Source: Media Global
For decades, the Central African Republic (CAR), a Landlocked Developing Country (LLDC) in Central Africa, has been afflicted with the challenges of endemic poverty, poor health, and weak governance.
Source: Sahara Press Service
Participants in a forum on violence against women, organized Monday in Tipasa, agreed to denounce all forms of violence against Saharawi women by the Moroccan occupier.
Source: Voice of America
The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS - UNAIDS - says every hour 50 young women become newly infected with HIV. Many of those infections are related to violence.
Source: UN News Service
Today is an opportunity for each person to recommit to ending the harm being committed against one out of three women, senior United Nations officials said marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
AS part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence, activists in Zanzibar are organising a 'special' forum where victims of gender violence, law enforcers, magistrates and other stakeholders will discuss violence against women.
Source: The Herald
A woman has caused a stir in the Temaruru area in Rusape after she set up an "abortion clinic" at her homestead which has resulted in the death of one of her clients and a still birth by another.
Source: Zimbabwe Independent
WOMEN and girls in Zimbabwe are carrying the burden imposed by local and central government’s failure to provide uninterrupted clean and safe water to the majority of the capital’s residents, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
Source: UN News Service
The United Nations agency leading the response to the AIDS epidemic is calling for an end to gender-based violence, which is not only a serious human rights violation but also increases the risk of HIV infection.
Source: UN News Centre
Outlining the array of challenges faced by United Nations police in peacekeeping missions, top UN Police officials today stressed the necessity of increasing the number of women officers for success in fulfilling their mandates.
Source: Vanguard
The Medical Director, Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Dr Femi Olaleye, on Friday said breast cancer killed one in every 25 Nigerian women.
Source: Daily Trust
The umbrella body of women organizations in the country, the National Council for Women Societies (NCWS) has condemned the decreasing number of women in appointive positions in the country.
Source: The Standard
CASES of young girls who are being sexually abused even by the very people who are supposed to guard and watch over them are a cause of concern to gender experts and officials.
Source: The Star
A 17-year-old girl died on Monday after trying to abort a pregnancy. The girl, a form two student at Lwala Mixed Secondary School, died while being treated at Migori Level Four Hospital.
Source: The New Times
While many never dream about going to school once they clock 40 years, it is a different story for 45-year- old Beatrice Uwizeye. Over three decades after dropping out of school, Uwizeye is determined to get to the pinnacle of her education dream.
Source: Trust
Uganda has one of the world's highest unmet needs for contraception, leading almost 300,000 women to seek backstreet abortions each year - with many dying as a result, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) said in a new report released on Wednesday.
Source: The Star
More than 1,000 girls are lined up to undergo Female Genital Mutilation in Baringo, Pokot and Marakwet counties during the December holidays. In Loboi location of Marigat district, a local politician is among those secretly planning to have a circumcision ceremony for his two daughters.
Source: The Star
More than 1,000 girls are lined up to undergo Female Genital Mutilation in Baringo, Pokot and Marakwet counties during the December holidays. In Loboi location of Marigat district, a local politician is among those secretly planning to have a circumcision ceremony for his two daughters.
Source: New Era
About five hundred people are expected to stage a protest march today starting in Katutura to the Windhoek Central Hospital where they will hand over a petition demanding that the government set aside plans to appeal a High Court decision last year in which the court ruled that three women were sterilised without consent and were therefore coerced.
Source: The Point
The Network Against Gender-Based Violence recently organised a one-day training on gender-based violence for law enforcers of various disciplines in the country.
Source: The Herald
FOURTEEN Zimpapers reporters yesterday attended a two-day workshop on gender reporting. The participants were drawn from The Herald, Sunday Mail, Manica Post, Kwayedza, H-Metro and Star FM. The workshop, hosted by Gender Links, is designed to prepare journalists for 16 days of activism and how to report issues from a gender sensitive perspective.