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
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.