Source:Government of Ghana
As part of activities marking the International Women’s Day celebration, the first ever Ghana Women’s Summit was organised to celebrate the achievements of Women in the country.
Source: The New Dawn
The United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA Liberia Representative has called for “innovative ways of preventing violence against women and girls” in the country.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
The Embassy of United States of America in Tanzania has conferred Ms Jane Magigita- Milyango the 2014 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Drum Major for Justice Award in recognition of her efforts in advocating women's legal rights.
Source: The New Dawn
In commemoration of International Women’s Day, 8 March, the third regional workshop on gender, climate change, and land and forest tenures in Africa will take place in Monrovia under the auspices of REFACOF or African Women's Network for Community Management of Forests, the Foundation for Community Initiatives and the Rights and Resources Initiative.
Source: Premium Times
The Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Program, NSRP, on Monday urged state governments to adopt new strategies for the reduction of violence against women.
Source: Deutsch Well
In an unusual move, the World Bank postponed a $90 million loan to Uganda over its anti-gay law. But the maternal health project for which the funding was intended is not at risk.
Source: The Economist
Our budgeting process follows a very regular and easily detectable IMF benchmark pattern if one knows what one is looking for. This typically leads to a rather conservative budget approach requiring all sorts of semantics to define and defend anything that deviates from this pattern.It also displays a regularity which, I assume is part of the bigger picture
Source: Daily Observer
One very important thing the world must have realised now is that decades of alienation of the women folk has deprived the world of their invaluable contributions. We in The Gambia are grateful for the fact that we were among the first few to have seen the need to adjust to the inevitable. This came about as a result of the foresight and intellect demonstrated by a thoughtful government.
Source: The Point
A two-day sub-regional Islamic scholars dialogue to end female genital mutilation, FGM, organised and hosted by Gamcotrap in collaboration with Save the Children is under way in Banjul.
Source: The Star
It has been 30 years since the first case of HIV was reported in Kenya. Although a lot has improved since then, including access to free anti-retroviral drugs, stigma is still rife.
Source: Daily Trust
Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi is the Executive Director of the Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC), a leading civil rights group demanding governance accountability and promoting women’s human rights in Nigeria.
Source: SA News
Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has launched a new contraceptive device, which will from June, be available to women, free at all state clinics.
Over 10,000 women and children are at risk of being killed or seriously injured by former or current partners in the UK, according to police assessments.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
Hai — IGNORANCE of the law is the main cause of gender based violence escalation in Hai District, a lawyer has said.
Source: Inter Press Service
Zanzibar — The story of Feiza*, an 18-year-old girl who was abducted and raped, is a bleak testament to the worsening plight of women in Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago, Zanzibar.
Source: Daily Observer
The International Visitor's Leadership Programme (IVLP) Gambia chapter on Tuesday launched the Women Empowerment Project during a three-day workshop at the Tango conference hall, along Bertil Harding Highway.
Source: The Financial Gazette
FROM birth she is expected to adhere to the cultural, traditional and societal dictates expected of her. At adolescence she may be pushed into an early marriage or end up with an unwanted pregnancy.
Source: The New Times
The First Lady, Jeannette Kagame, has said Rwanda is determined to fight gender-based violence and has urged the public to join efforts to stop the vice
Source: Daily Observer
The vice president of the Republic and Women's Affairs minister, Her Excellency Aja Dr. Isatou Njie-Saidy, was Wednesday morning briefed about the activities of Coca Cola Company, including the bottling firm's global project of empowering five million women entrepreneurs by the year 2020.
Source: UN Women
We the Ministers of Gender and Women’s Affairs from African Union Member States met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 6th and 7th February 2014 to deliberate on progress made in the achievement of the MDGs and reach consensus to strengthen gender equality and women’s empowerment in the Africa Common Position on the Post 2015 Development Agenda.