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.
Source: DW
The Nigerian military has said that although it knows the location of more than 200 abducted schoolgirls, trying to rescue them by force could get them killed. The next step in the Boko Haram hostage drama is unclear.
Source: CISA News Africa
Khartoum — Lawyers have confirmed to Amnesty International that an appeal has been lodged against the conviction of a pregnant Sudanese Christian woman, who has been sentenced to death for her religious choice and to 100 lashes for 'adultery'.
Source: Capital FM
Nairobi — Every time Rosemary Olale told anyone about her HIV status 10 years ago, tears would roll down her cheeks uncontrollably; she felt helpless... she felt hopeless.
Source: Sunday Trust
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Yola — On April 30 this year, Binta Masi Garba was elected chairman of Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the party's state congress held at Ribadu Square in Yola
Source: This Day Live
Ahead of the 2015 general elections, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), a pro-democracy group, yesterday in Enugu bemoaned the level of participation of women in the governance process since the return of democracy in Nigeria, noting that it had devised strategies to ensure that women take effective part in the coming elections.
Source: OSISA
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For decades, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been used the world over as the measure for economic progress and development. Policies and programmes designed to end poverty and inequality have thus been designed and informed through this GDP lens.
Source: Aswat Masriya
Cairo — The National Council for Human Rights reported on Monday a high turnout of voters during the early hours of the first voting day, with a particularly impressive turnout for women at poll stations.
Source: Leadership
The chief of defence staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Sabundu Badeh, yesterday disclosed that the military has located the whereabouts of over 200 female students abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on April 14.
Source: Daily Observer
Women councilors across the country were recently trained on the Women’s Act 2010, Domestic Violence Act 2013 and Sexual Offences Act 2013.
Source: CNN
From ambitious teens taking on the world and tech pioneers breaking boundaries to maverick slum dwellers dreaming big and trailblazing innovators tackling social problems, CNN's African Start-Up has been following the efforts of the continent's innovative and determined entrepreneurs to make their business dreams become reality.
Source: Inter Press Services
From all across Rwanda, and even from parts of neighbouring Burundi, people flock to the southern town of Butare to a little shop called Inzozi Nziza or Sweet Dreams. They come here for a taste of something of the unknown, something most have never tasted in their lives — the sweet, cold, velvety embrace of ice cream.
Source: The New Times
Women should be empowered to participate in Africa's economic development if robust growth is to be sustained, political leaders said at the ongoing African Development Bank (AfDB) Annual Meetings yesterday.
Source: OHCHR
The establishment of the Working Group by the Human Rights Council at its 15th session in September 2010 was a milestone on the long road towards women’s equality with men. Over the years, many constitutional and legal reforms to integrate women’s human rights fully into domestic law have occurred, but there remains insufficient progress.
Source: Mamamia.com
Nava Malula knows what it is to be a woman in a war zone. As a survivor of the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she describes her memories of brutal violence against civilians as a wound that won't stop bleeding.