Yesterday, the Government of Ugandan took a major step back in the fight against HIV.
Over the past several decades, the World Bank has been an important thought leader on the value of investing in women and girls.
The majority of businesswomen and aspiring female entrepreneurs in Namibia are stuck in a condition that does not allow them to progress.
Source: Women Under Siege
In what experts are calling the single worst atrocity since fighting broke out in South Sudan last December, hundreds of men, women, and children were killed last month when rebels seized the northern oil town of Bentiu. The rebels denied the allegations, saying it was retreating government troops who perpetrated the murders.
Economic changes in recent decades have shifted traditional power structures and witnessed the emergence of concepts that emphasize gender equality. It is acknowledged that across the continent, women play a pivotal role in agricultural production, rural economy, household-level nutrition and the reduction of rural poverty.
Source: VibeGhana
Ms Dorcas Coker-Appiah, gender advocate, has expressed disappointment over the strikingly missing women leadership role persistent in the Ghanaian society in spite of numerous policies and actions to bridge the gap.
Source: Daily Independent
The Executive Director of UN Women, Ms Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, on Monday charged Nigeria to emplace policies that would promote gender equality and women empowerment.
Nearly 20 years ago, the world came together in Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women. There, 189 governments adopted a visionary roadmap for gender equality: the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
Source: Leadership
The Lagos State Police Command is investigating the case of gang-rape involving two officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in the metropolis, LEADERSHIP has reliably gathered.
Source: Daily Trust
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) has promised to support Nigeria in securing the release of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgent five weeks ago.
Source: The Inquirer
Liberia Women are calling on the Government of Liberia to condemn the kidnapping of two hundred girls in Nigeria by the militants of Boko Haram.
Source: This Day Live
Statistics from the Lagos State AIDS Control Agency has revealed that in the last one year 1,702 pregnant women tested positive to HIV and had to be placed on prophylaxis.
Source: News24
Johannesburg — THE Women's League of South Africa's ruling party has outlined its programme of action to show solidarity with the 200 schoolgirls Boko Haram members recently abducted in Chibok, Borno State.
Source: The Guardian
The 10-year-old girl who was raped but unable to terminate her pregnancy due to Senegal's ban on abortion has given birth to twin boys.
A series of gold-framed pictures cover the wall from left to right inside the working space of Senegalese human rights activist Bineta Diop. Nelson Mandela, Paul Kagame, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Yasser Arafat -- they're all here. This is Diop's wall of memories, reminders of meetings and accomplishments over the years.
Meriam Yehya Ibrahim faces a death sentence in Sudan for apostasy after a court ruled she converted from Islam.
Source: Awareness Times Women across the country, who assembled on 13th and 14th May 2014 in Magburaka Town to draft the Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Bill and domestication of CEDAW in a consultative forum, have expressed their disappointment over what they described as bad customs and tradition which do not allow them in certain parts of the country to sit on the Paramount ChieftaincyThrone.
Source: Institute For Security Studies
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Over three million people have tweeted about it by now. The #BringBackOurGirls Twitter campaign has seen a phenomenal uptake, with heads of state (and their wives), movie stars and women's rights leaders all joining in to highlight the plight of the more than 200 school girls kidnapped by the militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, in north-eastern Nigeria last month.
Source: IRIN
Juba — Sexual and gender-based violence might not be a new phenomenon in South Sudan, but the current crisis and the near absence of protection for civilians has exacerbated it, analysts say.