Both International Women’s Day and Egyptian Women’s Day take place in March. The latter commemorates the day in 1919 when women staged their first demonstration in the country’s history. That revolution saw women wave small flags as they called for freedom and independence, shouting slogans against the British occupation.
Source: Al Arabiya
Both International Women’s Day and Egyptian Women’s Day take place in March. The latter commemorates the day in 1919 when women staged their first demonstration in the country’s history. That revolution saw women wave small flags as they called for freedom and independence, shouting slogans against the British occupation. Several of them were killed in the demonstration.
Source: The New Times
Kampala — The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has called for more media support in promoting and improving maternal health. UNFPA officials made the call during a three-day media advocacy workshop that kicked off on Thursday in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
Source:East African Business Week (Kampala)
Kampala — With Mother to Child transmission of HIV/AIDS accounting for 11% of the estimated 145,000 new infections occurring each year, Uganda's Ministry of Health is adopting a new intervention strategy.
Source: East African Business Week (Kampala)
According to the Uganda Women's Health Initiative (UWHI), 3,577 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 2,464 die from the disease every year.
Source: The New York Times
CAIRO — The sheer number of women sexually abused and gang raped in a single public square had become too big to ignore. Conservative Islamists in Egypt’s new political elite were outraged — at the women.
Source: The Guardian
A 21-year-old woman has become the latest victim of a series of deadly attacks against journalists in Somalia.
Rahma Abdulkadir, whose work focused on women's rights, was murdered on Sunday night as she was travelling to her home in the Yaaqshiid neighbourhood of the capital, Mogadishu, colleagues and friends confirmed.
Abdulkadir was shot by two men after she and a fellow journalist, Munira Ibrahim, left an internet cafe at about 9.30pm.
"Two men armed with pistols approached us and started shooting Ms Abdulkadir," Ibrahim said. "Within seconds I saw her falling on the ground with a lot of blood coming from her head. They shot her in the head three times and in the neck two times. There were no police and I had to escape from the scene.
"Ibrahim had worked with Abdulkadir at Radio Caabudwaaq in the Galgaduud region of central Somalia. The station's director, Abdukarim Bulhan, described Abdulkadir as an active young journalist who had been working with him since 2010. In January last year she moved to Mogadishu, where she was also intending to join a local university.
Bulhan said: "She was an active and young female journalist with the aspiration to be a role model. Her main focus was human rights in Somalia, particularly women's rights."
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Abdulkadir is the third journalist killed in Somalia this year.
The National Union of Somali Journalists has demanded that the work of a taskforce established by the Somali government to probe media assassinations be sped up. Last year 18 media workers were killed, mostly in targeted murders, but no arrests have been made.
Mohamed Ibrahim, secretary-general of the union, said: "We condemn this unacceptable killing. We want to call on the government to open investigations into all the journalists assassinated in Somalia."
Augustine Mahiga, the UN secretary-general's special representative for Somalia, also expressed shock. "I condemn this hideous attack in the strongest terms and send my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Rahma Abdulkadir," he said.
Source: Reuters
A veiled woman hails a cab late at night on a deserted road in Casablanca, Morocco. As the taxi takes off, the driver asks her what on earth she is doing out alone at such a late hour.
“I was working,” the woman responds as the disconcerted driver asks her whether her husband approves. “I’m divorced,” she says.
Source: Namibia Economist
The call for more female faces in the private sector's management cadre has prompted the Ohlthaver & List Group of Companies to introduce their female executives to a wider audience.
Source: The News
A skill training program sponsored by Margibi County district #3 Representative Stephen S. Kafi has benefitted 130 rural women in various disciplines. Serving as guest speaker at the graduation over the weekend, a prominent woman of Margibi County Janka Clarke urged the graduates to utilize the skills acquired to improve their individual lives.
Source: IRIN
A changing climate will inevitably have an impact on gender relations in rural communities, but not enough is being done to boost the resilience of women - already disadvantaged by traditions of inequality.
Source: France24
AFP - Protesters on Monday demanded the resignation of Tunisia's minister for women's affairs, Sihem Badi, accusing her of defending a children's nursery where a three-year-old girl was raped.
Source: Leadership (Abuja)
As the HIV/AIDS scourge continues to wreak havoc on the lives of Nigerians, those living with it have opened up on how they are holding up under the deadly infection. RUTH CHOJI spoke with some People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).
Source: The New Vision
The convergence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries presents major challenges to the world's poorest and most neglected groups of people. NCDs continue to escalate and cause hundreds of billions of dollars of loss annually,despite aggressive lifestyle campaigns.
Source: Capital FM
Microsoft Africa has teamed up with the Federation of Women Entrepreneurs Association (FWEA) and SupaMamas organization to train women in small and medium enterprises on using Microsoft tools to grow their business.
Source: Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda should be grounded in human rights, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the UN High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
IT was reported in the press at the weekend that more and more girls were dropping out of school to get married. This unfortunate scenario has also led to an increase in the number of under-age mothers, obstetric fistulas and broken marriages. Child marriages are not a new phenomenon.
Source: Marketwire
Almas Jiwani, President of UN Women National Committee Canada, is the first Canadian and first UN Women representative awarded with the prestigious International Women Development Champion Award in Paris, France Saturday evening.
Source: Egpyt Daily News
In a press conference on Sunday, the National Salvation Front (NSF) announced the establishment of a permanent committee tasked with defending women’s rights.
Source: Daily News Egypt
President Mohamed Morsi announced a new initiative on Sunday to support Egyptian women’s rights which aims to expand the role of women and resolve their most pressing challenges.