that have since embarked on the next level of women empowerment.
Source: Heritage
The Office of the Vice President of the Republic of Liberia has announced collaboration between F-SHAM of Faith School for Girls, The Foundation for Women and EDIFY, an Education partner in Liberia that will result in funding to transform F-SHAM into a high Technology school for girls in Liberia.
Source: BBC News Africa
Emily was bitten, beaten and raped just a few hundred metres from the UN camp in South Sudan's capital, Juba.
Source: CNN
Uniformed Egyptian police pull a woman in nothing but her underclothes from a frenzied mob. "Get back boy! Get back!" the officers say as one lifts his pistol into the air. Large patches of skin on the victim appear bloodied and raw as she struggles to walk toward a police van with hordes of men still fighting for a handful of her body.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
In Niger, banks providing cereal grains to poor farmers are receiving support from the International Fund for Agricultural. But, the women running these cereal banks are doing more – they are reducing the impact of Niger's food crisis.
Source: Forbes
The African Union has declared 2014 to be the "Year of Agriculture and Food Security", bringing much needed attention to the sector's potential to transform the continent. This year's Africa Progress Report outlines what is needed for Africa to leverage its decade of growth into a transformative development.
Source: Al Jazeera America
Egypt made sexual harassment a crime and introduced penalties including prison terms and fines on Thursday, as the country attempts to control a rise in attacks on women.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Even for community workers used to hearing horrific accounts of sexual violence in Liberia, the case of a two-year-old girl raped by a male acquaintance was devastating.
Source: The Guardian
Three years ago, Margaret* was living a normal life in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, running a restaurant and bringing up three children. One evening, armed men came to her door. They took her to an abandoned house and forced her into a room with four other women; all of them naked.
Source: allAfrica
London — The London Summit on Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict is a landmark opportunity to strengthen global efforts to end rape in war, Human Rights Watch said today. Governments should use the summit, from June 10 to June 13, 2014, to make strong public commitments to end impunity for sexual violence, assist survivors, and prevent further rapes.
Source: Forbes
The African Union has declared 2014 to be the "Year of Agriculture and Food Security", bringing much needed attention to the sector's potential to transform the continent.
Source: allAfrica Many Zimbabweans mistakenly think that the terms "gender" and "woman" are synonyms and can be used inter-changeably as they refer to the same thing.
SOURCE: IPS News As with many conflicts and other humanitarian emergencies around the world, those who suffer the most are women, young girls and children. The current terrible crisis in South Sudan is no exception.
Source: IPSnews
Just 17 years old, Clarisse is already a mother of two, who lives with her husband and his four other wives in rural southern Chad. Three years earlier, she had watched her mom and sisters preparing food for a party one day.
Egypt has criminalised sexual harassment for the first time, in a move that campaigners say is just the first step towards ending an endemic problem.
Source: Voice of America
Dakar — More than 200 West African elected officials and civil society leaders have converged on Dakar this week for a conference on female leadership. As parity laws bring more and more women into local and national governments, experts say it isn't translating into improved policies on so-called women's issues like health, women's rights and development.
Source: The Star
In a single week last month, Jill Abramson, the first woman to serve as Executive Editor of the New York Times, resigned under duress, and Natalie Nougayrède resigned as Editor-in-Chief of France's leading newspaper, Le Monde, complaining in an open letter of having been undermined. What, if anything, do these high-profile dismissals tell us about women in senior workplace positions?
Source: Tunis Afrique Presse
Tunis, — The Young Women's Leadership in Political and Social Development (YWLD) Programme was launched, on Thursday, at a news conference held in Tunis.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
Dodoma — THE government has admitted that gender violence remains a big problem in the country with 6,000 cases reported in 2013 alone.
Source: The Point
The World Health Organization classification of"FGM defines type 1 "mutilation" as excision of the prepuce with or without excision of part of the entire clitoris.