Source: The New Dawn
The Monrovia Consolidated School System (MCSS) has a total enrollment of 22,585 for the 2013/2014 academic year, according to a report released by the MCSS. LINA says the MCSS report indicated that of this number, 11,349 or 50.3 percent are males, while 11,236 or 47.7 percent are females.
Source: Global Fund Observer
Advocates championing stronger measures to ensure more meaningful inclusion of women in the Global Fund's processes met in December in South Africa to harmonize efforts and develop a more results-based approach to integrating gender issues into national concept notes under the New Funding Model.
Source: The Herald
SEVERAL calls have been made to rescue women from the clutches of male dominance, but none of these calls seems to have made significant headway in improving women's lot. Cases of women being harassed in the streets, raped, indecently assaulted at workplaces and brutally treated by their spouses seem to be the order of the day leaving one wondering where society is headed.
Source: OSISA
In societies across the world, men are the overwhelming perpetrators of violence. Owing to this reality, and its horrific consequences for victims, there has been a collectivisation of men as agents of havoc. The brutality of their conduct has created a strong – and rightful – emphasis on the needs and narratives of their victims. Relatedly, the urgency of responding to male violence frequently forms the paramount objective of many organisations and institutions concerned with conflict stabilisation.
Source: allafrica
The first year of the Saving Mothers Giving Life initiative meant to reduce maternal mortality saw pregnancy-related deaths cut by a third, according to a report released January 9.
Saving Mothers' first annual report, Making Pregnancy and Childbirth Safe in Uganda and Zambia details outcomes from the first year of the five-year initiative which began in June 2012. It demonstrates that there is a 30 per cent decrease in maternal mortality in the target districts of Kabarole, Kibaale, Kamwenge, and Kyenjojo in Uganda and 35 percent in four of Zambia's districts.
This initiative is led by the U.S Global Health Initiative (GHI), in partnership with Merck for Mothers, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Every Mother Counts, Project C.U.R.E. and the Government of Norway. The U.S. committed $75m to this partnership.
"Uganda has not only seen a 30 per cent reduction in maternal mortality in the four districts participating in the programme, but has also registered a 28 per cent increase in the number of women who received prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/Aids services, said Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, Director General of Health Services during the report launch in Washington, D.C.
Source: The Observer
In this dry season when the arts scene is hit hard by the January blues, receiving an invite to the opening of Amanda Tumusiime's art exhibition at the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts was such a saviour.
Source: New Era
THE Association of Charismatic and Pentecostal Churches of Namibia (ACPCN) must acknowledge that churches have not been very prominent in speaking out against violence against women and children and that it seemed still remaining primarily as a women's struggle but we want to assure our women that we will intensify our efforts and actions to reduce the prevalence of GBV in our country as a whole.
Source: New Era
IKUMWE – A cultural revolution of some sort unfolded recently when for the first time the Masubia Traditional Authority selected a woman as the senior induna (senior headman or tribal chief), for Ikumwe area, some 55 kilometres east of Katima Mulilo.
Source: DailyTrust
Women from Agudama-Epie in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State yesterday staged a peaceful protest over the killing of a youth from the area, Mulai George, which according to them was due to the poor handling of a land dispute by the state government.
It would be recalled that crisis erupted bet-ween two communities in the area in November last year over a protracted land dispute. Daily Trust gathered that the crisis led to the killing of George, just as several members of the community were injured.
The women blocked the busy Agudama-Epie axis of the Mbiama-Yenagoa road for over two hours yesterday, thereby disrupting vehicular traffic.
About six persons linked with the crisis were arrested by the state's police command last year.
Pregnant women at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Ebute-Metta, Lagos, yesterday called for a review of a policy by which the hospital attends to only 20 women for ante-natal clinic. Some of the women, who spoke with newsmen in Lagos, appealed to the management to reconsider their stand on the policy, insisting that it was an unfair practice to pregnant women. The clinic holds only on Mondays.
MARIAM Peter, is a mother of 4, with the sixth on the way. She has had an interesting story with her last 2 pregnancies.
Source: Ansamed
Tunisia's Constitution prior to the revolution was far ''better'' for women than the one being voted on article by article in the country right now, the young Tunisian entrepreneur Soumaya Chouikha told ANSAmed. And this despite the fact that equality between the sexes has been enshrined in Articles 20 and 45 in the new one. "Now we have to struggle for any single right", she said.
WHEN Grace Bbayu (36), a resident of Mvumi village in Dodoma lost her husband in 2002, she thought that was one of the worst blows in her life. But more was yet to come.
Source: ANGOP
A special attention to rural women problems and promotion of programmes of support for the group stands as one of the main challenges for the ruling party?s women wing (OMA) this year.
It is estimated that 1,500 women and girls die every year from diseases brought about by lack of access to sanitation and water in the country.
Source: Executive Mansion
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called upon Liberia’s female lawyers, gender advocates and civil society to “think out of the box” and come up with suggestions on how to address the growing crime of rape of young girls in the country.
There has been some impressive progress in some countries in increasing the number of women cabinet ministers, but how do these women act once they get into their new posts? Chiedo shares her research findings on the topic.
Source: Tanzania Daily News (Dar Es Salam)
RECENTLY, in mid December 2013, the media reported that 21 girls aged between three and 17 were subjected to genital mutilation (FGM) in Same District.
Source: The Herald
Government has deferred the setting up of safe homes for gender based violence victims to next year owing to lack of funds.
Source: Huffingtonpost
On January 14th Tunisians will mark the third anniversary of the "Jasmine Revolution." Three years ago, three weeks of popular protests sparked by the self-immolation of a Tunisian street vendor culminated in the ouster of former Tunisian President Zine El-Abedine Ben Ali and triggered a series of events that would come to be known as the "Arab Spring."