Source: This Day Live
Women rights activists and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) recently gathered in Istanbul, Turkey to address the failures of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on the rights of women, and proffer solutions for inclusion in the post-2015 agenda, at an event organised by the Journalists and Writers Foundation of Turkey.
Source: GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP for EDUCATION
Access to free, primary school education is a promise to children that all world leaders have made through the U.N. Millennium Development Goals and the Education For All movement. But the right to education, particularly for girls, is still too often denied – sometimes violently as the recent abduction of more than 200 school girls in Nigeria shows.
Source: Voice of America
A senior Nigerian official says President Goodluck Jonathan's administration has launched a nationwide sensitization campaign to inform citizens about the government's effort to improve security, combat terrorism and update people on the search for over 200 school girls abducted by the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram.
Source: The Herald
More than half of teenage girls in Zimbabwe do not have access to sanitary wear and use unhygienic alternatives such as leaves, a senior Government official has said.
Source: Radio Netherland Worldwide
In the Democratic Republic of Congo there have been more than two decades of armed conflict, sexual violence against women and widespread impunity for their abusers in the DRC. The Survivors Speak OUT! Network, a group of torture survivors, calls upon the United Nations to encourage the DRC government to respect the human rights conventions.
Source: Timeslive
Meriam Ibrahim, 27, has been in prison in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, since January on charges of abandoning Islam and of adultery. The sharia court refused to recognise her Christian marriage.
Source: UNFPA
LUKULU DISTRICT, Zambia – Olivia Kaunda, 34, just moved to a shelter in the Luvuzi Rural Health Centre in Western Zambia. Eight months pregnant, this is the place she will call home for the next few weeks as she prepares to give birth in the adjacent clinic.
Source: BBC Africa
Niger has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, and is struggling to stop the practice, writes the BBC's Fergal Keane.
Source: Humanosphere
Some 73 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America are responsible for 96% of global maternal deaths and more than 90% of newborn deaths. Yet, these same countries are home to only 42% of the world's health workforce.
Source: BBC Africa
Security officials "routinely" rape women in prisons in DR Congo as punishment for their political activities, a UK-based charity says.
Source: The Guardian
A Masai couple charged with the murder of a girl who was in their care and bled to death after being subjected to female genital mutilation pleaded not guilty in a Kenyan court on Wednesday.
Source: The Guardian
Interventions to end hunger and malnutrition often focus on women. Our panel explore why.
Source: Vanguard
INTERVIEW
Canadian-born Jelena Zivkovic is the Acting Director, Academic Advising & Retention at the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, Adamawa State. In this chat with Vanguard, Jelena whose real interest is entrepreneurship, especially women entrepreneurs, says northern women who were hitherto very conservative, are beginning to enter the workplace or business place so she decided to find out why.
Source: allAfrica
With South Sudan's peace process floundering, members of the diaspora and their American supporters have come up with a possible solution: give women leadership roles and let them restore peace.
Source: Post2015.org
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been praised for their ability to focus effort and attention of the international community on key issues relevant to the future of the majority of the world population.
Source: SBS
Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as Africa's largest economy and experts say female entrepreneurs have been one of the key drivers behind the country's economic success.
Source: Ventures
Countries in Africa are not meeting the demands required to make business environment conducive for female entrepreneurs, Dell yesterday stated, as results of the second-annual Dell Gender-Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (2014 Gender-GEDI) which analysed 30 developed and developing countries were announced.
Source: Somaliland Sun
AMISOM Gender Unit today held a sensitization workshop for senior officers drawn from AMISOM military and police component on good practices in preventing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.
Source: Gender Link
Limited access to sexual reproductive health and abuse from male customers have been identified as key factors that place sex workers at risk of contracting HIV. Nkomile Mpooa of CARE-Lesotho brought the issue up during her presentation at the SADC Protocol@Work Summit currently underway in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Source: UN News Centre
Speaking at the launch of a video campaign on ending sexual violence through gender equality, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that it is time to demand action to eliminate a scourge that harms millions of women and girls around the world.