Source: Daily Observer
A three-day high-level international Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) Leadership Conference for 30 Gambians and 10 African-American teenage leaders ended Saturday evening with a banquet at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in Kololi where participants were presented with awards.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
HUMAN rights activists in the country are demanding that the government obliges and makes comprehensive reproductive health services available, in order to fulfill people's rights to life and health.
Source: Leadership
An independent United Nations human rights expert has stressed the need to hold States accountable not only for investigating acts of violence against women but also for failing to prevent such violence.
Source: This Day
After several cancelled appointments due to the nature of her job Chineme Okafor finally got close-up with Aisha Umar, the Abuja's pioneer female taxi driver. He writes about the life of a woman who breaks the jinx to succeed in a profession commonly reserved for menfolk.
Source: South African Government
Public Protector Advocate Thuli Madonsela has urged women to take a leading role in their various respective responsibilities to help in the transformation of society.
Source: The Point
The National Enterprise Development Initiative (NEDI) on Friday presented a rice milling machine to 'Boleba Kafo' (big basin), a women group at Illiassa Village, Upper Baddibu District, North Bank Region.
Source: Aswat Masriya
An Egyptian woman, who took her harasser to court in April after he physically attacked her for standing up for herself, now awaits his trial which is scheduled for next Wednesday.
Source: Aswat Masriya
U.N. agencies have called for the prosecution of an Egyptian doctor after a 13-year-old girl died while undergoing female genital mutilation at a private clinic. Egypt banned FGM in 2008 but it is still widely practised there, sometimes by traditional cutters but also by medical staff operating in secret.
Source: Asway Masriya
Thirteen-year-old Sohair al-Batea died shortly after a Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) operation was conducted on her Thursday evening at a clinic in the governorate of Daqahlia, a UN statement said.
Source: Huffington Post
Throughout history, making progress towards gender equality has been a long and hard fought battle. Today, the violation of women's rights in emerging markets and around the world still remains widespread.
Source: World Stage
On July 2-3, 2013, African First Ladies from across the continent will gather at the George W. Bush Institute's African First Ladies Summit, "Investing in Women: Strengthening Africa" in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to focus on the important role First Ladies play in promoting women's education, health and economic empowerment.
Issues in the previous two weeks looked closely at UNESCO and its approaches from an educational perspective.
During a meeting held in Kigali last week, women activists raised concern that there is a lot that needs to be done to have women playing a more robust role in elective politics within the East African Community. In an exclusive interview with The New Times' Sarah Kwihangana,
Source: DW
The female condom has been making its way across developing countries, particularly those in the African continent. While many see this as a woman's commodity, one man in Mozambique is actively campaigning for it too.
Source: Leadership
With the recent report of 60,000 pregnant women dying yearly in Nigeria, it then makes it 166 deaths per day of women that die due to pregnancy complications. These are the reported cases, what about those that are not reported? It is now a matter of urgency for government to do more to reduce the scourge.
Reluctance to report cases of sexual advances in exchange for jobs, mainly over fear of reprisal, complicate efforts to tackle the crime, activists have said.
Source: IPS
GULU, Uganda, Jun 4 2013 (IPS) – It is swerves and roundabouts for Keddy Olanya, a 32-year-old wife and mother of three from Gulu, northern Uganda, who is one of only a handful of female drivers negotiating the country's potholed roads on a bodaboda or motorbike taxi.
Source: AllAfrica
Celebrating five years of sharing positive ideas, Africa Gathering is back on 21-22 June. This year's theme is 'Hands-on technology: Rise of the makers, the dynamic and the disruptive thinkers in Africa'.
Source: Times Live
Cederberg mayor Jonas White has been suspended from the ANC for abusing the rights of women and children, the provincial disciplinary committee (PDC) said.
Source: Vibe Ghana
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has decried the continued perpetration of violence against women in Ghana and has called on civil society groups to help end canker.