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
Source: Daily Trust
In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) is a human reproductive technique that has not been totally embraced by Nigerians. But at the 10th anniversary press briefing held in Lagos, Dr Abayomi Ajayi, Managing Director, Nordica Fertility Centre told Daily Trust that it is not just the ordinary Nigerian that is suffering from the ignorance, some elites have the same issues.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday at a forum on global women's issues that the rights of women represent "the unfinished business of the 21st century" in the United States and around the world, receiving a rapturous reception for one of her first speeches since departing the Obama administration.
Source: Media Institute of Southern Africa
ONLY the poor and less influential women are most likely to die from unsafe abortions, women's rights activist, Seodi White, has said. White was presenting a paper in Zomba on Monday at a workshop for editors from different media houses in the country on unsafe abortions.The workshop was organised by the Media Institute of South Africa (Misa- Malawi) with funding from Ipas Malawi.
Source: New Era
THE law of diminishing returns is a theoretical concept that during my years of study changed my whole outlook and perspective on life. In actual fact, this term has helped to make things that could have been very complicated very simple and clear to me.With the persistent increase in crime, particularly the rape and murder of innocent women, this concept and that of the law of attraction has perpetually been on my mind.
Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Few customers come to the simply named Beauty Salon in Kampala's Kisenyi slum, but for refugee owner Rosette Wabenga, it is still a dream come true.
Source: Afrique Jet
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. Maiga made the remark at the ongoing 53rd Ordinary Session of the Africa Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in Kololi, Gambia.
Source: Wral
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is alarmed at the rapidly deteriorating security situation in the Central African Republic and is strongly condemning violence against civilians by rebels who overthrew the government three weeks ago, the United Nations said Tuesday.
Source: Aidspan
AIDS Accountability International (AAI) has released a report on the participation levels of women, girls and groups marginalised by sexual orientation and gender identities (SOGI) on Africa’s country coordinating mechanisms (CCMs).
Senegalese opposition politicians denounced the country’s high unemployment rate to mobilize youth against former President Abdoulaye Wade in the country’s 2012 presidential election. Joblessness was one of the main issues that drove the country’s many young people into the streets and to the voting stations to press for a change of government.
Source: The Guardian
Anti-pornography bill would outlaw 'provocative' clothing on women, censor film and TV and restrict personal internet use.
Dozens of women from the Sahel have met with the United Nations envoy to the region and the world organization’s top official for women’s issues, at a conference to recommend ways to boost economic recovery, political stability and conflict prevention in the troubled African region.
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have launched their Global Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhoea, which aims to end preventable child deaths from these conditions by 2025. The launch was supported by the publication of a series of articles in the medical journal The Lancet showing that the tools to accomplish this goal already exist, and that the targets should be achievable at a reasonable cost.
Salafi Al-Nour Party Shura Council member Mohamed Al-Azab called for a distinction between “fairness” and “equality”
Source: Tanzania Daily News
THE government on Friday ruled out the possibility of castrating men found guilty of impregnating mentally handicapped and other disabled women, only to abandon them afterwards.