Source: Alert Net
Nairobi — 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.
Source: Women's WorldWideWeb
Maternal mortality is, even in the 21st century, one of the world’s major health threats: every 24 hours, approximately 800 women die as a result of (often entirely treatable) complications related to pregnancy and childbirth.
Participants to the Command Post Exercise (CPX) codenamed "Africa Unite" Ending Violence Against Women and Girls in a group photo with Officials after opening ceremony, Kigali.
In Kenya, 82 percent of midwives correctly diagnose their patient's condition but only 28 percent give the full treatment required, the World Bank said on Friday, highlighting the challenge of reducing maternal deaths in the country despite the introduction of free maternal health services last month.
Between May 27th and June 1st 2013, the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin held a Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy and Human Rights “Towards a Global Human Rights Culture: The Need for a Collective Alliance in the Protection & Promotion of Human Rights”.
Source: paulkagame.com
President Kagame has said that in Rwanda, ending violence against women and girls is a moral duty, a legal obligation and a definition of who Rwandans are as a nation
Source: Irish Times
Imagine starting a country from scratch. That’s what it feels like everyone is doing in Sierra Leone, a country now 10 years out of a civil war, but still struggling to restore infrastructure to pre-war levels.
Source: AllAffrica
Lilongwe — President Dr. Joyce Banda has called on non-governmental organization to help the country in fighting against gender based violence.
Source: Pambazuka
On 11 July 2013, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women (the Protocol) turns 10.
Source: Iol News
Throughout the world, boxing is a dance that is common to all people. And despite the pains and injuries that are associated with it, it still has that great entertainment value.
Source: AllAfrica
Today, July 11, Uganda joins the rest of the world to mark the world population day under the theme: "Invest in preventing teenage pregnancy; Let Girls be Girls". Teenage pregnancy continues to be prevalent in Uganda.
Source: AllAfrica
The vice president and minister of Women's Affairs has underscored the need for more investment in adolescent girls for their own sake, stressing that educated and healthy girls will have the opportunity to reach their full potentials and have their human rights.
Source: Voice of America
Thursday, July 11, is World Population Day and the focus this year is on adolescent pregnancy. It’s estimated that 16 million teenage girls give birth every year. Many are in African or other developing countries.
Source: TRUST
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Maputo Protocol, which marks its 10th anniversary on July 11, has attracted controversy for its provision authorising “medicalised abortion” for women who have been raped or where pregnancy endangers the woman’s health.
Source: AllAfrica
Aiming to help develop a road map for women's engagement in efforts to bring peace to Africa's long-trouble Great Lakes countries, the United Nations envoy for the region has gathered nearly 100 women, including ministers, for a three-day meeting in Burundi to underscore the fact that "women's leadership matters."
Source: Daily Monitor
Resty Nakayenga is a Senior 3 student at Kasambya Parents Secondary School. Nakayenga, who is a mother of a one-and-a-half-year-old child, says she was raped and made pregnant at 16 by a 40-year-old man whom her father had introduced to the family as “uncle.”
Source: Forest Peoples Programme
Fifteen organisations working with indigenous women, including Forest Peoples Programme, have joined forces to emphasise the injustice and multiple forms of discrimination suffered by indigenous women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the Committee).
Source: ICPD
Dr. Nafis Sadik's Keynote address at the ICPD International Conference on Human Rights
Thank you for your warm welcome. And let me say a special ‘thank you’ to our hosts, the Government of the Netherlands, whose strong leadership and warm participation has been such a strong and lasting feature of the last 20 years.
The United Nations named former South African deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka to head the gender equality body U.N. Women on Wednesday, after former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet stepped down to pursue another presidential bid.