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.
Source: eNCA
Johannesburg - African countries have some of the highest levels of physical and sexual violence against women in the world.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
DR Sunday Alfred Dominico, a specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, is a Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Research and Publications Coordinator at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Dodoma (UDOM). Recently, Dr Dominico, who is a Consultant for World Lung Foundation on maternal health (External Communication), granted this exclusive interview to Our Staff Writer,
Source: ERTA
The African Union Commission said on Thursday “African Vision 2063” has to be owned by the peoples of Africa at all of its stages.
Source: Huffington Post
An easy win for girls?
Changing the world is a tough job. There are so many issues fighting for attention, we all sometimes feel the urge to shut down rather than to engage.
Should more aid money be directed to organisations and institutions in the recipient countries, rather than via international NGOs and companies? Even though some progress has been made since untying aid became a core part of the Paris aid effectiveness agenda, vast amounts are still given to organisations based in donor, not recipient, countries.
Source: Daily News Egypt
The Presidency’s Initiative to support Egyptian women’s rights and freedoms organised a workshop on Tuesday under the patronage of President Mohamed Morsi to discuss women’s political rights.
Source: Euronews
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: Guardian
A new report from the World Health Organisation has drawn together data from dozens of studies and found that worldwide, 35% of women have experienced violence - and that the consequences for their health can be devastating
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