Source: Daily Independent
Lagos — One of the unique features of this year's Women of Destiny Conference, organised by the Daystar Christian Centre, Lagos, last weekend, was the move to lend a feminine voice to the agitations of Nigerians for the release of the over 200 girls abducted over two weeks ago in Chibok, Benue State.
Source: Think Africa Press
ANALYSIS
The Nigerian Islamist sect has kidnapped 234 school girls. Why?
Less than 24 hours after an explosion ripped through the Nyanya Motor Park in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, reports of another act of terror filtered in from the country's north east
Source: allAfrica
PRESS RELEASE
Supporters will rally at the Embassy of Nigeria on May 6, 2014 to pressure idle government officials to take measurable actions to save the newly estimated 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in the northeastern Nigerian village of Chibok.
Source: DW
Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls, a day after President Goodluck Jonathan ordered a three day shut down of the capital Abuja during the World Economic Conference.
Source: DW
Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for kidnapping more than 200 teenage schoolgirls and is threatening to sell them. The girls have been held for three weeks.
Source: The Guardian
Islamist militants' leader threatens to sell the more than 270 girls abducted in north-east Nigeria on 14 April.
The leader of Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has said that more than 270 schoolgirls snatched from their dormitories were "slaves" whom he planned to sell in the market.
Source: Daily News Egypt
Four political parties and seven civil society organisations strongly criticised the passage of laws dealing with upcoming parliamentary elections without consultation with women’s groups and organisations.
Source: Star Africa
Malawi will on Tuesday launch a five-year National Girls Education Strategy (NGES) to guide interventions for the enrolment of girls as well as the creation of a conducive environment to allow them to excel in school.According to a statement from Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the ceremony will also be used to launch a National Girls Education Communication Strategy (NGECS).
Source: The Star
A group of women in Murang'a county have taken the lead to protect Ndakaini dam which is the main source of water for Nairobi residents -- by planting trees.
Source: allAfrica
Eight gender based violence (GBV) survivors have hailed the Gender Links entrepreneurship and self-sustaining skills course that aims to economically empower women. This came out during the different presentations made by the GBV survivors during the just ended SADC Protocol@Work Summit in Zambia.
Source: The Rwanda Focus
The World Bank director of Gender and Development, Jeni Klugman, yesterday visited schools in Kigali that are part of the Adolescent Girls Initiative (AGI), a project sponsored by the WB.
Source: Financial Gazette
I am sharing health tips to women in their 40s, by one, Jenny Blake. Women in their forties are very active, often working and raising families, with little time to take care of themselves. At this point in a woman's life, making good health choices will keep her looking and feeling good, and can prevent the onset of many chronic type diseases.
Source: Heritage
A Certified Midwife assigned at the Boegeesay Health Center in Rivercess County has alarmed over the numerous challenges confronting the medical facility.
Source: This Day Live
A former member of the House of Representative, Hon. Binta Masi Garba, has emerged the Chairman of the Adamawa State All Progressives Congress (APC).
Source: The Star
ANALYSIS
"I don't want to be a compliment to anybody else. I want to be me. I am not an entertainer. I do not want a borrowed rib!" So came the impassioned statement by Malawi presidential candidate Jessie Kabwila, a woman toughened by a strangely unapologetic anti-female prevailing political tradition in a country already headed by a woman president.
Source: IIP Digital
DOCUMENT
Remarks by Anne C. Richard, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
Let me start by thanking you for organizing this event.
And thank you for preparing this video. It is inspiring to see how enlightened family planning policies can transform the lives of women like Mihret who was a child bride and young mother and is now proudly helping others make their own choices about when to bear children.
Source: AlertNet
Girls kidnapped by Islamist insurgents in Nigeria earlier this month are being married off to militants in mass weddings, according to a report in the British newspaper the Guardian.
Source: Premium Times
Abuja — Scores of Nigerian women, and a few men, defied the heavy Abuja rain Wednesday to protest and demand the release of over 200 girls kidnapped on April 14 by insurgents believed to be members of the extremist Boko Haram sect.
Tunisia has officially lifted key reservations to the international women’s treaty, an important step toward realizing gender equality, Human Rights Watch said today. The Tunisian government should next ensure that all domestic laws conform to international standards and eliminate all forms of discrimination against women.
Hundreds of parliamentarians, dignitaries and policymakers from around the world gathered in Stockholm, Sweden, from 23 to 25 April to reaffirm their support for women’s and adolescents’ human rights, particularly their reproductive rights.