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.
Source: eNCA
Gender activists urge women to familiarise themselves with the firearms Control Act and the Domestic Violence Act so to protect themselves against domestic violence.
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: New Democrat (Monrovia)
The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Thursday disclosed that the rate of maternal mortality in the country is still high despite a five percent decrease. Maternal death, or maternal mortality, also "obstetrical death" is the death of a woman during or shortly after a pregnancy.
Source: The Namibian
THE discourse on the gender quota has surfaced in Namibia again.
In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian Elizabeth Ohene recalls how she worked on a cocoa farm as a child without stoking any controversy.
Source: New Security Beat
“The places in the world where the environment is most fragile, women’s health is most fragile,” said Leila Darabi, director of global communications for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, at the Wilson Center.