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.
Source: A Safe World for Women
Interview with Mirina Nanziri, Field Partners Coordinator & Editor, EACO Uganda.
Source: SciDev Net
Developing countries are the most efficient innovators, achieving results in areas such as scientific research, infrastructure and technologyproduction with relatively low inputs, a report indicates.
Source: Foreign Policy
Not content with dominating IPOs on Wall Street, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are taking their can-do, failure-conquering, technology-enabled tactics to the challenge of global poverty.
Source: New Times
Besides being a disgraceful, shameful and belittling trade, they only saw an option to survive in plying the so called oldest profession, mainly because most of them were uneducated. This is a tale of 95 former commercial sex workers who decided to quit the dishonourable trade of selling their bodies in exchange for petty cash.
Source: The News
The Youth Exploring Solutions (YES), a passionate, non-profit and voluntary youth-led development organization that is primarily a self-sponsored institution since its inception in 2007 has launched its project named and styled 'Enhancing Women's Participation in Leadership and Governance' in the Borough of New Kru Town on the campus of D-Tweh Public School.
Source: Daily News
EDUCATED Muslim women have been urged to study their religion in order to understand their role in the society.