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.
The National Congress failed to reach an agreement on the draft electoral law that will guide elections of the Constitutional Assembly for Libya at its most recent session on Monday, July 8th.
Source: The Independent
Microsoft last night announced the winners of the 11th annual Microsoft Imagine Cup, a worldwide competition for student technologists,
Charity Salima, 54, has helped to deliver over 4,000 babies in her maternity clinic in Area 23 – one of Malawi’s poorest and most populous townships – and has yet to record a single pregnancy-related death.
Source: Robert F. Kennedy Centre for Justice & Human Rights
Ms. Ragia Omran, a leading Egyptian human rights lawyer and women’s rights activist, has been selected as the honoree for the 2013 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, now in its 30th year.
We the undersigned participants at a strategic meeting on Women’s Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods, held in Cape Town on 3-4 May under the auspices of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), wish to communicate the following key messages from our deliberations to the World Economic Forum-Africa meeting “Delivering on Africa’s Promise”, 8-10 May 2013
On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol), the Coalition of the campaign, Africa for Womens’ Rights : Ratify and Respect reiterates its call for the continental ratification of this progressive instrument within the African human rights system and for its effective implementation.