Source: Vanguard
The Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Aruma Oteh has identified disparities in financial access, asset/land ownership, income, access to education and poor representation in decision making positions as the greatest threat to women entrepreneurs.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
A grouping of civil organizations, Women Coalition on Constitution Issues, has praised the recent move by the Constituent Assembly to vote a man and a woman as chairperson and deputy, respectively.
In a statement released in Dar es Salaam, the deputy Executive director of the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP), Ms Lilian Liundi, said the Constituent Assembly had so far been exemplary in illustrating gender balance in running business in the House.
Source: Diverse Education
Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Leymah Gbowee, scholars and international social justice advocates discussed women's rights movements in Africa during a symposium this week at Barnard College in New York.
Source: Thisdaylive
The Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ms Aruma Oteh, has called on Nigerian women to take advantage of the growth in all sectors of the nation's economy to enhance their well being and contribute more to the society.
Source: Times of Zambia
THE steps taken by President Michael Sata on International Women's Day are a strong foundation through which Zambian women can uplift themselves as they focus on the next 50 years.
Admittedly, the measures taken by the Republican President are a stepping stone for women in releasing their potential.
Source: Ground up
During the Khayelitsha Commission, community witnesses, academics and police officers related stories of appalling violence, particularly sexual violence. The picture painted is in danger of creating the impression that Khayelitsha is bad, that something is wrong with the community, that it is unsalvageable.
Source: Times of Zambia
WORLD Vision Zambia says it is spending more than K200,000 on its campaign against child marriages in Mumbwa District of Central Province.
Source: Angop
The contribution of women to the cultural, socio-political and economic fields was recognised Thursday in the northern Uige province by the provincial vice governor Maria Fernandes da Silva e Silva.
Source: The Daily Observer
The West Africa Network for Peace Building, WANEP-Gambia chapter has revealed that women are still victims of Gender Based Violence, manifested in the forms of rape, human trafficking, domestic violence and forced marriage amongst others which results to psychological and emotional trauma and abuse of their fundamental human rights.
Source: Gender Links
Speaking at CSW58, Dr. Nicholas Alipui, Director of Programmes of UNICEF explains how child marriage contributes to gender inequality and puts girls' health and lives at risk.
Source: Heritage
The Minister of Gender and Development, Julia Duncan Cassell, has said global efforts to ensure universal access to reproductive health by 2015 are facing challenges worldwide.
Source: Gender Links
New York — On the third day of CSW58 yesterday, members of the Southern Africa Protocol Alliance, the Malawi delegation and Gender Links hosted the side event Using the SADC Gender Protocol to push for a strong post 2015 Agenda.
Source: Gender Links
As negotiations for the agreed conclusions gain momentum at the ongoing 58th session of the Commission for the Status of Women (CSW58), it has emerged that women's rights are under threat.
Source: IIP Digital
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This story was originally published on the Millennium Challenge Corporation's website March 12 as "From all Angles: BRIGHT Schools Improve Girls' Education."
Source: RNW
A Ugandan blogger argues that war crimes against women are rooted in a security struggle that women have to deal with day to day.
Source: News 24
Two dozen men in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have launched a group to fight for women's rights in the region, which has been called the worst place in the world to be a woman.
Source: Financial Times
Mobile airtime is as precious to Lucia Njelekele as the chicks that are her livelihood. The poultry farmer relies on her mobile phone: for real-time information about demand for her 3,000 livestock from one of Tanzania's biggest supermarkets; to arrange transport; source feed; and consult her vet.
Source: PM News
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, is showing serious concern that an estimated 100 million girls and young women in low and middle income countries cannot even read a single sentence.
Source: The Observer
As Uganda celebrated the International Women's day at the weekend, three Ugandans were listed for awards by Women Deliver, a global advocacy organisation.
Source: New Security Beat
"If there was a perfect slum, Kibera would be it." The notoriously overcrowded and underserved settlement in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi captivates the public imagination, engendering visions of urban violence, poverty, and hopelessness, said Caroline Wanjiku Kihato of the University of the Witwatersrand at the Wilson Center on February 18.