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.
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.