Source: Health-e (Cape Town)
"Shame about her cancer stopped my sister from asking for help sooner," a Khayalitsha woman, Monica, told the audience at a talk at the 17th Reach to Recovery International Breast Cancer Support Conference currently underway in Cape Town.
Source: Health-e (Cape Town)
Recent news reports across the world included the incredible information that a baby had been cured of HIV. Is this really true?
This news was presented at an HIV medical conference (Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections) in Atlanta on March 4th.
On March 20, 2013, the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, in partnership with the UNISA Women's Forum, hosted an event/discussion, dubbed "Beyond All Barriers: Empowering Women Leaders", a women's economic empowerment outreach event, at the Miriam Makeba Auditorium on the UNISA campus in Pretoria.
Violence against women -- both domestic and sexual, and discrimination at work places, multiple responsibilities and poverty among the vast majority, just to mention a few -- continue to haunt women in the country despite ratification of various Human Rights Charters.
Source: This Day
Bridging the gap in access to basic Information and Communication Technology (ICT) between men and women has been identified as critical to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG), one that would assist Nigeria realise its dream of becoming a major economic power.
Source: Government of South Sudan
The Presidential Advisor on Gender and Human Rights Madam Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior has challenged South Sudanese women to prioritise agriculture for commercial and subsistence purposes.
Source: The Point
Concept Unit Foundation (CUF) on Monday 18th 2013 received materials support from the Canadian Embassy in Dakar, meant to provide life skill training for women and girls of Kotu Quarry in the Kanifing Municipality.
In her opening speech for the world’s largest conference on ending violence against women and girls, Michelle Bachelet summoned the spirit of 15-year old Malala Yousafzai, who’s skull was shattered on Oct. 9, 2012 by a Taliban bullet.
The world’s food security remains “vulnerable”, new data suggests, with some 870 million people experiencing sustained hunger and two billion suffering from micronutrient deficiencies.
Nations 'End Violence Against Women' document because it contains articles "violating Islamic Sharia and general morality."
Source: Magharebia
Scores of Libyan women from human rights organisations staged a last protest Thursday (March 14th) opposite the cabinet headquarters to demand an end to violence.
Can women entrepreneurs in the Arab world really have it all? This was the question we asked some of Egypt’s most outspoken female founders at our very first Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs (W4WE) roundtable this past Saturday in Cairo.
President Jakaya Kikwete has instructed Dar es Salaam regional authorities to build a modern hospital that would exclusively offer maternal and child health services.
Source: South African Government (Pretoria)
The Gauteng Department of Education has noted some incorrect media reports regarding the Colloquium on Teenage Pregnancy that took place on Tuesday. The researchers indicated that on average 45 000 girl learners fall pregnant a year. In Gauteng in 2008, we had 4874 pregnant girl learners compared with 4217 in 2011.
Religious and liberal nations agree, after two-week debate, on document urging end to violence against women and girls. A United Nations policy-making body has agreed upon a declaration urging an end to violence against women and girls despite concerns from conservative Muslim countries and the Vatican about references to women's sexual and reproductive rights.
Brigadier General B.F. Kusi, Deputy Commandant at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPC), says adoption of the United Nation Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 has been one of the greatest achievements for the promotion of women, peace and security agenda.
- As countries in the Middle East and North Africa adjust to profound political changes and economic difficulties, development experts on the region have increasingly turned their attention to the social and economic potential of incorporating more female workers into the labour market.
Source: The Guardian
It may not sound like much, but the attempted insertion of the word "recalls" in place of "reaffirms" about previous women's rights agreements by the Holy See in the first line of the proposed draft document set the tone for much of the negotiations at this year's UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
Source: Bloomberg
A new Facebook page has been created to expose sexual harassers in Egypt by calling on women to post photos of men caught in the act. Its the latest effort by campaigners to end gender-based violence and intimidation.
Source: Heritage
The Carter Center, in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International Rescue and Exchange Board (IREX) has concluded a three-conflict resolution training for several women leaders in Lofa County.