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.
On Thursday, the international community recognises World Population Day, a time of assessment, discussion and projections for the future that necessarily gives great weight to the rights of women and girls and particularly their sexual and reproductive health.
Source: Trust
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Kenya’s dire maternal death rate may finally fall thanks to the introduction last month of free maternity services for women, with some hospitals reporting a 50 percent increase in deliveries.
In some Democratic Republic of Congo schools, teachers and senior authorities are using their status to abuse girls who do not know their rights, according to the African Association for the Defence of Human Rights.
Investment in women’s reproductive health, often neglected by many countries, increasingly is being recognised as an essential component to achieving gender equality, greater productivity and the physical and economic health of families, communities and nations.
Source: FARA
Women farmers may be the pillars of African agriculture and the African economy, but they would better placed to contribute to poverty eradication if they were given the right opportunities and mechanisms.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
A Marriage Bill which seeks to unify Kenya’s various marriage-related laws and customs and strengthen women’s rights in marriage was introduced to parliament on Tuesday and caused uproar among Kenyan men, many saying it is ‘punitive’ and should not become law.
Source: Women24
When two FHM staff joked about rape and corrective rape earlier today, and I was shown the image, I just sighed loudly. Where does one begin?
African-born Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka says she would like to see women's rights more prevalent. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, a former South African deputy president, has been appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the head of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women.