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.
Source: This Day Live
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.
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.
Source:allAfrica
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.
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.
Source: allAfrica
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.
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.
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.
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: allAfrica
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.
Source: LA Times
The jihadists stoning women to death in Mali and taking hostages in Algeria are harbingers of much worse to come. Osama bin Laden may be dead, but Al Qaeda in Africa now threatens an area twice the size of Germany.
Source: Bikya.news
In the two years since Egyptians first took to the streets of Tahrir Square demanding the end to the oppressive regime of Hosni Mubarak, women have had much optimism over their status in the country, political and socially. Now, as the country celebrates the two-year anniversary of the uprising’s beginning,
In the two years since Egyptians first took to the streets of Tahrir Square demanding the end to the oppressive regime of Hosni Mubarak, women have had much optimism over their status in the country, political and socially. Now, as the country celebrates the two-year anniversary of the uprising’s beginning,
Source: UN dispatch
You may have missed it, but 2012 was a very a big year for African women.
You may have missed it, but 2012 was a very a big year for African women.
Source: Aljazeera
The Moroccan government has said it plans to change a law that allows rapists to avoid charges if they marry their victims.
The Moroccan government has said it plans to change a law that allows rapists to avoid charges if they marry their victims.
Source: Leadership
Recently, the wife of the Adamawa State Governor, Dr Zainab Nyako stoked passion when her pet project, Women Education and Empowerment Initiative (WEEIN) organised a two-day capacity building workshop in Yola for women. MOHAMMED ISMAIL writes that the occasion as instructive as it were,
Recently, the wife of the Adamawa State Governor, Dr Zainab Nyako stoked passion when her pet project, Women Education and Empowerment Initiative (WEEIN) organised a two-day capacity building workshop in Yola for women. MOHAMMED ISMAIL writes that the occasion as instructive as it were,
Source: New Vision
Many men often say that women are bad drivers. Apart from the cultural, sociological and psychological implications, the gender-driving disparity needs to be checked.
Many men often say that women are bad drivers. Apart from the cultural, sociological and psychological implications, the gender-driving disparity needs to be checked.
Source: IRIN
The recent execution in Somalia of a soldier convicted of rape and the detention of a journalist investigating sexual assault have given the traditionally taboo issue of gender-based violence an usual degree of prominence.
Even the president has weighed in. Speaking from Washington, DC, where he met with US President Barack Obama on 17 January, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said that his government would not intervene in the case of the journalist, despite pressure from numerous organizations, including Human Rights Watch, and senior UN officials.
Source: United States Embassy Pretoria
In a response to the high rate of AIDS deaths and pediatric HIV in Southern and Eastern Africa, the United States Government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and mothers2mothers (m2m) launched a five-year regional partnership today at an event in Manzini, Swaziland.
Source: Council on Foreign Relations
Tomorrow is the second anniversary of Egypt’s revolution, an occasion likely to attract widespread reflection, and no doubt
some protests. In the wake of the controversial constitution, many Egyptians—particularly women—are worried about whether the government will protect their rights and interests.
Tomorrow is the second anniversary of Egypt’s revolution, an occasion likely to attract widespread reflection, and no doubt
some protests. In the wake of the controversial constitution, many Egyptians—particularly women—are worried about whether the government will protect their rights and interests.
Source: allAfrica
A three-day symposium on gender issues that impact the 1986 constitutional reviewing process got underway in Monrovia yesterday with women groups calling for the preservation of certain basic rights in the Constitution seeking equal participation in political governance.