Source: MISA
PRESS RELEASE
If Swazi women are to realize their rights as enshrined in the Constitution, there needs to be a holistic review of the marriage laws in the country.
Source: SouthAfrica.info
Gender-based violence, poverty and joblessness are the three biggest challenges facing women, says Gauteng Community Safety MEC Faith Mazibuko.
Source: The New Age
South Africa's culture of gender-based violence, patriarchal dominance and a lack of economic independence for women took centre stage at The New Age Business Briefing on the eve of Women's Day.
Source: AllAfrica
THE Governor of the Karas Region, Bernadus Swartbooi, has expressed concern over the increase in violence against women and children.
Source: AllAfrica
PRESS RELEASE
North West Premier Thandi Modise has condemned in the strongest terms the murder of a Coligny woman and called for intensified action against the scourge of gender based violence.
Source: Mail & Guardian
Two decades ago most South African women had no rights. They worked in menial jobs and lived their lives in the private sphere. Apartheid had disenfranchised them. Then, in 1994, things looked up as everyone became equal, at least in theory – the new Constitution said so, after all, and of course everyone could vote.
Source: AllAfrica
PRESS RELEASE
The United Nations Educational and Scientific Organisation (UNESCO) and its partners are calling for entries from various qualified organisations for its 2013 Global Alliance on Media and Gender forum.
Source: AllAfrica
PRESS RELEASE
Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) applauds Minister Jeff Radebe and the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development for re-introduction of 22 Sexual Offences Courts.
Source: Mmegi Online
The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Shaw Kgathi has said Botswwana is committed to championing gender equality in sports.
Source: The New Vision
Miriam is 26 years old and she has a 6months old baby. She got to know that she is infected when she was four months pregnant. She was so scared for her life and her baby's life.
Source: The New Vision
Breasts being the sensitive issue that they are will always be the hardest body part to touch on without drawing undue suspicions from readers.
Source: AllAfrica
Women's Month celebrations began at Freedom Park in Tshwane, the country's capital, where the struggle for women's emancipation and equality was commemorated with the theme "A centenary of working together towards sustainable women's empowerment and gender equality".
A Swazi woman was banned from being nominated to stand as a member of parliament because she was wearing trousers at the nomination centre.
Source: SANews
Pretoria – Government has announced that 22 sexual offences courts are to be reintroduced by the end of the current 2013/14 financial year, with specially trained officials and equipment to reduce the chance of secondary trauma for victims
Source: AllAfrica
For more than three decades, I have advocated for the African woman smallholder farmer. The farmers of the future may not be small, and are not necessarily only women.
Source: AllAfrica
PRESS RELEASE
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Dr Zweli Mkhize has committed himself and his cabinet to intensifying a campaign aimed at mobilising civil society to work with government to advance the rights of women. He was speaking today at the opening of KwaZulu-Natal Women Summit at the Royal Showground Pietermaritzburg.
Source: AllAfrica
A group of United Nations independent experts today warned that the rule of law in the Central African Republic (CAR) is "almost non-existent" as abuses of power and human rights violations have become pervasive in the country.
Source: UN News Centre
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has announced it will support programmes in eight African countries over the next three years to boost access to reproductive health services for millions of adolescent girls.
Source: AllAfrica
Menstruation in many societies is discussed in hushed tones. Unfortunately, the ripple effect is that young girls across the country are forced to drop out of school because they cannot deal with it, write Carol Ariba and Carol Natukunda.
Source: AllAfrica
"I need justice. My case was unjustly closed by the police!" That was the persistent cry of Mary Sunday, a graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, on whom a pot of stew and the kerosene stove, upon which it was boiling, were allegedly thrown at by her fiancé, a serving officer of the Nigeria Police, Corporal Isaac Gbanwuan.