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.
Source: UN News Centre
10 July 2013 – A senior United Nations official today stressed the need to ensure women can make their voices heard in Egypt without fear of violence, stressing that their right to take part in the country's public life must be protected.
Source: UN News Centre
Aiming to help develop a road map for women's engagement in efforts to bring peace to Africa's long-trouble Great Lakes countries,
Source: Chicago Tribune
The United Nations named former South African deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka to head the gender equality body U.N. Women on Wednesday,
Source: The Observer (Kampala)
This includes adolescents aged 10 to19, as well as youth aged 15 to 24. It is in this age-range that most young people begin to actively explore their sexuality and, therefore, require sexual and reproductive health information and services.
Source: Health-e (Cape Town)
Vhembe — The Mukwevho family of Mulodi Village are mourning the death of their daughter Betty following a botched illegal abortion last week.
Source: TRUST
It remains a fact that gender parity is a challenge for women across the globe.
Source: Daily Observer
The Central River Regional (CRR) health team on Thursday observed the Africa Maternal and New Born Morbidity and Mortality Day at Galleh Manda village, in Upper Fulladu west, CRR south
Source: AllAfrica
Different countries have taken measures and promulgated laws to fight violence against women and girls, but it is time to ensure they are put in practice and effective.
Source: AllAfrica
Governments and other actors must mobilise all the necessary resources to decisively end violence against women and girls in conflict and post-conflict situations, the Chief of Defence Forces has said.
Source: The Guardian
When Hussein was searching desperately for his son in the last days of the 2011 revolution that toppled Libya's dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, he was told of a villa in Tripoli. He and other anti-government fighters went there on 20 August.
Source: Chronicle
THE VICE President, Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur has commended the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Centre (KAIPTC) for training and equipping high-caliber personnel in the area of peace and security across Africa.
Source: Chronicle
The Action Aid Programme Manager, Mr. George Dery, has announced that a research into marriage by abduction in three districts in the Upper West Region has revealed that it is influenced by culture beliefs, poverty and societal pressure.
Source: Huffington Post
Healthcare facilities in Cameroon need much more than staff with medical training. This third world country needs to link clinics isolated by thick rainforest, desert, and rugged terrain. Sharing medical expertise via a reliable connection could mean the difference between life and death.
Source: IPS
It has been a month since the Kenyan government waived the maternity fee at public health facilities, but Millicent Awino is still one of the many expectant mothers in favour of a home birth.