Source: dailymaverick
For the optimistic, there are signs that South Africa may be at a watershed moment when it comes to responses against violence against women.
Source: Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation (Washington, DC)
Foundation President and CEO Chip Lyons wrote about the ongoing battle against HIV/AIDS and how close we are to achieving the end of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and the creation of an AIDS-free generation.
Source: UN News Centre
After a period of brutal violence and economic collapse in Mali, access was now stable enough so that aid, if adequately funded, could help hundreds of thousands rebuild their lives, a top United Nations humanitarian official said today after a visit to the West African country.
Source: ASWAT MASRIYA
This is written with love, respect and in solidarity. I present in this article a brief critique of the contemporary Egyptian feminist movement. I hope that this would be considered constructive criticism and channeled in a way that would strengthen the movement.
Source: Open Society Initiative for South Africa
In a remarkable turn-around, South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the South African Police Service (SAPS) have formally agreed to open an investigation into widespread rape perpetrated in the lead-up to Zimbabwe's 2008 presidential elections - a landmark decision that was made in response to a legal submission filed by AIDS-Free World, requesting that South African authorities investigate and prosecute the crimes.
Source: ASWAT MASRIYA
Political activists launched on Saturday an initiative called E'rafni (Know Me) to support women candidates in the upcoming parliamentary elections, to help convey their voices to everyone in Egypt.
Source: Capital FM
The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has expressed concern over harassment and intimidation of women candidates, as the anticipated March 4 election draws near.
Source: UN News
With the support of the United Nations and partners, an all-female team will climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to highlight the importance of women's rights and in particular, education for girls.
Source: The Namibian
A total of 14 girls aged between 14 and 18 years fell pregnant at Bethanie village in the South between January 2012 and January 2013.
Source: Heritage (Monrovia)
A United Kingdom (UK) based Registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, working with the Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Dr. Matt Prior, has asserted that pregnant women in Liberia have a 25% chance of dying at child birth. Dr Prior, while recently visiting Liberia averred that pregnant women in the country had a 25 per cent chance of dying in childbirth,
Source: The New Dawn (Monrovia)
Emergency-care training for Liberian midwives and nurses has ended at the headquarters of the Bong County Health Team in Suakoko, Bong County. The training was organized by the Maternal and Child-health Advocacy International, a medical organization based in Scotland.
Source: IRIN
Boosting women's access to reproductive healthcare could significantly reduce both the number of unsafe abortions and the high cost of post-abortion medical care in Uganda, experts say.
Source: Kuwait News Agency
Algerian Minister of National Solidarity and Family Affairs Souad Bent Jaballah on Monday called for putting in play woman role in Arab economic development and facing up to accelerated changes in the region.
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) says it has embarked on massive mobilisation of women ahead of the 2015 general elections.
Source: SACSIS
Women's bodies have been the locale of war since the inception of patriarchy - a misogynistic trend that saw the female body become the site of restraint, control and oppression. Thus the female body has largely become a meme of violence, suffering and exploitation rather than joy, pleasure and autonomy.
Source: Pambazuka
South African women are regularly confronted with systemic sexual harassment, violence, and murder as the recent cases of Shrien Dewani, Anene Booysen and Reeva Steenkamp illustrate. Sustainable development will be unobtainable when women and children are brutalized by violence and any other form of gender based discrimination of which the state has a duty to prevent.
Source: Guardian
Poor quality and underfunded public services are exacerbating the "constant" violence, harassment and intimidation that millions of women face in cities and urban centres across the world, according to a report.
Source: Liberia Government
When word reached President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia that the women of the African Development Bank were requesting to meet with her, the President agreed instantly to this unscheduled addition to her already tight itinerary in Tunis, the Bank’s temporary headquarters.
Source: The Star
Maternal Health Care Royal Gardens Hospital has partnered with religious leaders to enhance safe motherhood and reach vulnerable mothers across all economic divides. The hospital hopes to raise cash from donors to subsidize maternity charges to increase hospital deliveries.
Source: Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)
Morogoro — PREGNANT women have been urged to eat healthy food to protect their unborn babies from disabilities.
The call was made over the weekend by American doctors, who are providing free medical services to people with disabilities in Morogoro Region, and said other disabilities are caused by lack of nutrients during pregnancy.