Source: Newvision
The number of mothers dying in pregnancy and during childbirth has declined in the last one year in 8 districts that are piloting a US-supported initiative providing emergency obstetric and newborn care.
A three-day workshop will focus on international human rights instruments and strategies to defend the rights of women.
Source: UN Women
Around 600 women have been trained in literacy, entrepreneurship and other skills to enhance their physical and economic security.
Source: Daily News
A WEEK before Christmas, reports from the Police Gender Desk (PGD) at the Urban- West Police head Office in Zanzibar revealed how a 45-year old father defiled his own 12-year old daughter.
Source: The New York Times
The last month saw a sharp escalation of violence in South Sudan, with the usual impact on women and girls. The trauma has reverberated throughout the region, as the birth pangs of a new nation remain fresh.
Some Itsekiri women on Wednesday stormed the Delta Government House annex, Warri, demanding explanations on the fracas in Ugborodo community in Warri South-West Local Government Area.
Source: Heritage
The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) and UN Women have extended assistance to women groups in Gbarpolu County to foster empowerment of rural women.
As part of her efforts to alleviate poverty in Plateau State, especially among rural women and youths, First Lady of the state, Mrs. Talatu Jang, has embarked on training of over 25,000 Plateau women drawn from across the 17 local government areas of the state, on financial literacy.
Source: The Atlantic
From 1991 to 2002 civil war consumed Sierra Leone, killing more than 50,000 people. While the story of the war has been told in various forms (most notably the Hollywood movie Blood Diamond), far less attention has focused on the country's attempts to step out from behind the specter of violence.
Morocco aims to toss part of its penal code allowing rapists who marry their victims to go free, lawmakers told Al Jazeera Wednesday.
Source: IPPMedia
Domestic violence is any act or attitude that is likely to result in physical, sexual, cultural or psychological harm or suffering or death, which occurs in the family or community.
Source: Magharebia
Little has changed since last month when Moroccan women's rights NGOs staged a protest in Rabat to ask for reforms protecting women from abuse and violence.
Source: GlobalPost
Tunisia voted Monday to enshrine gender equality in its draft constitution, a key step towards safeguarding its relatively progressive laws on women's rights, with the ruling Islamists under pressure to compromise.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
How child-friendly is the country? The Child-Friendliness Index 2013, which also compares progress, reveals that those scoring highest as the 'most child-friendly' are Mauritius, South Africa, Tunisia, Egypt, Cape Verde, Rwanda, Lesotho, Algeria, Swaziland and Morocco.
Source: Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)
AS one searcher for the 2013 One Africa Award winner, it is true that the region is celebrating the incredible and ingenious organisations that have been finalists in the past.
Source: AlJazeera
A little more than a week after the Ugandan parliament passed a bill outlawing homosexuality, Frank Mugisha - a leader of Uganda's gay rights movement - turned up at a posh hotel in Kampala, the capital, to attend a gala for Ugandans working abroad.
Source: IFEX
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) today called for the immediate release of a journalist who was arrested in Las Anod, a town in the Sool region on Friday, 3 January 2014, while photographing a women's demonstration.
Source: AngolaPress
According to a note from the governor's office that reached Angop on Friday, the creation of the commission is intended to implement the national policy for the promotion of gender equality, defence and guarantee women and the family's rights.
AS the Federal Government intensifies efforts at achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), grassroots women leaders have observed that the continued exclusion of women from decision-making governance structures contributes to poor development indices and high rate of maternal mortality and morbidity.