Source: The Analyst
1998 Nobel Laureate, Madam Jody Williams has decried the alleged 'less important' attitude the Liberian government attached to women activities and problems here.
Source: Vanguard
Some health experts on Friday blamed the prevalence of breast cancer on the sedentary lifestyles of many women.
They expressed the view in separate interviews with the NAN in Lagos. They also blamed the disease on obesity, increased alcohol consumption and the growing trend for delaying motherhood.
Source: The Independent
The number of young women travelling to China is at an all time low following a move by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ask the Chinese Embassy to restrict their travel over fears of engaging in prostitution and drug abuse while there.
Source: The Star
TESO Cheaper and affordable Women Enterprise Fund loans are lying idle with few women submitting their applications to acquire them.
The funds Western region coordinator Nelson Ondiek said since the launch of the fund five years ago, only Sh3.8million had been loaned out.
With Somalia's UN-backed government consolidating its hold over the capital, Mogadishu, and other areas from al-Qaeda-linked militants, many women are returning to help rebuild the country, reports the BBC's Kate Forbes.
Source: Libya Herald
The One Voice 2013 women’s conference under the slogan ‘New Horizons’ opened yesterday at the Rixos hotel, Tripoli.
Source: Bikya.news
Egyptian police have been randomly and systematically arresting people in and around downtown Cairo’s Qasr el-Aini street, where clashes broke out Saturday only a few hundred meters from Tahrir Square. One of those arrested was Sarah Abdallah, a resident of Qasr el-Aini street who was spotted by police taking pictures from her balcony.
Source: The Informer
The Executive Directress of the United Rural and Urban Women Empowerment, Inc. (URUWOE), Mrs. Nancy F. W. Kolliemellen, is calling on the Government of Liberia to create more training programs for the women in the Country.
Source: Ghana Business News
The United Nations (UN) said the world will lose from gender discrimination but acknowledged that countries with greater equality are more competitive and grow faster.
Source: Daily Trust
At a two-day summit recently hosted by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Lagos, women leaders across Nigeria came out with a position paper on certain gender imbalances that must be addressed in the on-going constitution review exercise.
Source: NZweek
ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 27 — African countries should make more efforts to empower youth and women and give them responsibilities of driving economic growth and peace, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said here on Sunday.
Source: IPS
Few women in Kenya harbour illusions of entering politics. Blatant discrimination, threats and intimidations, an uneven playing field and a largely unsympathetic public have turned electoral politics into a veritable minefield for women hoping to secure top government posts.
Source: IPS
Journalists can play a crucial role in helping to shift traditional attitudes within societies where the cruel practice of female genital mutilation is an everyday reality.
Mae Azango, a reporter for the news site FrontPage Africa, took on this taboo subject in her home country of Liberia, where as many as two out of three girls are affected and the topic itself has been neglected by politicians at the highest level for years.
Source: CBS News
What accounts for that disparity? Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook (FB), believes women "are held back by gender stereotypes" and that "we need to have a much more open conversation."
Source: UN Women
Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women Michelle Bachelet will travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 26 to 29 January to participate, as part of the delegation of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in the 20th African Union Summit. The theme of the Summit is “Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance.”
Source: UN Women
“Our women have been beaten, raped, whipped, forced into polygamous marriages, and who knows what else. They have lost their dignity, but what is man’s dignity without that of women?” These are the words of Sophie*, a displaced woman living in Bamako, the country’s capital, but originally from Timbuktu in the north of Mali.
Managing Director, Bank of Industry (BOI), Ms Evelyn Oputu, has described women empowerment as vital to economic development, stressing that women should not be shackled because handicapping women was to handicap oneself.
Source: This Day Live
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the Global Association of Female Attorneys (GAFA) have commended the Nigerian Army for responding quickly to requests to investigate allegations of abductions and rape by soldiers attached to the Guards Brigade, Abuja.
The women of Lassin Village in Noni Sub-division are bracing up to build a befitting hall in their traditional ruler's "Fon's" Palace.
Probably no job is harder than a counsellor's, especially when it comes to disclosing a client's HIV status. On the other hand, no amount of counselling can be enough to prepare someone for sad news. But 30-year-old Josephine Nakato defied the odds.