Sierra Leone's government on Thursday introduced a bill that would ensure that 30 percent of parliamentary seats and cabinet positions are held by women in the West African state.
Source: Namibian
THE B2Gold mine and Omake Charity Organisation donated over 1 000 packets of sanitary pads to girls in the Okakarara constituency last week.
Source: Capital FM
The report which encompassed Kenya and Africa revealed that in Kenya, women were the most active sellers in e-commerce, with 51 percent of them being business owners on the Jumia platform.
Source: New Era
The Alliance of Christian Churches in Namibia (ACCN) has suggested government hold a referendum over the contentious issue of abortion. Reverend Dolly Nengushe, who is the executive chairperson of the ACCN board of trustees, believes the process of a referendum will help gauge the views of all parties involved.
Source: Nation
Kenya has outperformed the global average of female board directors after witnessing significant progress in board diversity and inclusion in the last nine years, a new report shows.
Source: Africa News
Source: UN News
The suffering of survivors of sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by World Health Organization staff during the tenth Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is going to be “the catalyst for a profound transformation” of WHO’s culture.
Source: The Conversation Africa
Domestic violence, also called intimate partner violence, is a global public health problem. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that almost one third of women experience some form of physical and or sexual violence from an intimate partner in their lifetime. According to the WHO, as many as 38% of all murders of women are committed by intimate partners.
Source: New Zimbabwe
DESPITE their immense contribution to the country’s food security, female smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe practicing agroecology (AE), and growing ‘women seeds’ particularly in rural areas are often discriminated against and not recognised by the government.
Source: Africanews
Nearly 100 women Tuesday became the first female judges to join Egypt’s State Council, one of the country’s main judicial bodies.
Source: Ghanaian Times
Network for Young Women Empowerment (NYWE), a non-governmental organisation in the Upper West Region, has appealed to traditional authorities and land owners to make fertile lands available to women in the region to undertake productive agricultural activities to enhance their livelihood.
Source: EqualTimes (EN/FR)
As soon as you enter the workshop, you can see bags containing a large quantity of sanitary towels. On this September morning, 1,300 locally produced pads are ready to be delivered.
Source: Nation
Kenya’s youngest Assistant County Commissioner Rehema Malemba Kiteto has urged young women to seek leadership positions in the 2022 General Election.She particularly singled out women who are passionate about leadership to vie for various positions from MCA, MP, senator and governor positions.
Source: IPS
Pascaline Chemutai’s five acres of land located in the country’s breadbasket region of Rift Valley recently produced 115 bags of maize, each weighing 90 kilograms. She tells IPS that of these, 110 bags will be transported to traders in Nairobi and neighbouring Kiambu County at a negotiated price of $23 per bag.
Source: Africanews
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regional Office for Africa has launched a new brief that advocates for seizing the opportunities of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) for the economic empowerment of women in agriculture. The publication is launched today to coincide with the International Day for Rural Women which is celebrated every year on 15 October to honour women and girls living in rural areas.
Source: UN Women
"In Tanzania, women make up more than half of the workforce in the agriculture sector. Majority of these women work on family farms and small plots of land without receiving any payment. Although women farmers in my country work very hard, many remain poor due to multiple barriers, including lack of access to land.
Source: The Guardian Nigeria
This year, the International Day of Rural Women (15 October), puts a spotlight on “Rural Women Cultivating Good Food for All.”
Source: This Day
The federal government has said that it is commencing the distribution of a new innovative HIV test kits for testing of pregnant women in the country.
Source: New Era
Namibia’s police chief has called for severe punishments for adults who rape children as a deterent for a crime that has become all too prevalent.
Source: Voice of America
A South Sudan women's rights activist has been named one of three winners of an award given by Amnesty International USA recognizing women who the group says "protect the dignity, liberties, and lives of women and children in crisis regions."
Source: The Guardian
Failure to ensure women have equal access to the internet hampering developing economies and fuelling gender inequality.