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.
Deputy President William Ruto’s wife, Rachel, has asked women to speak with one voice and participate in groups that promote their empowerment.
Source: The Herald
WITH only a few days to go before the year comes to an end, different societies, communities and individuals across Zimbabwe and elsewhere have started taking stock of their achievements during the course of the year. In the same vein, they are also assessing the challenges they came across, huddles they could not overcome and pitfalls that came their way while trying to forge ahead.
Source: The Point
Domestic abuse, also known as spousal abuse, occurs when one person in an intimate relationship or marriage tries to dominate and control the other person. Domestic abuse that includes physical violence is called domestic violence.
More African women are becoming active participants in business as entrepreneurs and leaders in the corporate world. Dr Susan Mboya-Kidero is one of Kenya’s leading women in the corporate world. Mboya is president of The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation and Coca-Cola’s Group director for Women’s Economic Empowerment for Eurasia and Africa.
Lozwi Longinai was preparing for her wedding day last month in northern Lingate village, but at the last minute her groom changed his mind after realising that his 18-year-old fiancée had not been circumcised.
Source: FrontPageAfrica
Women participation and inclusion in politics and public offices have been the leading controversy for the decades. Liberia has been no exception to this global phenomenon. The country to some considerable degree has subscribed to women inclusion in major decision making processes in various national institutions.
Source: Media Fundation in West Africa
The already low level of women's participation in public discourse seems to be getting worse. The latest report from the Media Foundation for West Africa's gender-monitoring project has revealed that women's participation in media discourse in the month of November has gone down. Comparing the findings to that of the preceding month (October 2013), the report shows that women's participation in media discourse reduced by 6%.
Source: The Point
The Youth Alliance-The Gambia, in collaboration with the Gambia College Press Union, yesterday organised a debate and drama on gender-based violence on the theme: "From Peace in the Home to Peace in the World: Let's challenge Militarism and end Violence against Women".
Source: Voice of America
Analysts estimate women farmers produce about 90 percent of the food in Africa. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization adds that two-thirds of African women find jobs in agriculture. Leaders of organizations that advocate on behalf of African women farmers met here to develop ways of making agriculture more profitable for them.
Source: The Point
The seemingly unending reports of violence against women in our society will soon be a thing of the past, if the new Domestic Violence Bill 2013 passed by the National Assembly on Tuesday is anything to go by.
Source: The Star
FORMER Prime Minister's wife, Ida Odinga has asked expectant mothers in Nyanza region deliver their babies in health facilities. She said this will reverse the high infant and maternal mortalities.
Madiba is easy to praise. His compassion, reconciliatory nature and generosity inspired the world in 1994 and will continue to inspire people. Yet today South Africa is not as equal as it should be. And the inequality is felt most acutely by women. Many women feel cheated. They were part of the struggle, too.