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.
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.