Source: MSAfropolitan
Last month, a group of circa 40 women gathered in Banjul, Gambia for a transformational feminist leadership workshop organised by Women Living Under Muslim Law (WLUML). I was one of the trainers at the weeklong workshop; my sessions were about using communication for feminist advocacy.
Source: FIDH
Sexual harassment and assault against women remain rife, our organisations warn in a report released today, constituting major obstacles to their participation in the political transition of their country. Successive governments have failed to take measures to stop violence against women and such crimes continue to meet with complete impunity.
Source: The Guardian
While attention in the sector has recently been focused on the IPCC's latest report on climate change, in Sudan women have been quietly making breakthroughs by issuing the country's first carbon credits. In a country blighted by conflict and drought, the Women's Development Association Network (WDAN) representing over 50,000 women in Sudan, is driving economic growth and reversing deforestation.
Source: Africa Journalism
Lesotho's highest court today struck a serious blow against women's rights and gender equality by upholding a discriminatory section of the Chieftainship Act, which denies daughters the right to succeed to chieftainship solely due to their gender.
Source: KC Team
In Malawi, a new civil society charter to tackle HIV and TB is prioritising gender-based messages to help change people's behaviour.
Source: Times of Zambia
GOVERNMENT says it is disheartening to learn that maternal mortality cases are still high in Zambia, especially as a result of unsafe abortions.
Source: The Star
Many counties are still practising Female Genital Mutilation, the Anti- FGM Board has said. The board's chairperson Jebii Kilimo said FGM is practised extensively in Pokot, Marakwet, Baringo and Narok counties.
Source: Leadership
Abuja — As 2015 creeps in, the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria has challenged Nigerian women to build on successes recorded in recent past and ensure they vie for more and higher elective offices in 2015.
Source: East African Business Week
Kigali — She survived the horrific 1994 Genocide, but since then her livelihood has depended on showing self-initiative, hard work and an appreciation for learning new skills.
Source: News24
Abuja — THE Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development is hopeful the Widows' Empowerment Scheme would address the plight of such women in the country.
Source: 24Tanzania
A total of 97 female Police officers who returned home last week after successfully completing a one-year peacekeeping mission under the United Nations African Union Hybrid Mission in Darfur (Unamid) have been commended for their professional conduct and discipline exhibited during their mission.
Source: Daily Trust
The women wing of Nasrul-lahi Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) in Kwara State yesterday staged a peaceful protest over the abduction of over 200 female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State and other acts of violence by insurgents in parts of the country.
Source: The Namibian
ELEVEN incidents of rape were reported countrywide over the Easter weekend, including that of a five-year-old.
Source: Policymic
"We're gathered to celebrate Women's History Month, but I don't celebrate Women's History Month," announced writer Mona Charen, one of the panelists at the Heritage Foundation's recent panel on feminism and happiness.
Source: Voice of America
Abuja — More than five days after the abduction of more than 100 teenage girls in Northeastern Nigeria, 85 girls remain missing, believed to be deep within a dangerous forest.
Source: The Daily Observer
The National Enterprise Development Initiative (NEDI) recently presented fertiliser, vegetable products to different youth and women groups, at a presentation ceremony held at NEDI office.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
MATERNAL mortality and morbidity remain a critical global problem. In 2010, estimates suggests that globally there were 287,000 maternal deaths-- down from 543,000 in 1990.
Source: the New Times
The Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion has said that it was on course to fully implement all programmes for which funds were allocated in the 2013/2014 national budget.
Source: The Observer (Kampala)
Police in the eastern district of Iganga recently arrested a 40-year old father who allegedly married off his eight-year-old daughter to her 32-year-old primary teacher for Shs 300,000 and a rooster.
Source: Times of Zambia
APPROXIMATELY every two minutes, a woman dies during pregnancy or child birth. However, most of the causes of maternal deaths are highly preventable. In Zambia alone, there are an estimated 600,000 births, with about 2,600 maternal deaths and about 20,200 infant mortalities.