Source: The Herald
Women should be acknowledged for their major role in farming and household and national food security, Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made has said.
Source: Daily Trust
Experts in maternal health continue to push for statutory review of deaths in pregnant women and mothers in efforts to account for the life of every mother, but insist political will is lacking.
Source: PR Newswire
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Worldwide — International Effort Includes Globe-athon "STEPtember" Pledge to take 10,000 steps a Day for Gynecological Cancer Awareness
Source: The Herald
President Mugabe has called for a nationwide campaign against abuse of women and children, saying imposition of stiffer penalties on perpetrators alone is insufficient to curb the crime.
Source: The Observer
Women have been urged to prepare themselves for business opportunities by getting market information to compete for the same jobs with men.
Source: The Daily Observer
The executive director of Action Aid International The Gambia, Ousman Badjie has said that Action Aid has ensured that its development agenda and interventions impact positively on the lives of people living in poverty, and that development is sustainable, relevant and appropriate to the lives and livelihoods of the poor,
source: Times Of Zambia
FIRST Lady Christine Kaseba has said contributions women make to the economic sector of the country and Africa as a whole should be recognised.
Source: UNDP
Esnart Siandavu, 49, is engaged in a passionate discussion with a group of farmers on how to grow better crops. Over the past 10 years, their Southern Zambian village of Muyumbela has been prone to extreme weather events such as floods and droughts.
Source: The Washington Post
A year ago, Egyptian politician and women's rights activist Mervat Tallawy defied the Muslim Brotherhood to spearhead the adoption of a U.N. blueprint to combat violence against women. Now she's back campaigning against conservatives to ensure that equality for women remains at the top of the U.N. agenda.
Source: International Campaign To Stop Rape And Gender Violence In Conflict
The International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict calls on the global community to take immediate steps to ensure an end to the current conflict in South Sudan, which is disproportionally impacting women and children.
Source: The Guardian
Six years after being gang-raped and beaten in front of her husband and four-year-old child during a wave of post-election violence in Kenya, Nancy is still awaiting justice.
Source: Urban Faith
For a while the most popular literature and television programming about black people captured no sense of African consciousness. We've been far removed from The Cosby Show which introduced many of my generation to Miriam Makeba or A Different World which introduced us to divesting from businesses that supported apartheid in South Africa. Those shows and others of the late 80s to early 90s taught my generation that we don't only have a history in Africa but our actions affect our present and future connection with the continent.
Source: Reuters Foundation
So it's not just women who think they should get a bigger piece of the pie, that's also the opinion of many of the speakers and participants at the World Bank's Land and Poverty Conference in Washington.
Source: Shabait
At an assessment meeting conducted in Haikota sub-zone call has been made to conduct integrated efforts to enhance female students' school enrollment.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
Investing in childcare and adult education and giving women farmers the same access as men to fertiliser and training, could significantly increase food production and improve their lives and that of their families, according to a report that highlights the deep-rooted gender gaps in Africa's agricultural sector.
Source: OSISA
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe ruled today that the State was liable for failing to provide a rape survivor with emergency contraception and ordered the government to pay damages.
Source: Malawi News Agency
Two form three girls (names withheld) have been dismissed from Michiru Secondary School in Blantyre for allegedly being found in a lesbianism act.
Source: ANGOP
The secretary of State for Family and Women Promotion, Ana Paula Neto, Tuesday in Luanda appealed to all actors of the civil society and parents to engage more to reduce gender violence, particularly domestic violence in the country.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
The African Director for ONE Campaign, a non-profit organisation, Dr Sipho Moyo, has expressed disappointment that Africa's women farmers, though they comprise nearly half of the labour force in agriculture, on average produce less per hectare than men.
Source: SA News
Pretoria – For too long, violence against women and children has remained a hidden scandal in homes and communities, says the Director General of Social Development Coceko Phakade.