How do we end violence against women and girls? It's the million dollar question. A multi-million dollar question, in fact, because gender-based violence is riding high on the development agenda for the first time, and funding commitments have followed.
Source: The New York Times
The United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday that an estimated 7.6 million people around the globe were displaced because of conflict or persecution in 2012, including 1.1 million refugees and 6.5 million people who were displaced within their own countries.
Source: Daily Monitor
Imagine a mini-bus filled with women in khangas, lessos and kitenges, Ugandan gomesi, Rwandan mushanana, Burundi imvutano wearing colourful headgear. They are trying to drive a bus but it is wobbly because the tyres are of different sizes, it has no steering wheel and no roadmap. Before your imagination runs wild, let us explain what this imagined vehicle is.
Source: Medical Daily
South Africa is a country torn by political violence, sexual violence, and HIV epidemics. Many studies have been done on South African women, dealing with rape, unwanted children, and infection by HIV. But what about the men?
Source: IPS
“If there was enough political will to defeat hunger, we would defeat it right now – immediately,” says Enrique Yeves, chief of corporate communications at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
The overcast sky is a sign that it might rain, and Happy Shongwe, a smallholder farmer from rural Maphungwane in eastern Swaziland, is not exactly happy.
Closing the gender gap between women and men on agriculture and food security could free over one hundred million people from hunger.
Nothing is as powerful as a community itself seeing the harm being done to its own children and deciding – collectively – to end that practice."
Source: International Labour Organization
Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the first woman to head the African Union Commission, urged African Member States and international partners to invest more in order to promote job creation in the region.
Bit by bit, cities are becoming safer for women and girls around the world, whether it is the woman vendor at the market in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, who is now able to safely sell her wares, or the girl who can now walk the streets of Quito, Ecuador, thanks to a change in the city ordinance on violence against women that now includes sexual harassment in public spaces.
Source: Daily News
PRIMARY school pupils in Rukwa Region have complained that some parents in the region force their daughters to drop out of school so as to get married. The parents benefit from this under-age married because suitors pay a dowry.
Source: Daily Observer
Forty-two communities in seven districts in the Upper River Region (URR) are the latest to drop knife as efforts towards the elimination of the deeply rooted traditional practice of Female Genital Cutting or Mutilation gained momentum.
Tanzania Women Chamber of Commerce (TWCC) has begun women’s rights and duties training for ‘cross-border’ entrepreneurs who have been sidelined from fully participating in their trade activities undermining potential benefits that they would have otherwise enjoyed.
As the country marked the end of a month dedicated to women and girls, yesterday, several officials said the performance of women in managing business and accessing financial facilities at banks is steadily growing.
The annual report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict highlights progress made in 2012 to protect children living in countries affected by conflict, but also documents how the evolving character and tactics of war are creating unprecedented threats for them.
The National Council for Women has finished drafting its bill aimed at confronting violence towards women.
Source: Daily Monitor
IN SUMMARY: To achieve political integration, the treaty must first address the gender parity principle that will bolt all the parts of the vehicle and give the women drivers a strong vehicle.
Source: Ekklesia
Botshelo Moilwa, a young African woman from Gaborone, Botswana, has called on churches to affirm the dignity of women amid the realities of HIV and AIDS and sexual violence, if they are to realize the Christian vision of justice and peace.
Source: International Labour Organization (ILO)
In her first visit to the International Labour Conference, Malawian President, Joyce Banda, says that despite global efforts, child labour remains a “huge problem”.
Source: Radio Dabanga
A 27-year-old woman and her two daughters of five and seven were killed when a "Sudanese Air Force Antonov" bombed their home on the outskirts of a village in East Jebel Marra on Sunday.