Source: AfriqueJet
UNFPA chief says family planning central to African women's well-being - Ensuring availability of family planning services and their acceptability to every woman, man and to young people, would improve the health of mothers and children in Africa, besides saving health care systems unnecessary expenditure, according to Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
Source:allAfrica
President Jacob Zuma says despite South Africa being the last country to launch the Campaign for Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA), the country was set on using every opportunity to achieve the targets set out by the strategy.
Source:allAfrica
WESTERN province is to benefit from a Sh21 billion programme to reduce maternal deaths and increase antenatal care.
The programme, Saving Lives at Birth was launched in Vihiga County seeks to increase the number of poor pregnant mothers who deliver in health facilities.
The programmed is funded by the Saving Lives at Birth Consortium which comprises Grand Challenges of Canada, USAid, World Bank and the Bill & Melinda
Source: Times of Zambia
TWO men have been sentenced to 35 years imprisonment each with hard labour for taking turns in raping a 36-year-old woman within a police camp.
Kitwe High Court Judge Isaac Chali sent to jail Haggai Lupupila, 29, and Clifford Musonda, 24, for raping the woman on February 4, last year.
Lupupila admitted the charge, while Musonda denied committing the offence.
Source:allAfrica
Cairo — While Egypt's uprising may not have given rural women a louder voice in the political arena, gradual change may be occurring at the grassroots.
In the ongoing political turmoil in Egypt, the question of what change the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak will bring about and to whom is still to be resolved.
Source:allAfrica
Cairo — While Egypt's uprising may not have given rural women a louder voice in the political arena, gradual change may be occurring at the grassroots.
In the ongoing political turmoil in Egypt, the question of what change the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak will bring about and to whom is still to be resolved.
Source: Times of Zambia
GOVERNMENT has urged women to consider showcasing their artefacts and other merchandise during the August 2013 United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) general assembly in Livingstone.
Source: The Point
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.