Kenya’s nominees for cabinet secretary positions, who include an unprecedented number of women – six out of 18 – will undergo a gruelling public vetting process by the Parliamentary Committee on Appointments Thursday.
Source: United Nations
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's remarks at a special event on "Meeting the Challenges of the Health Millennium Development Goals and Beyond", in New York, 6 May:
UNAIDS has commended the government of Rwanda for its leadership in the national AIDS response. The country has made significant progress in its HIV response and is on track to meet national and global HIV related goals.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today highlighted the role that the private sector can play in contributing to improve maternal health services across the world through the United Nations Every Woman Every Child initiative.
Women must play a greater role in South Sudan’s political life, from drawing up the country’s constitution to translating it into law, a United Nations official has urged, as the African nation prepares to draft its first legal framework.
Source: Bikya.news
Egyptian women are livid after an advisor to President Mohamed Morsi said that statistics on sexual harassment and sexual violence in the country are “exaggerated.” Omaima Kamel, on the Board for Women’s Affairs, said on Wednesday that the Interior Ministry should “provide realistic numbers” on violence against women in the country.
The United Nations has asked member states to step up their efforts in fighting violence against women and girls.
Source: Sudan Vision
This part is from a report “Ending Violence against Women: A Challenge for Development”, the report was written by Francine Pickup with Suzanne Williams and Caroline Sweetman and published by OXFAM GB.
Researchers in Africa are collaborating on a project that aims reveal the barriers affecting women who run micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs).
Source: Sierra Leone Government
On behalf of the people of Sierra Leone, and in my own name, I welcome you all to Sierra Leone. We feel very honored to be hosts of this seminal Mano River Union Conference on Energy and Gender. I am glad that we are focusing on Women's empowerment through access to energy.Women's Empowerment and Energy Access are two major national priorities for me and my Government.
The Place, Tokeh Village, Western Rural District, 7th May, 2013/ His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has said that women's empowerment and access to energy are two main priorities for him personally and his government as a whole.
Source: Front Page Africa
The Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated proudly and resolutely joins the Ministry of Gender and Development, the Gender-Based Taskforce, and the leadership of the Republic of Liberia in the fight against sexual assault and rape perpetuated against our women and girls.
Parents in Kisii were on Friday discouraged from forcing their daughters to under the outlawed Female Genital Mutilation and instead opt for an alternative rite of passage.
n October 2011, Compass Group Southern Africa, a food services company, placed South Africa third in the world in obesity rankings, after the United States and Great Britain.
Since its emergence in 2007, Pink Pearl Foundation has shown its dedication, determination, and assertiveness in eradicating breast and cervical cancer in Nigeria.
Source: Aswat Masriya
For the purpose of a video report on sexual harassment in Egypt, 24-year-old actor Waleed Hammad dressed as a woman to experience the assaults firsthand.
A baby's birth day is the most dangerous day of life--in the United States and almost every country in the world--according to Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers report, released today.
The gender conference will see women talking about new strategies to enhance the economic capacity of women through gender budgeting.
Mollin Siyanda, 46, a single mother of three from Harare’s low-income suburb of Hatcliffe, is scared of being arrested by the council police as she sells fruit, vegetables and second-hand clothes on the pavement of the city centre without a permit.
Source: IPS
Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, a human rights lawyer and the general secretary of the global rights network World YWCA, knows what it is like to struggle against poverty and violence: she herself comes from a poor family in Magaya village in Murewa district, which lies northeast of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare.