Source: Daily Trust
First Lady Patience Jonathan has called on the National Assembly to enact a law on 35per cent participation of women in government. The president's wife who also called for a legislation that would guarantee the education of the girl child in Nigeria. Speaking in Lagos yesterday at the national conference on 100 years of the Nigerian woman, she said it was important for lawmakers to make laws that would support the growth of women in the country.
Source: UNESCO
“We are longtime partners because there are strong synergies between Intel and UNESCO, combining new ideas and innovation with our policy drive for quality education,” said Mrs Bokova after the signing at UNESCO Headquarters.
Source: UN News
Conflict-related sexual violence, horrific in itself, is also an impediment to national reconciliation and development, top United Nations officials told the Security Council at the start of a day-long debate, urging increased political and financial pressure on those who commit, command or condone sexual violence in war zones.
Source: This Day
The First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has asked the National Assembly to pass into law legislations on affirmative action to empower the Nigerian woman with 30 per cent political participation in the leadership of the country. Mrs Jonathan made this remark in Lagos while speaking during the national conference and dinner to mark the Nigeria centenary celebration of 100 years of the Nigerian woman.
Source: Vanguard
On the scale of 'ill treatment and disrespect shown to women's rape, may well weigh the heaviest, given its gruesome nature and violation of a woman's honour. There are many other acts of physical, verbal and psychological abuse, mostly domestic perpetrated against women even in the most civilised countries and societies that are symptomatic of a serious underlying psychological problem in the manner and way women are treated.
Source: United States Department of State
U.S. Mission to the United Nations
Remarks by Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo, U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations,
At an Open Debate on Sexual Violence in Conflict
Source: UN News Service
Conflict-related sexual violence, horrific in itself, is also an impediment to national reconciliation and development, top United Nations officials told the Security Council at the start of a day-long debate, urging increased political and financial pressure on those who commit, command or condone sexual violence in war zones.
The Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa, Soyata Maiga, declared Tuesday that gender-based violence has taken a criminal dimension in Northern Mali.
Countries across Africa are experiencing unprecedented urban growth, presenting women with greater economic and social opportunities as well as greater risks to their safety and welfare.
Aman Radio will be the first ever all-female station to hit the airwaves in Mogadishu, with a mission to raise the profile of Somali women and train them in the media.
When Kyambi Kavali, 52, first declared an interest in vying for the Mwingi North parliamentary seat in March 2012, the reception was worse than she expected.
Source: New York Times
The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday accused Syria’s army and intelligence agency and a pro-government militia of being sexual war criminals for rape and assaults on women and children, along with the al-Qaida movement in Mali and various African rebel movements.
Source: Daily Observer
Thirty female circumcisers in 336 communities in the Central River Region north over the weekend publicly declared their abandonment of the deeply entrenched traditional practice of Female Genital Mutilation, during a landmark fourth declaration ceremony held in Wassu village. The declaration ceremony, which came after the end of series of sensitisations and advocacy programmes by The Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (GAMCOTRAP), was described as a victory for the anti-FGM campaigners, and GAMCOTRAP in particular.
Source: The Zimbabwean
Tensions have been raised between the government and Renamo following the dispersal by police on 4 April of a large group of Renamo members who had gathered at their office in the town of Muxungue in central Mozambique, and a subsequent attack by Renamo on a police post in the same town that left four policemen dead.
Source: DailyNews
Ms MWANAJUMA Faki Mdachi, a member of the House of Representatives on the women's ticket, has said that many divorced women and orphans live in difficult conditions. She called the government to help vulnerable groups.
Source: The Point
A four sub-regional meeting of experts on education of girls and other vulnerable children opened yesterday at the Sunswing Hotel in Kololi.The programme, which brought together participants from ECOWAS member states, is part of ECOWAS Education Sector’s efforts to promote universal access to quality education and training opportunities, as well as harmonize admission criteria into educational and training institutes in member states.
Source: The Point
In order to reduce both maternal morbidity & mortality rates in The Gambia, the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of The Gambia, on behalf of their respective governments on 27th August 2012 signed an “agreement on the Maternal Health Improvement Program in The Gambia.”
Source: The Citizen
“They belong to a generation of damaged men,” said Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi at a dialogue on gender-based violence hosted in Johannesburg yesterday.
The National Council for Women was criticised in a Shura Council session on women's rights.
Source: New Times
When carrying out school visits, Girls in ICT members speak to teenage girls and encourage them to consider ICT as a career option and also help them to understand and appreciate the importance of developing ICT skills in any career, writes Doreen Umutesi