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%.
Source: Daily News
Women's health is one of the issues that were discussed by Constituent Assembly (CA) women members, when they convened at Saint Gasper Hotel in Dodoma recently.
Source: UN Women
"I used to sell fish under the trees, and carry fish on my head. I would wake up at 4am to walk a long distance to buy fish from the fishermen. Now I sleep and wake up normal hours, and have my tea before the Captain comes. I never thought I would have time to sleep, eat, work and rest like this!
Source: African Renewal
In 1991, at the very beginning of Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war, a 19-year-old woman crossed paths with a group of 10 rebels, led by the notorious commander "Mosquito," just outside the town of Telu Bongor. "Mosquito was the first person who raped me," she later recounted.
Source: United States Department of State
Scents of onions, tomatoes and damp earth permeated the morning air as we spoke with representatives of women's associations in the Dî Perimeter, one of the Millennium Challenge Corporation's principal investments in Burkina Faso. My colleagues and I were visiting the construction site to listen to community members who received their newly irrigated land last spring.
Source: The New Times
With the negative role the media played in fanning the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, one would say it became the most unpopular profession to venture into in the aftermath of the Genocide. Women Today's Doreen Umutesi spoke to four Rwandan female journalists on what inspired them to join the profession despite its negative reputation.
Source: Vanguard
The teeming Nigerian women entrepreneurs,recently attracted the interest of international payment card solution providers, MasterCard, as it went into collaboration with Youth for Technology Foundation,YTF, in Nigeria,to boost entrepreneurial capabilities of over 1500 Nigerian women with technology hands-on trainings.
Through the Nigerian Women Entrepreneurs program, the partnership is targeted at female business owners from the Niger Delta region, providing them with business management and capacity building skills, while deepening their access to financial services.
Source: This Day
From across the country, more women are raising their voices about the Nigeria of their dream.
The conversations in the room were not different from the ones in the hallway. Women from different background gathered, but to speak with one voice. The socio-political atmosphere in the country had made it compulsory. So the 2014 Women's conference organised by an interdenominational fellowship, Daughters of Destiny drew women from all walks of life to the main auditorium of the Orchids Hotel in Lekki on a recent Friday. It was a potpourri of economic, political, financial and spiritual discourse that centred on the theme, "The Woman As A Change Agent."
The 16th Annual L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards were held at the Sorbonne in Paris last week (March 19) before an audience of personalities from the worlds of science, economics, academia and culture.
Source: BBC
Tunisia was praised for passing a progressive constitution in January that explicitly protects women against violence. But the protracted case of a Tunisian victim of police rape, who persevered in her pursuit of justice despite being initially charged with indecency, epitomises the challenges that lie ahead.
Despite a verdict in her favour, the 29-year-old woman, who is known under the pseudonym Meriem Ben Mohammed, is still too crushed to speak after the trial.
Source: The New Times
Oxfam Great Britain on Thursday donated 70 cross-breed cows to members of COTABORU Twuzuzanye Women's Cooperative in Rukomo Sector, Nyagatare District.
Innocent Hitayezu, the Ag Country Director Oxfam GB Rwanda, who handed over the cows to the Minister of Gender and Family Promotion, Dr. Jeane d'Arc Mujawamariya, said the donation was in line with the Rwanda government's poverty eradication programmes.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
Poverty and inferiority complex are among reasons which make women in Tanga region lead a hard life and thus expose them to gender-based violence.
To address gender violence women need to take the initiative to fight poverty by engaging in income-generating activities and thus contribute to the family's welfare.
Source: Premium Times
A delegate at the National Conference, Jummai Bello, shocked her colleagues when she lambasted the womenfolk for fuelling corruption in Nigeria.
Ms. Bello, a delegate of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, while contributing to the debate on President Goodluck Jonathan's inaugural speech, contended that if the women had performed their domestic roles well the nation would not be confronted with the corruption scourge.