Source: BBC
Internally displaced people in Somalia are suffering sexual violence and other forms of abuse, reports the Human Rights Watch (HRW) campaign group.
Source: BBC
Two years after the long-time government was ousted in Tunisia, some women are enjoying their freedom to wear Islamic clothes such as the niqab, while others are afraid of losing their rights, reports Caroline Anning.
Two years after the long-time government was ousted in Tunisia, some women are enjoying their freedom to wear Islamic clothes such as the niqab, while others are afraid of losing their rights, reports Caroline Anning.
Source: The Telegraph
William Hague, the foreign secretary, has announced Britain will spend £180m on a five-year healthcare programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
During a visit to the country with Angelina Jolie to highlight the issue of rape as a "weapon of war", Mr Hague said the fund would fund will provide essential healthcare in an effort to bring peace.
Source: Al Arabiya
“Down with dictatorship, down with capital!” and “Solidarity with women around the world!” rang the chants of thousands marking the opening in Tunis Tuesday of the World Social Forum, an alternative to the elite annual event in Davos.
Source: Daily News Egypt
Women’s rights group Fouada Watch criticised President Mohamed Morsi’s initiative regarding women, rejecting its contents completely.
Morsi announced a new initiative on Sunday to support Egyptian women’s rights, expand their role in Egyptian society and resolve their most pressing challenges.
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: 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.
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.