Source: BBC Sport
A former basketball player in Kenya says sexual abuse has plagued the country's women's game "for many, many years" but that a climate of fear is preventing victims from speaking out.
Source: Nation
The government neglected her girls and women during the pandemic, exposing them to different forms of gender-based violence (GBV) – a new report shows. The I Had Nowhere to Go report released on Tuesday by the Human Rights Watch shows that Covid-19 exacerbated violence cases.
SOURCE: FRONT PAGE AFRICA
Women need the support of everyone from the community to government during their Menstrual Period and the need to help them advance hygiene sanitation during such time cannot be overemphasized.
SOURCE: GHANA TODAY
Providing opportunities for youth to create sustainable livelihoods for themselves has been a major challenge confronting many nations all over the world. To address this challenge, successive governments in Ghana have designed and implemented various employment and entrepreneurship interventions. Despite the good intentions, it is widely acknowledged that the government alone cannot address all the myriad of challenges confronting young people – the role and contribution of civil society and NGOs become important in complementing the efforts of the government.
SOURCE: THE CONVERSATION
In healthcare systems where resources are limited, it’s common for some conditions to be overlooked or misdiagnosed. This is especially true if the patient doesn’t have obvious symptoms, and if tests are unaffordable. Sometimes, healthcare providers look at a group of symptoms to reach a likely diagnosis. This so-called syndromic management is less accurate than laboratory-based diagnostics.
SOURCE: THISDAY
Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has said there is need to pave the path for a more equal, safer and inclusive Nigeria where women can optimally and effectively contribute their own quota to leadership at every level. Gbajabiamila, in his remarks yesterday at an intergenerational consultative and strategic dialogue titled, “Paving the Path: Forum for Women’s Participation in Political Leadership in Nigeria; Past, Present and Future, organised by the House Committee on Women’s Affairs in collaboration. She is doing it at the ElectHER, National Institute for Legislative & Democratic Studies (NILDS), with support from the Office of the Speaker, Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO), Global Affairs Canada, USAID, and UN Women, who charged women to come out to seek political offices as power is never served a la carte, said.”
Source: UNFPA East and Southern Africa
To make a difference in the lives of youth, government funding and multi-sectoral action are required to implement the nation's commitments to sexual and reproductive health, said First Vice President, Riek Machar. He was speaking at a high-level meeting on commitments made by South Sudan at the Nairobi Summit on the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 2019.
Source: ESI Africa
Eucharia Idoko knows the value of light through a solar power initiative by Solar Sister in Nigeria. The nonprofit works with women in Nigeria and Tanzania.
Source: The New Humanitarian
As the price of sanitary products skyrockets amidst Lebanon’s prolonged economic crash, a cohort of young women have taken it upon themselves to fight the country’s growing problem of period poverty. In doing so, they’ve also stirred up a conversation about eco-friendly alternatives, and challenged long-held cultural norms.
Source: UNFPA East and Southern Africa
Opinion editorial by Dr. Bannet Ndyanabanji, Regional Director, UNFPA East and Southern Africa
The South of Madagascar, known as the Grand Sud, faces its most acute drought in 40 years amid ongoing sandstorms, a locust invasion and the COVID-19 pandemic. In the grip of a climate-induced crisis, entire communities are being plunged into extreme poverty and hunger. Inevitably, women and girls are the hardest hit. UNFPA and partners are scaling up the response to the crisis but more needs to be done, and quickly, to avert further deterioration of the sexual and reproductive health of women and girls.
SOURCE: Thomson Reuters Foundation
In the 30 years that Josephine Muthoni has lived in Nairobi's Mukuru slum, she has never had a steady supply of clean water.
SOURCE: New Republic
More child bearing women and girls prefer home delivery over going to health facilities for safe delivery, stakeholders in the health sector have said. And this is largely due to fear of contracting the Covid-19 virus, they added.
Source: Nyasa Times
A youth initiative operating under the banner 10+ Her Period Her Pride on Tuesday donated reusable sanitary pads and tablets of soap to 58 primary and secondary school-going girls in the area of Traditional Authority (T/A) Chiseka as one way of promoting menstrual hygiene.
Source: Daily News Tanzania
PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has appointed Dr Stergomena Tax to be the Minister for Defence and National Service. She becomes the first woman to hold the title since the country's independence.
Source: NEW ERA
In its quest to assist women and youth in agriculture, Agribank disbursed loans to the value of N$43 million towards women, while another N$38.7 million benefited the youth, as clients under 40 years of age, during the 2020/21 financial year.
Source: AFRICANEWS
Taboos on menstrual cycles among girls have hampered their educational growth in Mozambique.
Most of the girls especially from humble backgrounds are unable to fully attend their classes due to the fact that the personal hygiene effects are expensive and at times not available in various rural stores and health facilities.
Source: UN Women Africa
This year, after decades of lobbying and advocacy, the women’s movement in Uganda has reason to celebrate – they successfully ushered the passage of amendments to two outdated laws through Parliament.
Source: FPA
MONROVIA – The Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding (CEMESP) on Tuesday, September 7, 2021, conducted intensive training for female bloggers and journalists on ‘Women’s Rights Online Issues’ in Liberia.
Source: Liberian News Agency (LINA)
Monrovia — The West African Network of Young Women Leaders, which goes by the acronym ROAJELF, has expressed concern about the peace and security of women and children amidst Guinea's "concerning" political development, and wants the international community to act faster to ensure the safety of the vulnerable population.
Source: LINA
In order to cut the increase in rape cases, Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor has urged the UN system in Liberia to use the US$26 million that it has for the fight against sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in the various communities.