SOURCE: Premium Times
The local council elections held on Saturday in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, have again brought to fore the low representation of women in Nigeria’s politics and governance.
SOURCE: Premium Times
It has often bothered me that 26 years after we arrived in Beijing and committed to the 12 critical areas of concern for the advancement of women worldwide, we are still talking about those things that undo us as humanity and disempower us as a nation. I was a proud delegate to the Beijing 1995 women’s conference and even then, conversations about giving women a fair and equitable chance to contribute to national development were met with all manners of obstacles. But as Maya Angelou famously declared, “Still we arise.”
Source: BBC News
Enatha Cyuzuzo est l'une des rares femmes ingénieures de chantier dans le secteur florissant de la construction au Rwanda.
À seulement 26 ans, vous la trouverez sur les chantiers en train de superviser les hommes et les femmes qu'elle emploie, certains étant bien plus âgés qu'elle.
Ingénieure civile, elle s'est lancée dans la construction en 2019 après avoir obtenu son diplôme, en créant une entreprise qui soumissionne pour des projets de logement dans l'est du Rwanda.
Source: PREMIUM TIMES
A total of 55 candidates contested to be the chairpersons of the six area councils. Only three of the candidates (9 per cent) are women.
Source: Nile Post News
Women with disabilities have asked government to avail them with employment opportunities such that they can improve their lives.
SOURCE: DW
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said Friday that women had faced "unimaginable" horrors in conflict-torn regions of Ethiopia.
SOURCE: Capital FM
A recent local news item on combating gender-based violence brought to light the deep-seated reasons that force women to stay in abusive relationships. The survivor of the violence narrated how her partner made her stay in the violent relationship by psychologically abusing her and making her believe that she had no option but to stay with him.
Source: SA News
Government is intensifying the fight against Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) this year, through implementation of the National Strategic Plan (NSP) on GBV and other measures to promote the empowerment of women, says President Cyril Ramaphosa.
SOURCE: Capital FM
Civil bodies led by Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK), in partnership with Urgent Action Fund – Africa, Coalition On Violence Against Women pointed out that most GBV centers have relegated their duties in giving support and justice to victims.
SOURCE: VOA
A radio program in Nigeria is helping break through conservative culture barriers by highlighting cases of gender-based violence, or GBV. Even before the COVID-19 lockdowns, many women and girls were victims of GBV.
SOURCE: Vanguard
The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, says with an estimated 19.9 million survivors, Nigeria accounts for the third highest number of women and girls who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, globally.
SOURCE: The Conversation Africa
Most (90%) new cervical cancer cases and deaths are in low- and middle-income countries. What are the key factors driving this?
Cancer of the cervix is a disease of inequity of access to healthcare. It is an almost entirely preventable disease. Here’s why.
Source: Forest News
Known throughout the industry as “oil palm mamas” or “market queens,” women play a competitive role in Ghana’s informal oil palm sector.
SOURCE: UNFPA
Last January, UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem became the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Champion on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment (PSEAH). During the year-long championship, she met with survivors and service providers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan and advanced progress to end sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. As her championship concludes, she reflects on what she has seen over the past year.
SOURCE: WHO Africa
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is based on principles of equity. As such, in renewed efforts to strengthen equity and gender responsive health systems in Nigeria, the World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) to develop guidelines and policies that will aid in addressing key gender issues in the country.
“Gender inequality remains a critical challenge in the health sector and UHC can only truly be achieved if gender and other drivers of inequalities within the health systems are actively considered and addressed”,said Dr Olumuyiwa Ojo, a WHO Technical Officer during a retreat for all key stakeholders in the health sector organized by WHO in Abuja, December 2021.
Source: Daily News TZ
The Government has called upon members of the community to support fight against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) subjected to girls and children in the country.
SOURCE: New Era
Breaking the archaic patriarchal status quo on land ownership, 75% of the 271 houses recently constructed by MTC were awarded to low-income earning women. Following MTC’s massive announcement in 2017 to invest N$10.7 million towards housing with the Buy A Brick project, this investment now boasts a total of 271 low-cost houses built country-wide through the Shack Dwellers Federation, and women have received the most keys to these houses.
SOURCE: Leadership
House of Representatives ad-hoc Committee on Constitution Review has recommended the creation of 111 additional legislative seats in the National Assembly to be occupied solely by women beginning from the next general election.
Source: Vanguard Nigeria
Owhrode — Women of Owhrode, Ovwodokpokpo and Erhiephiyor communities, Udu Local Government Area, Delta State, have threatened to stop any form of political campaigns in their communities in 2023 unless the five ramshackle access roads linking the communities were constructed.
SOURCE: WHO-AFRO
A human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign that aims to immunize over 1.8 million 14-year-old girls in nine regions against HPV is underway. The campaign commenced on 10 January 2022 and will end on 22 January.