Source: allAfrica
Access to education remains one of the rights that majority of girls have been deprived of because of early pregnancies and marriage. Culture and poverty also limits women's chances to access a decent education.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
FOR the young Maasai girls who flocked to the Lusane dispensary, 72 kms from Kilindi District headquarters, Songe, dressed in colourful regalia, Thursday May 22, 2014 was a special day for them.
At their age they would normally get ready for the traumatic and dangerous practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). On this particular day, however, it was the opposite.
Source: Daily Independent
Abuja — Arrangements have been concluded to provide women at the grassroots level in Africa with leadership and advocacy skills that would enable them to contribute meaningfully in the democratic space.
Source: The Point
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Hello and a warm welcome to another edition of She-she-she, your weekly column that deals with issues of women and girls.
Source: Voice of America
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: Independent.ie
Daniel Wani, the husband of the Sudanese woman sentenced to hang for apostasy, has spoken for the first time of his delight at seeing his baby daughter – and his anger at the authorities' insistence on keeping Meriam Ibrahim in chains.
Source: Leadership Nigeria News
Hajiya Asma'u Yari, the wife of Zamfara Governor, has called on parents in the state to enrol their female children in school to ensure a bright future for them.
Source: ABC News
Women face discrimination, inequality in army.
Source: Leadership Nigeria News
Political parties in the country have been urged to produce more women candidates in the 2015 general elections. Hajiya Halima Alfa, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) made the call in a statement issued and signed by her to commemorate the 2014 Democracy Day on Thursday.
Source: The guardian
For many girls in Uganda, life stops when they get their period. On menstrual hygiene day, find out how one NGO is helping girls stay in school all month long.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
NETWORKING among women in villages has helped to intensify the campaign against Gender- Based Violence in some areas of Zanzibar. There is seriousness in controlling violation of the rights of children and women. Effective networking groups in some Zanzibar villages have helped to unearth many abuses such as rape and defilement of children.
Source: IRIN
The spike in women managing their own agricultural land following Zimbabwe's 2000 land reform programme catapulted the country to high up in the African league of female farmers tilling their own farms, although accurate data for gendered land ownership on the continent remains a grey and contested area.
Source: United States Embassy of South AFrica
"Violence against women is not a women's issue. It's a men's issue." This was the heart of Dr. Jackson Katz's message during his recent visit. The internationally recognized American author, filmmaker and cultural theorist traveled to South Africa to share his groundbreaking work in gender violence prevention education and critical media literacy.
Source: Newsday
Young sexual and reproductive health rights activist, Charmaine Picardo, says her participation in the Washington Fellowship will assist her in developing local solutions to common health challenges affecting young people.
Source: BeMagazine
On April 17, 2014 our third day filming ‘Chasing the Cut’, two women aged 19 and 23 walk with difficulty to meet us at Kati kit Primary School in Amudat Uganda. One of them, Cheg (not real name) aged 23, managed to explain what the problem is.
Source: Gender Links
Following the elections and President Jacob Zuma's recent cabinet appointments, South Africa has missed its last opportunity - so tantalizingly close - to achieve gender parity in politics ahead of the 2015 deadline.
Source: Huffington Post
Different from what many people believe, menstrual health is not just a "women's issue." We need to get people -- boys and girls, men and women -- to talk openly about menstrual health in every part of the world. Female hygiene should be at the top of each government's list of priorities.
Source: allAfrica
It is common to hear people talk about women's empowerment and the liberation of women from poverty and domestic oppression and exploitation as pre-requisites for national development. Issues concerning women are hence integrated in the national policies and programmes. What is different, however, is the practicalisation of such policy statements.
Source: MSNBC
In the Konso Region of southern Ethiopia, the struggle for clean, safe water is a daily reality for women and young girls.
Source: Huffington Post
When Hillary Clinton and the head of U.N. Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka show up for a report launch, it's a big deal. That's just what happened when the World Bank released its report Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity.