Source: DW
An HIV prevention bill passed by Ugandan lawmakers has caused an outrcy amongst those fighting for the rights of people living with HIV. The bill calls for mandatory HIV tests for pregnant women.
Source: SAnews.gov.za
Calls for the release of the more than 200 Nigerian school girls, recently kidnapped by the Islamic militant group Boko-Haram, are intensifying in South Africa. Women, Children and People with Disabilities Minister Lulu Xingwana on Wednesday again called for their safe return.
Source: The Star
Anti-FGM Board Chairperson Linah Kilimo with Christine Nanjals who is Director of the Unit of Prosecutors at the DPPs handling the FGM cases.
Source: Vanguard
A woman, Hajiya Maimuna Danja, Wednesday died on her way to Katsina to pray for the release of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls.
Source: UN News Centre
The United Nations expert committee tasked with monitoring discrimination against women today added its voice to the chorus of condemnation of the abduction of over 200 girls from their school in north-eastern Nigeria and called for their immediate release.
Source: World Bank
PRESS RELEASE
Less educated girls far more likely to suffer violence, child marriage
Girls with little or no education are far more likely to be married as children, suffer domestic violence, live in poverty, and lack a say over household spending or their own health care than better-educated peers, which harms them, their children, and communities, a new report by the World Bank Group finds.
WHEN terrorists in Nigeria organized a secret attack last month, they didn’t target an army barracks, a police department or a drone base. No, Boko Haram militants attacked what is even scarier to a fanatic: a girls’ school.
Leaders have opposed attempts to amend the law to reduce the number of women representation in Parliament and in county assemblies. Senate Speaker Ekwe Ethuro admitted that the country was agonising over how to achieve the two-third gender rule by 2015, but said women’s rights must be protected.
WOMEN from South Africa's ruling African National Congress outlined actions to mobilise civil society and government organisations to explore ways of ensuring the release of the schoolgirls Boko Haram members kidnapped in Chibok, Borno State recently.
Source: The Point
The first Gambian female governor in the history of the country, Siffai Hydara, has reaffirmed her allegiance and loyalty to the APRC party under the leadership of President Yahya Jammeh, adding that she would do her utmost best to live up to expectations in raising the flag of the Gambian women.
Source: South Sudan News Agency
PRESS RELEASE
The South Sudan Women Cry for Peace Group have been following the unfortunate events that unfolded on the 15th of December 2013 with sadness. To that effect the group was established in January 2014 and thereafter released two statements dated the 7th of January and the 21st of February 2014 respectively.
Source: Angola Press
Ngonguembo — At least 947 women from Ngonguembo municipality, northern Cuanza Norte province, were immunised against tetanus in April, under the vaccination campaign promoted by the local health authorities, aiming to prevent the referred disease in ladies in fertile age.
Source: Daily Trust
Lagos — All Progressive Congress (APC) women leader, Barrister Sharon Ikeazor, has urged the first lady, Patience Jonathan, to visit the women whose children were abducted in Chibok, Borno State.
Source: Leadership
The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria by Boko Haram insurgents is more than just an act of terrorism against the federal government; it is a direct attack on the right of women to an education, said Donald Kaberuka, President, African Development Bank (AfDB), Tunis. The kidnapping also puts the very future of the country in danger as school learners represent that future, he added.
Source: The Reporter
I never considered my mother a gambler, but looking back to my earliest days in Ethiopia, I realize that the likelihood of my mother and me both dying during childbirth was alarmingly high. When I was born, the lifetime risk of a mother dying during pregnancy or childbirth in Ethiopia was about 1 in 14.
Source: The Star
Recent reports that a 13-year-old girl died after excessive bleeding due to botched female circumcision in Kajiado county and the subsequent arrest of a chief who aided the circumcision of four girls including his two daughters in Narok county shows that the war against female genital mutilation is far from being won.
Source: Daily Trust
Lagos — Women from various Non-Governmental Organisations will today embark on a nationwide protest to demand release of the abducted Chibok school girls.
Source: Daily Independent
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has condemned the impression being created by a section of the press that the military lacks the capacity to rescue the girls abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok.
Source: News24
Abuja — THE kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria by Boko Haram insurgents is more than an act of terrorism against the federal government but a direct attack on the rights of women to an education.
Source: This Day Live
A human rights organisation, for Women BAOBAB yesterday demanded an apology from the First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, for parents of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls for expressing doubts that the abduction ever took place.