Source: Sci Dev Net
Africa is desperate to catch up with developed nations — especially in terms of using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to achieve sustainable growth. One of the issues Africa is keen to address to achieve sustainable economic growth is gender equality in ICTs access and use. How best can the continent narrow the gap, empower girls and women and realign the imbalance that currently favours males?
Source: SABC News
All elected public officials and executive council members must publicly take a stand against rape and all forms of sexual abuse against women and children, KwaZulu-Natal premier Senzo Mchunu said on Tuesday.
Source: Voice of America
As the number of deaths of young girls subjected to the traditional African practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) increases, the population of village practitioners grows even bigger. One of Liberia's outspoken opponents of the practice is Angela Peabody.
Source: Daily Observer
The First Lady of the Republic has outlined the numerous contributions and gains registered by the government of The Gambia under the leadership of President Jammeh in the area of women empowerment, noting that the regime has long since recognised them as an important prerequisite for the attainment of sustainable development.
Source: Trust
It was five in the morning when Congolese police came to arrest Faith, beating her small children with their guns and leading her husband outside, never to be seen again.
Source: UN News Centre
Despite major global progress in improving the health of children and their mothers, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged participants at a summit in Toronto to show the leadership, build the key partnerships, generate the financing and devise the creative solutions needed to deliver a world of health, safety and possibility for every woman and every child.
Source: UNFPA
ABUJA, Nigeria – Since her marriage at age 14, Zuera Mustapha, now 21, has experienced two stillbirths and a recurrent obstetric fistula resulting from her difficult deliveries. Yet even with these hardships, she has been luckier than some; her mother and sister both died of complications in childbirth. In northern Nigeria, where she lives, fistula and maternal death are alarmingly common – a fact UNFPA is working to change.
Source: PM News
The AU has announced plans to engage the Federal Government and other stakeholders in a meeting, in a fresh bid to rescue over 200 girls abducted by insurgents in Chibok, Borno.
Source: Albawaba Business
Gender still remains an area of great concern for harnessing the full productive potential of the North African and Middle Eastern Woman when it comes to the work place. Women's participation in the labour force, and in paid employment has maintained an upward trend in almost all regions of the world at 56.6%.
Source: Daily Observer
The government of The Gambia through the Office of the Vice President and Ministry of Women Affairs on Friday launched The Gambia National Action Plan on the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR) on Women, Peace and Security at the fringes of the just concluded first ever high-level women conference in Banjul as part of celebrations marking the 2014 International Women's Day.
Source: Today's Zaman
An international summit in İstanbul, with women's perspectives on the United Nation's post-2015 Development Agenda as its focus, has called for women's empowerment as a condition for sustainable development.
Source: Sudan Tribune
Washington — The United States appeared to suggest today that it has yet to establish that the children of a Sudanese women sentenced to death on apostasy charges are American citizens.
Source: News24
The Lagos State Government has sworn in 12 new magistrates, a majority of them female.
The 10 female magistrates and their male counterparts join the existing 107 presiding over the magistrate courts in the state.
Source: The New Times
THE Rwanda fashion industry has over the years evolved into a lucrative and vibrant business sector. Women have been largely behind this mushrooming industry.
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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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.