Source: Aljazeera
Human Rights Watch recently released a report documenting the torture and sexual abuse of women held in prisons in Iraq. Tragically, such reports are all too familiar. Stories of women raped and subjected to other forms of sexual violence in South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and Syria reinforce the common perception that sexual violence against
Source: Dar Es Salam
A research carried out by the Tanzania Media Women Association (Tamwa) has shown that gender violence is perpetrated notoriously in most Zanzibar Districts.
Source: All Africa
A Nigerian organization dedicated to promoting the rights of women in the country's legal systems has received a major award from an American foundation for its "outsized impact" in improving the lives of people and communities.
Source: Africa Renewal
Do land, seeds and crops have a gender? Perhaps they do in sub-Saharan Africa, where women produce up to 80% of foodstuffs for household consumption and sale in local markets, according to a report by the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). For crops such as rice, wheat and maize, which make up about 90% of food
Source: Premium Times
A former Minister of Women Affairs, Josephine Anenih, has suggested the castration of rapists to serve as a deterrent to men with such tendencies.
Source: Voice of America (VOA)
The head of the U.N. agency that fights for gender equality and the empowerment of women said Wednesday that women and children have borne the brunt of the conflict in South Sudan, and called for women to play a leading role at peace talks under way in Addis Ababa.
Source: Vanguard
Dr. Ada Chenge is a renowned politician in Benue State and presently, the only female gubernatorial aspirant in the contest for the 2015 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP gubernatorial ticket.
Source: The New Times
Hundreds of Rwandan women took part in the 'One Billion Rising for Justice Walk last week.One Billion Rising is a global campaign seeking to end all forms of violence against women and girls.
Source: Sudan Tribune
(KHARTOUM) – An 18-year-old Ethiopian woman who said she was gang raped by seven men in Sudan has been found guilty of committing indecent acts and is also facing a possible jail term for immigration offences.
Source: Sudan Tribune
Khartoum — An 18-year-old Ethiopian woman, who was gang raped by seven men in Sudan, is facing a possible death sentence after being charged with adultery and prostitution.
Source: This Day
The Lagos State Government has given the statistics of maternal mortality recorded in its public health facilities between 2010 and 2012 to be 714 women.
Source: The Star
Former MP and new chair of the Anti-Female Genital Mutilation board Linah Kilimo attended the launch of a new campaign to fight the vice at the Panafric Hotel in Nairobi last Thursday evening.
Source: allAfrica
Bukoba — RESIDENTS in Kagera Region have been urged to make use of the Police Gender Unit and report incidents of gender based violence.
Source: The World Bank
Washington — The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved support to Togo that will help the country offer lifesaving health and nutrition services to over 1.3 million people, nearly 60 percent of whom are women and girl children under the age of five.
Source: New Era
WINDHOEK – The Women's Action for Development (WAD) has joined a call by the National Council's women's caucus for President Hifikepunye Pohamba to declare "a state of emergency" on gender-based violence (GBV).
"Her (Margaret Mensah-Williams, deputy speaker of the National Council) foresight is commendable and slots in perfectly
Source: The Independent
The rate at which Ugandan women are dying from unsafe abortion is alarming, Dr. Charles Kiggundu, one of Uganda's leading Gnaecologists and Obstetricians has said.
Source: This Day Live
NECA's Network of Entrepreneurial Women (NNEW) in conjunction with a coalition of women associations representing over 1.5 million members Tuesday called on the federal government to increase the number of women participants at the forthcoming national conference.
Tanzania Media Women's Association (Tamwa) will today, launch a Gender-Based Violence (GBV) survey report which was conducted in December last year in 20 districts on Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar.
Source: New Era
The Minister of Information, Communication and Technology (MICT), Joel Kaapanda, yesterday decried the latest spate of barbaric murders targeting Namibian women.
We have all reasons to celebrate the birth of a new legal regime that will regulate and provide for the rights and responsibilities of spouses in relation to matrimonial property.