Source: Newera
OMUTHIYA – Police Deputy Commissioner Naomi Katjiua has expressed disappointment in the high number of rapes in Oshikoto Region, which she said is "embarrassing".
Source: National Geographic
Crowds of police officers and nurses converged in a room painted with bright alphabet letters at a hospital in Rwanda's capital, Kigali. A plush frog and a couple of dolls with Afros lay on the table, props that might be used by a child to entertain herself while her mother seeks care or to act out a haunting scene of abuse for a counselor.
Source: Frost Illustrated
A new study by the research group AfroBarometer finds that despite a flurry of new laws against gender violence, for political participation and other benefits, Africa's women still suffer a disadvantage in education, jobs and political participation—three major areas.
Source: UNDP
"You could say my job is exciting," said Margarida Luis Sitoe, a manual de-miner who works with UNDP's humanitarian demining partners, Apopo. "It's hard work but I enjoy it and, as an African woman, I feel empowered in such a position."
Source: Daily Observer
The First Lady of the Republic has reaffirmed that the Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) remains committed to the global vision of getting to zero discrimination, zero new HIV infection and AIDS related diseases. She noted that their campaign to prevent the transmission of HIV from mothers to their babies is at a particularly crucial moment.
Source: Vanguard
Abuja – Sen. Florence Ita-Giwa has decried the rising cases of violence against women in Nigeria, saying it greatly violated their rights as human being and as citizens of the country.
Source: Southern Times Africa
International Women's Day on March 8 is an annual commemoration extending back for over a century. In Africa women have been in the forefront of the movements toward national liberation, social and environmental justice as well as gender equality.
Source: The New Times
Rwandans will no longer have to travel abroad to get fertility-related care following the opening of a fertility clinic in Kigali.
Source: The Analyst
Monrovia — The mother of a fifteen year old girl who gave birth to a triplex in Camp 4 in Nimba County is calling on the government and philanthropic organizations to help provide support for the children.
Source: Times of Zambia
Women and girls in Zambia are continuously facing outrageous discrimination and violations of their human rights. Everyday in the media there are stories of Gender Based Violence (GBV) such as defilement cases, early marriages and other forms of discrimination and abuse against women.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
THE government envisages building medical operation theatres and maternity waiting rooms in all district health centres, in a quest to improve reproductive health services which, at the moment, are bleak.
Source: Daily Trust
Mrs Amina Suzanah Agbaje is a private legal practitioner, Notary Public and Managing Partner Lex Suites (a Law Firm in Abuja) and current Chairperson of the International Federation of Women Lawyers FIDA (Nigeria) Abuja branch. In this interview she speaks on women rights, domestic violence, child molestation, among others.
Source: CaitalFM
Nairobi — The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has established and deployed a specialised Anti-Female Genital Mutilation Unit (FGM) to the counties that is charged with prosecution and sensitisation of communities on legislation that prohibits the practice.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
WHEN one attends a meeting where women activists and politicians convene, there is something that becomes evident.
Source: The Inquirer (Monrovia)
Several women organizations and groups have been motivated to assist the security sector in consolidating the peace as the United Nations Missions draws down its troops from the country.
Source: Malawi News Agency
Mother Groups in Mpalo Education Zone in Ntchisi have been commended for promoting education through visits, counseling and direct support to vulnerable children in the zone, the development which has seen a lot of girls being retained in school.
Source: Malawi News Agency
Lilongwe — Police says cases of Gender Based Violence (GBV) could remarkably decrease if chiefs collaborated with the law enforcers in the fight other than encouraging the shielding of perpetrators.
Source: This Day Live
MasterCard, has announced a collaboration with Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF) in Nigeria to support 1500 women entrepreneurs by providing them with technology and skills-enhancement programs.
Source: DVIDS
"It is now more dangerous to be a woman than to be a soldier in modern wars," Maj. Gen. Patrick Cammaert, the deputy force commander of the United Nations Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo, once said.
Source: IAfrica.com
South Africa has an overall gender gap of 25 percent, as measured by economic participation and opportunity, education, health and political empowerment, yet its gender pay gap remains static at 35%.