Source: Weekly Trust
A group, Concerned Women of Nigeria, has appealed to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to establish filling stations in rural areas to make kerosene available at the official rate to rural women.
Source: The Rwanda Focus
Rwanda joined the rest of the world in marking the One Billion Rising for Justice campaign against gender-based violence.
Source: The Star
The Nairobi Women's Hospital held its sixth annual anti-gender violence campaign dinner at the Arboretum Gardens in Nairobi on Friday night. A campaign to sign up one million fathers to join the fathers' movement against gender-based violence was launched at the event.
Source: TANZANIA 24
EFFORTS by women to engage in productive activities to fight poverty must be augmented by deliberate allocation of at least five per cent of district and municipal council's annual income.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
ALMOST 20 per cent of women in child bearing ages in the country are at risk of having problems with their fallopian tubes due to increased abortion.
Source: The Standard
Last week government embarked on a crackdown against illegal housing in Seke communal lands and Chitungwiza, in a move reminiscent of the 2005 Operation Murambatsvina (Restore Order), which left thousands of people homeless.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
Sumbawanga — GENDER Based Violence (GBV) can best be addressed through awareness drives spearheaded by the media to rid society of aggression which is a violation of human rights.
Source: Sudan Tribune
A US-based South Sudanese women organisation has released the first of a series of peace commercials urging its negotiating team in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to reject violence and embrace peace.
Source: Punch
The Niger Government on Thursday distributed 55, 000 breast cancer testing kits to 25 local Government Areas in the state to stem the spread of breast cancer.
Source: All Africa
Sierra Leone's record on women's rights will be examined by the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on Wednesday 19 February in meetings that will be webcast live from Geneva, Switzerland, a release issued yesterday by the United Nations Human Rights Office disclosed.
Source: Cajnewsagency
Abuja — DELTA State government has commissioned a 100-bed maternal and childcare centre at the Warri Central Hospital.
The State Governor Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan said the free maternal and child care schemes were borne out of the high premium government placed on the health of women and children.
Source: Manaonline
Blantyre — President Dr Joyce Banda has appealed to female reporters to write stories that paint a positive picture of women leadership ahead of May 20 tripartite elections.
Source: SW Radio Africa
About 200 police officers Friday blocked members of Women in Zimbabwe Arise from petitioning Bulawayo resident minister, Eunice Sandi Moyo.
Source: Trust
A new women's centre in a refugee camp in Liberia has been set up and is ready to deal with different women's issues. DRC has identified different challenges faced by females – and they will be addressed in the new centre.
Source: The Point
The controversial and sometimes sensitive debate regarding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has intensified in Europe, as British MEP Marina Yannakoudakis successfully called for a ‘special FGM hearing’ at the European Parliament.
Source: AlertNet
The Somali government should deploy police officers to protect vulnerable women in camps for displaced people and stop arresting and persecuting rape victims who try to report such crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday.
Source: UN News Centre
United Nations officials have marked World Radio Day by calling for harnessing the enduring power of this vital medium to promote gender equality and women's empowerment and to amplify the voice of women over the air waves.
Source: UN News Centre
While nearly 1 billion people have escaped extreme poverty in the past 20 years and child and maternal mortality have been cut by almost one half, much more work remains to be done to address inequalities and ensure the rights and dignity of all, especially women and children, top United Nations officials stressed today.
Source: Vanguard
AS the nation's agricultural sector continues to impact on the lives of Nigerians, Oxfam and other stakeholders, recently, advocated for women's right to agricultural resources and celebrate women farmers as well.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
THE government on Wednesday launched the cervical cancer community awareness and screening initiative with a call to women to have a tendency of checking their status on the deadly disease frequently.