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.
Source: AllAfrica
PRESS RELEASE
Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Professor Hlengiwe Mkhize, Program Director
Source: IPP Media
Renowned gender trainer and specialist Rose Mjema has cautioned that the new constitution would be rendered useless if it does not dwell seriously on matters concerning women's rights.
Women's political representation is vital to securing greater gender equality, feminists and others argue. Africa has made great strides in electing more women to its parliaments.
Source: IPS
Malawi's President Joyce Banda knows a thing or two about women's empowerment. After all she is the first female southern African head of state.
Source: IPS
Each summer, wealthy male tourists from Gulf Arab states flock to Egypt to escape the oppressive heat of the Arabian Peninsula, taking residence at upscale hotels and rented flats in Cairo and Alexandria.
Source: Good Governance Africa
Marieme Bamba, a 57-year-old solar engineer, said she was just a "young girl" when her genitalia were cut, maybe seven or eight years old.