Source: A Safe World for Women
On her recent visit, Bahati Valerie talked with villagers and COFAPRI members about education.
30 Egyptian NGOs have warned against amending the 2012 constitution, and have called for a new one, according to a Monday statement published on the website of the Arab Centre for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP).
Source: Huffington Post
On June 25th of this year, we launched a new report on the progress achieved to date through the Global Plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive (Global Plan).
WOMEN’S movements in South Africa are weak and should find new ways of recruiting women to fight for their rights, says former deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
Source: Newtime Africa
BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, July 23, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – The European Union has just endorsed an initiative worth 25 million euros to combat violence against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The Executive Director of the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre (GSHRDC), Ms Dorcas Coker-Appiah, has called on state agencies, departments, private organisations and enterprises to work towards removing social and cultural barriers militating against the progress of women.
It all started with a dream …. for a better future for our kids, for social justice for all citizens and for the kind of proper democracy and freedom that can stand up to the name of Egypt.
The Somali Ministry of Development and Social Affairs is drafting a bill that outlines a new gender policy for the country and safeguards women's rights, particularly in politics and education.
Source: CNN
As the world celebrates the long-awaited addition to the British royal family, it is worth taking some time to reflect on the women around the world for whom childbirth is not such a joyous, beautiful and celebrated occasion.
Source: Libya Herald
The NGO Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL) has welcomed the decision by Congress to reserve seats on the 60-member Constitutional Commission for women and ethnic minorities but has criticized the amount set aside for the former.
Source: The New York Times
A comprehensive new assessment of the ancient practice of female genital cutting has found a gradual but significant decline in many countries, even in some where it remains deeply entrenched.
Source: ABC
The United Nations children's fund, UNICEF, says more than 125 million girls and women have undergone female genital mutilation, and 30 million more are at risk in the next decade.
Source: AllAfrica
It should be a shame to men that incidents of gender based violence continue during men's month they are supposed to be committing themselves to promoting gender equality, North West Premier Thandi Modise said in condemning the strangling of a woman to death by her boyfriend who later took his own life in Klipgat near Mabopane over the weekend.
Source: Capital FM (Nairobi)
Nairobi — Even with a nurses' strike looming in the horizon, expectant mothers will most likely describe President Uhuru Kenyatta's first one hundred days in office as success.
Guinea-Bissau outlawed domestic violence on Friday, winning praise from women's groups in a country where an estimated 60 percent of females are physically or sexually abused.
Source: AllAfrica
The Solidarity for African Womens Rights Coalition recently met at the Silver Springs Hotel, Nairobi to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the AU Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa.
Source: Coastweek
NAIROBI, (Xinhua) -- A Kenyan lawmaker has urged African women not to stop at the one-third minimum that the African Union (AU) charter on women’s rights accords them on political equality, but should demand for even more.
Source: Sudan Vision
This chapter is from a book “Ending Violence against Women: A Challenge for Development”, the book was written by Francine Pickup with Suzanne Williams and Caroline Sweetman and published by Oxfam GB.
Source: Opinio Juris
The African region has long been perceived as a recipient, not a creator, of international human rights law.
Source: iol News
WOMEN'S movements in South Africa are weak and should find new ways of recruiting women to fight for their rights, says former deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.