Source: Africa Review
At the Itsali primary school, on a dusty road near Brazzaville's airport, all but one of the 20 teachers are women, a sign of the major gender shift in the Republic of Congo's educational system over the past two decades.
Source: Vanguard
Policemen attached to Adeniji Adele division have arrested a 22-year-old man who alleged kidnapped and raped a student of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Akoka, for turning down his advances
Three postgraduate students at the American University of Cairo have created a campaign with public service announcements addressing domestic violence against women.
Source: Vanguard
More than 100 African business women converged in Lagos recently to lend their voices on the need for more women participation in politics, entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation as tools for nation building. The women who came from four African countries:Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa advocated for women participation, especially in politics.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
A RECENT state report says that more than 3,000 poor children have been saved from the worst forms of labour and offered alternative means of earning a living. Some have been enrolled in vocational training institutions where they may acquire useful skills. This is delightful news but the story does not end here.
Seven-year-old Istar Mumin lies on a bed, motionless, in one of the rooms of her family home in Mogadishu’s Hamarweyne district. She has just gone through the horrifying ritual of “the cut,” which was carried out by a local Somali nurse.
UK Department for International Development (DFID) has approved 2 million Great Britain Pounds to promote and protect women’s rights.
The Female Lawyers Association-Gambia (FLAG) with support from Action Aid International The Gambia Saturday gathered stakeholders at a local hotel in Kololi for a day's seminar, designed at sensitising religious leaders and representatives of faith-based organisations on the critical issues in the draft Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Bills.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's remarks at the Security Council thematic open debate "Addressing impunity: Effective justice for crimes of sexual violence in conflict", in New York on 24 June:
The Security Council today sent a strong signal to perpetrators of sexual violence in conflict that their crimes will not be tolerated, adopting a new resolution to strengthen efforts to end impunity for a scourge that affects not only large numbers of women and girls but also men and boys.
Source: IPS
When Maude Taruvinga* votes in Zimbabwe’s elections later this year, she will be voting for her local female politician as she has placed her hopes for a better future on the presence of more women in this southern African nation’s legislature.
Source: Daily Trust
Lagos — Nigerian pregnant women have been advised to inculcate the habit of taking Omega 3 DHA during pregnancy so as to develop their baby's vital sensory organs right from the womb.
Source: Voice of America (Washington, DC)
A combination of strategies aimed at improving the quality of care for mothers in rural Malawi has dramatically reduced newborn mortality. Experts say it could be a model for similar programs in other countries with poor pre- and post-natal care.
Source: Georges W. Bush Institute
In less than two weeks, Heads of State, current and former First Ladies, government officials, academics, and representatives from non-profit and private sector organizations around the world will gather at the George W. Bush Institute’s African First Ladies Summit, “Investing in Women: Strengthening Africa” in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to focus on effective investments in women that lead to greater stability and prosperity in countries.
Source: UN WOMEN
We commemorate the third International Widows’ Day for the hundreds of millions of women in the world who suffer exploitation, deprivation and exclusion when their husbands die. There are more widows than ever before due to armed conflict, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and the age difference between partners, with many girls being married off to much older men.
Source: The Star
MEN in Kwale county confiscating their wives' identification c have been told to surrender them or face prosecution. A lawyer with Fida Kenya Christine Kipsang said it is illegal for men to keep identification belonging to their wives.
Source: AlJazeera
Girls centre wins landmark legal case to protect young women from rapists, but court ruling has been slow to take hold.
Source: Daily Monitor
Surveys carried out between January and June this year by the World Vision Uganda in Kiboga, Kyankwanzi, Bundibugyo, Hoima, Oyam, Soroti and Masaka districts indicate that child marriage and neglect are the most rampant forms of child abuses.
Source: The Star
WOMEN representatives have urged the Government to provide free nursery school education. The women will table a motion in Parliament for a law that will make free pre-primary education mandatory.
Source: Radio Dabanga
Seven women and girls from camp Bir Dageeg in Sirba locality have been raped at gunpoint by nine "pro-government militiamen" in military uniforms.