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.
Source: Africa UP Close
Next year, the world will be marking 20 years of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which is the global framework for advancing gender equality and addressing issues affecting women and girls.
Source: The Lancet
The achievement of an AIDS-free future will surely be a priority discussion topic at the upcoming International AIDS Society conference in Melbourne, Australia.
Source: UNFPA East & Southern Africa
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. At first she celebrated along with everyone else, not realising it was her own wedding ceremony. When she discovered this, she was frantic.
Source: The Guardian
In a slum in Kampala, Uganda, 16-year-old Lydia dreams of becoming a doctor. But she worries that the amount of schooling she misses every time she has her period is scuppering her chances of success.
Source: The Point
Source: allAfrica
The Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN), FCT chapter, over the weekend, took tree planting campaign to Bwari Area Council, where residents were sensitised on the importance of tree planting.