Source: Star Africa
The Project Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Dr Mourtada Deme, has stressed the need to drum up support for gender equality issues in the constitutional review process in Nigeria order to ensure favourable consideration during the debates by the Houses of Assembly in the states.
Source: Star Africa
The Project Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Dr Mourtada Deme, has stressed the need to drum up support for gender equality issues in the constitutional review process in Nigeria order to ensure favourable consideration during the debates by the Houses of Assembly in the states.
The July 2012 election of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to the position of Chair of the African Union represented not only a milestone in the continental body's history, but it also an affirmation that African women occupying leadership positions had come a long way since the Organization of African Unity was established 50 years ago.
Source: AllAfrica
Mogadishu — 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.
Source: AllAfrica
WHEN she was 13 years old, Margreth Kibasa was married off to a 40 year old man, dashing her hope of joining secondary school and eventually becoming someone important in society.
Source: AllAfrica
PRESS RELEASE - 2013 Commonwealth Women's Affairs Ministers Meeting concludes with strong resolve on women's leadership
Source:The Nigerian Observer
The violation of women’s rights both at the national and domestic strata have become burning and vexatious issues. What we find happening in this country as regards the denial to women of certain privileges and rights, much more pervades other nations of the world to some varying degree and extent.
2013 Commonwealth Women's Affairs Ministers Meeting concludes with strong resolve on women's leadership
More than a third of all women worldwide are victims of physical or sexual violence, posing a global health problem of epidemic proportions, a World Health Organization report said on Thursday.
Source: WNKU
Thirty-five percent of women around the world have been raped or physically abused, according to statistics the World Health Organization released Thursday.
Fourteen women held in El Obeid Prison, in Sudan’s Northern Kordofan State, were released on 26 April, but have been told that they may be charged in the future.
Source: BBC
The death of a 13-year-old girl during a genital mutilation procedure has brought the issue back into the spotlight in Egypt. While some Egyptians are fighting for the practice to be eradicated, others justify it in the name of religion, as the BBC's Aleem Maqbool reports.
First Lady, Sia Nyama Koroma has pledged her commitment to promote women empowerment to ensure gender disparity in governance.
Source: The Telegraph
The UN Refugee Agency is testing ground-breaking refugee camp shelters with solar lighting - the world's first - to help improve living conditions and reduce the risk of violence against women and children on camps.
Source: Women Deliver
In 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), governments worldwide recognized that ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health and protecting reproductive rights are essential strategies for improving the lives of all people.
Source: CNN
I recently left the Global Forum on Innovation & Technology Entrepreneurship in South Africa, inspired, empowered and hopeful, but extremely impatient to see radical changes to help women in Africa develop a world-class talent in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and businesses.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
PRIMARY school pupils in Sumbawanga municipality have literally accused their parents to the acting Regional Commissioner (RC) for Rukwa, Mr Iddy Kimanta, for withdrawing some of their number in order to marry them off to suitors, for a dowry.
Source: Premium Times
Are there countries in which women are worse treated than in Nigeria? Yes, I would say, there are, especially in those dictatorships that profess to practicing Islam in the way it should not, and in all those countries, where capitalism has transformed women into sex slaves.
The 200+ women grassroots leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo who call themselves "Maman Shujaa," which translates to 'Hero Women' in Swahili, have succeeded with their unprecedented campaign to pressure the US government to help end the escalating violence in their country.
Source: NewsDay
Women's participation in politics remains low due to several bottlenecks hindering efforts to ensure that men and women share 50% representation in the political arena by 2015 in line with the Sadc Protocol on Gender and Development.