The stage is all set as African women warm up for the 5th edition of the African Women in Leadership Conference on the 14th of June, 2013 at the prestigious Le Meridian Hotel, Uyo, Akwa Ibom state. Sponsored by The African Women in Leadership Organisation (AWLO), the forum is non-profit inclined with a membership that is open to all women
Source: New York Times
As Anene Booysen lay dying, she whispered to her medics the name of the man who had assaulted her and left her lying in the dirt on a construction site, her bowels spilling from her abdomen.
A three-day high-level international Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) Leadership Conference for 30 Gambian and 10 African-American teenage leaders opened Thursday at the conference hall of the Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (TANGO) in Fajara, Bakau.
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.
There was something deliciously serendipitous about the power going off in northern Kenya on May 27 just as Judge J.A. Makau read his much-anticipated decision in a case could alter the status of women and girls in Kenya and maybe all of Africa.
Source: The Observer (Kampala)
A new report released by the World Health Organisation says maternal deaths in Uganda have been declining at the rate of 5.1% annually over the last 10 years.
Source: Daily Trust
A total of 1046 women die in every 100,000 births in Zamfara State, State Team Manager of the Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunization in Northern Nigeria, Maternal New born and Child Health Dr Sani Dahiru Abubakar has disclosed.
Source: Pretoria News
Many countries in Africa will see their populations continue to increase during the next decade, with South Africa expected to reach 51 138 490 by 2020.
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Groups such as the World Food Program and Care are joining forces to create all-women-managed cereal banks in villages throughout the drought-prone Sahel region of Africa. They help protect against famine, but also empower women.
Source: International Rescue Committee
Structured group therapy has dramatically reduced symptoms of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a study carried out by the International Rescue Committee, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington.
Source: UN News Centre
Demography and technology are helping to transform the work force more quickly and deeply than ever before and the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) is poised to tackle the new challenges, the agency's chief today said opening a two-week conference.
Source: IRIN
More displaced women and girls - some as young as 13 - are turning to sex work to get by in Mali where 14 months of occupation and conflict have forced 475,000 people from their homes in the north, according to NGOs.
Source: All Africa
A new Lancet series on maternal and child nutrition examines the problems associated with undernutrition and successful interventions. A similar report released by Lancet in 2008 was critical in helping push nutrition higher on the development agenda.
Source: The New Vision
People with disabilities (PWDs) in Kasese district have been advised to avoid behaviour that may predispose them to acquiring HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
The importance of gender equality and the empowerment of women in driving development in Africa will be the focus of a high-level panel moderated by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V) on Sunday.
Source: INTER PRESS SERVICES
Marlyse Aboui, a 40-year-old nurse, has still not gotten over the astonishment she felt when she heard that Cameroon's President Paul Biya had nominated her to the senate.
Source: African Arguments
On June 5th, Governor Marcellin Chisambo announced a reshuffle of the government of the Congolese province of South Kivu. Three weeks ago, three ministers were thrown out following a motion of no confidence in the provincial Parliament. One of the new ministers is Adolphine Byayuwa Muley, 42 years old. She will lead the ministry of environment and agriculture.
Source: ScreenAfrica
Take a Girl Child to Work Day is the flagship project of South African cell phone network Cell C and enjoys a wealth of support from both public and private sector organisations. This year's campaign was aimed at girls in Grades 10 to 12 with the tagline, 'Empower a Girl. Empower a Nation'.
Source: RFI
Two French women and a German went on trial in Tunisia on Wednesday for holding a topless anti-Islamist protest in the capital, Tunis. The members of the "sextremist" group Femen could face six months in jail for "debauchery".
Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator Statement at Plenary 6: Report on Thematic Session 4 (Driving African Development Through Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women) at Tokyo conference Yokohama, Japan