Yesterday was the deadline for nominations for Executive Director of UN Women. The candidates will succeed the organization’s first head, Michele Bachelet, who resigned suddenly in March to return home and stand for election to Chile’s presidency. At least six candidates are rumored to be under consideration.
The First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Mrs. Sia Nyama Koroma, has said in Freetown that access to energy is an integral instrument in the empowerment of women in the Mano River Union and Africa as a whole.
Speech by Lakshmi Puri, UN Women Acting Executive Director, during an interactive panel discussion on “Sharing Best Practices and Lessons Learned for Prevention and Prosecution in the Implementation of the Global Plan of Action” at the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the United Nations Appraisal of the Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons on 13 May 2013 at the General Assembly in New York.
Source: UN WOMEN
Saran Keïta Diakité is a lawyer in Mali and President of the Malian branch of the NGO Working Group on Women Peace and Security (Réseau Paix et Sécurité des Femmes de l’Espace CEDEAO). As the Donor Conference on Mali starts in Brussels, in her own words she speaks about the atrocities occurring in her country,
Source: New Dawn
Authorities of the Liberia National Police (LNP) have strongly blasted junior officer Rufus Kortee assigned in Saniquillie, Nimba County, for speaking with the media over a reported rape matter linking three personnel of the Emergency Response Unit (ERU).
The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Tanzania has long been a beacon of traditional culture to many Africans – and for Westerners on safari through Maasai Mara, Samburu or Amboseli, a familiar face.
It was an ambitious plan to circumcise the majority of men in Swaziland, an effort to reduce the risk of HIV transmission in a country with the world's highest HIV prevalence. How could it have gone wrong?
Source: New Dawn
Three officers of the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) of the Liberia National Police have reportedly ganged raped a 23-year-old woman in Yekepa, Nimba County.
The ERU officers had earlier offered the victim a lift in their car, but while on the Yekepa-Sanniquellie highway, they stopped and held the victim at gunpoint before raping her, the Ministry of Gender Child Welfare Office in Nimba has reported.
Source: Cameroon Tribune
Barely 48 hours after her consecration as Miss Beach 2013, Valery Kesse Ayem has embarked on field work. Thus on Tuesday May 14, the 19-year-old beauty queen made a stopover at the Douala based office of the Cameroon News and Publishing Corporation (SOPECAM). After a brief presentation of the different services, she was received in audience by the Littoral Regional Director, Alain Tchakounté.
Source: Vanguard
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, has trained no fewer than 50 female student-journalists in 11 tertiary institutions in the South-West on investigative journalism.
Source: The Herald
There is no doubt that the first quarter of the year can best be described as historic and one of the few momentous occasions where both men and women in support of gender parity have witnessed many landmark decisions taking place in a short period of time to address discrepancies in
gender issues.
Source: The Chronicle
Thousands of Women, mostly from the Christian community, last Saturday thronged the Golden Jubilee Park in Kumasi in search of Mr. and Mrs. Right. The few men present were also desperately looking for women as lifelong partners.
Source: The Chronicle
Over 120 women, drawn from various women's groups, movements and associations in Bolgatanga, have advocated the immediate passage of the Affirmative Action Bill into law.
The proposed Affirmative Action Bill final draft, which was validated in April this year in Koforidua, if passed into law, would ensure the Ghanaian government keeps to its promise of a 40% quota of representation for women in key decision-making positions, using the affirmative action directive.
Source: Daily Observer
The Methodist Women's Federation Gambia will be hosting the West Africa Area Seminar of the World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women, from the 20th to 24th May 2013. The seminar will host over 350 women delegates from more than 8 countries under the theme, "Women and food security".
I am constrained to tackle the matter of women's mindsets again, because the more I consider women's problems, the more I get convinced that the situation can get much better and brighter, if only women changed their mindsets.
Source: AfriqueJet
Despite the growing recognition of the interconnected nature of gender inequalities, globalisation, climate change, poverty and communicable diseases, among others, gender equality remains a missing link in many development policies and programmes, Ethiopia's Minister of Women, Children and Youth Affairs, Zenebu Tadesse, said here Tuesday.
Source: African Union
WELCOME REMARKS OF THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION CHAIRPERSON, H.E. DR. DLAMINI ZUMA TO THE WOMEN'S CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE ON PAN AFRICANISM, RENAISSANCE AND AGENDA 2063
12-13 May 2013, Addis Ababa
Source: African Union
African Ministers of Women and Gender Affairs hold their 5th Ordinary Meeting in Addis Ababa
Under the theme of the 50th Anniversary of the AU "Pan Africanism and African Renaissance", the Fifth Ordinary Meeting of AU Ministers of Gender and Women's Affairs held Tuesday, 14th May 2013, at the headquarters of the AU Commission (AUC), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Source: New Times
So we now know that over 500 young school girls between the ages 10-18 carried unwanted pregnancies in different parts of the country, according thanks to the 2012 Gender Based Violence (GBV) in Schools report, released early this month.
The number could be even bigger, and plainly put, we are facing a sex scourge in our schools.
Source: New Vision
Research done in Uganda shows that the average Ugandan child starts smoking at the age of 13. In tobacco growing areas like Arua district, the initiation age is even lower, with some children taking to the habit at the age of nine.
In such areas, research shows, 61% of smokers expose their family members to second hand smoke. Second hand smoking can be fatal to a person who does not smoke at all.