Source: The Daily Observer
Former speaker of the National Assembly and now a women and girls' rights defender has been appointed member of the Board of Governance and the national president of the African Women Foundation for Nation Building (WINDB), the Daily Observer has gathered.
Source: The Star
Sitting on the floor of her one room home besides her daughter and granddaughter, Catherine Adhiambo (not her real name) seems to be edging towards her wit's end.
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: IRIN
OUAGADOUGOU- One-third of all pregnancies in Burkina Faso are unintended and a third of them end in abortion, according to a study published this month by the University of Ouagadougou and the reproductive health think tank Guttmacher Institute,
Source: Christian Aid
Christian Aid welcomes the UN Women's Commission on the Status of Women's (CSW) clear, unequivocal support for a standalone goal to address gender inequality within the post-2015 agenda.
Source: Angola Press
Namibe — The governor of the south-west province of Namibe, Rui Falcão de Lucas, Monday here considered the women as the right bet for development of the Angolan economy.
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: Leadership
The Federal Government and European Union (EU) in Abuja on Monday signed a 10 million-Euro (N2.1 billion) financial agreement to support women's engagement in peace and security programme in Nigeria.
Source: Daily Maverick
What is the point of having women make up half of Parliament, if they vote for laws that put girls and women right back into the 19th century? This is happening today in Mozambique.
Source: SA News Agency
The Department of Social Development will on Tuesday launch a 24-hour call centre to provide support and counselling to victims of gender-based violence.
The toll free number to call in order to speak to a social worker for assistance and counselling is 0800 428 428 (0800 GBV GBV). Callers can also request a social worker from the Command Centre to contact them by dialling *120*7867# (free) from any cell phone.
The Command Centre will be symbolically launched soon after Human Rights Day, commemorated in South Africa annually on March 21.
Source: The Guardian
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.
The report, published by the advocacy group One and the World Bank on Wednesday, found that despite women comprising more than half the continent's farmers, political indifference and social constraints mean productivity on female-managed plots is significantly lower per hectare than those managed by men.
Source: The Star
When Lillian Mwita learnt that village elders and members of her family planned to coerce her into circumcision, she ran away from home. She took refuge with anti-FGM crusaders where she lived for over five months. The nine-year-old pupil at Boherera Primary School in Migori county says that the plan to make her undergo the cut was in preparation for marriage.
"I would never accept the cut whether they brand me an outcast or not. I am young. I have big dreams for my future and what matters to me now is education," she says.
Source: MANA Online
Gender-based violence in the country dropped by 52.9 per cent in 2013, says the National Community Policing Office.
The police attribute the decline to vigorous sensitization campaigns they conducted in liaison with community leaders and other stakeholders.
In an interview with Malawi News Agency (Mana), National Child Protection Officer, Insp. Alexander Ngwala, said the country registered a high rate of Gender-based violence (GBV) cases in 2012 as compared to 2011 and that this forced the police to strengthen their outreach to the communities through community policing structures.
Source: Aljazeera
Kenya's parliament has passed a bill allowing men to marry as many women as they want, prompting a furious backlash from female politicians.
Source: Commdiginews
DALLAS, March 22, 2014 — Experts believe that education is a powerful factor in alleviating poverty, improving public health, and promoting healthy societies. However, in much of the world, girls — and poor girls in particular — have difficulty gaining access even to primary education.
Source: UN NEWS CENTRE
Despite some improvement in the security situation of the Central African Republic (CAR) – especially in the capital, Bangui – conditions remain grave for civilians and sexual violence continues to be used by all parties during attacks, particularly against women and children, a United Nations envoy discovered during a recent trip to the country.
Source: UN WOMEN
"For a long time, water was a constant problem in our village, and we women definitely felt the impact," explains 29-year-old Maria from Kingolwira, a small village in the mountainous region of eastern Tanzania. "Especially during the dry season we had to walk for eight hours to reach the river [in the Uluguru Mountains], which was contaminated. You
Source: Ahram
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: Enough Project
Army and rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have long used sexual and gender-based violence, or SGBV, as a weapon of war. Rape, sexual enslavement, and torture are inflicted on women, children, and men to manipulate group psychologies and weaken social networks by instilling fear, distrust, and shame at multiple levels of a community.
Source: Project Syndicate
SEATTLE – Africa's GDP is now growing faster than any other continent's. When many people think about the engines driving that growth, they imagine commodities like oil, gold, and cocoa, or maybe industries like banking and telecommunications. I think of a woman named Joyce Sandir.