Source: Congress of South African Trade Unions (Johannesburg)
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) in KwaZulu-Natal is enraged by the latest outbreak of rape accidents being committed against young girls and the elderly. The most horrifying and gruesome is an incident that involves a 17-year old girl that was gang-raped and mutilated in Western Cape.

Source: South African Government (Pretoria)
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The Gauteng Department of Health is calling on pregnant mothers and their partners to make use of clinics to learn more about pregnancy and prevention of sexually transmitted illnesses.

Source: ABC
Washington's envoy on human rights cautioned Tuesday against the failure of Egypt's government to identify the perpetrators behind a growing number of gruesome attacks against female protesters,

Source: IRIN
JOHANNESBURG, 12 February 2013 (IRIN) - Girl child soldiers are often thought of only as “sex slaves”, a term that glosses over the complex roles many play within armed groups and in some national armies. This thinking contributes to their subsequent invisibility in the demobilization processes - in fact, girls are frequently the most challenging child soldiers to rehabilitate. 

Source: Ahram
"The revolution is not 18 days, nor a year, or two. The revolution is permanent. The fact that we, women, have not reached our aspirations does not mean we should lose hope,” women's rights activist Mariam Kirollos told Ahram Online. Kirollos said that she is proud of Egyptian women who have been active during the Egyptian revolution either on the front lines,

Source: Africa Renewal
In recent years, the shrill cries of a newborn baby have been bringing more shouts of joy than of anguish in maternity wards across Africa. That is because maternal deaths are decreasing on the continent, says Gifty Addico, a South Africa-based adviser for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).

Source: Heath-e
HIV-positive women are living longer, but are now dying of cervical cancer. In Zimbabwe, cervical cancer is now the most common cancer among women, particularly those living with HIV. Activists are urging the government to step up efforts to prevent deaths related to the disease, accusing it of paying lip service to the problem.

Source: The New Vision
Fifty six percent of the pregnancies in Uganda are unintended, leading to high levels of unplanned births, unsafe abortion and maternal injury and death, a new study has revealed.

Source: Libya Herald

The first ever International Women in Libya (IWIL) meeting, held yesterday at the Corinthia Hotel, attracted fifty women from 17 countries.

Source: AlArabiya
In light of the vast political and social changes shredding through Egypt’s social fabric more attention has been shed on sexual harassment on the streets of Cairo. It is not uncommon for women to report verbal or physical abuse in broad daylight. However, after the Egyptian revolution this aspect has become even more apparent and several NGO’s have reported on the severity of this phenomenon. 

Source: New Vision
Anatoria Baregyena, 54, lost her husband when their children were still young. Although she never went to school, she had always nursed a desire to give her children the best education, but she could not afford school fees.

Source: Daily Trust
As part of the ITU's Girls in ICT project and Tech Needs Girls campaign, Women in Technology in Nigeria (WITIN) has introduced Technovation Challenge to Nigeria tagged 'the Mobile App Challenge' for secondary school girls between the ages of 13 and18.

Source: Sudan Tribune
When Sudanese President Omar Bashir and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir signed a series of agreements on September 27 in Addis Ababa, they signaled their governments' commitment to peace and cooperation between their two countries. However, since that time, implementation of these agreements sadly has been lacking.

Source: AlertNet
When armed Islamist fighters arrived in the northeastern Malian village of Haribomo near Timbuktu, one of the first things they did was sip sweet tea with the local imam. They then told him how they expected the village women to behave.

Source: OHCHR
Statement on activities undertaken between the 53rd and 54th sessions of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

Source: Vanguard
At a time that South Africa and indeed the whole continent are engulfed in football, Rape cases are threatening to overtake and score more headlines than football itself.

Source: Vanguard
It was an avoidable death. 32-year-old pregnant woman and mother of two, Mrs Elo Onome did not live to tell her story. 'When on Sunday, November 25, 2012, she was rushed to the Central Hospital, Ughelli, Delta State from another government hospital in Otu-Jeremi following complications in her pregnancy, she thought she would live. But there was no consultant on duty at the Central Hospital to handle her case consequent upon which she was referred to a private clinic, also at Ughelli.

Source: DailyBeast
The brutal rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl has shaken the country’s consciousness—and inspired South Africans to share their own stories of sexual violence.

Source: Al-Shorfa

Human rights activists and civil society organisations continue to seek stronger political representation for Egyptian women in parliament, ahead of elections for the lower house of the legislative authority this year.The Shura Council, which holds full legislative powers until those elections are held, approved the elections law and another law that regulates political rights on January 19th.

Source: AllAfrica

World Vision is extremely concerned about the plight of girls and young women in Northern Mali, amid growing reports of young women being beaten, sexually assaulted and forced to become 'brides' for armed opposition groups.

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