During the uprising that toppled Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak women stood shoulder to shoulder with men in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, pressing the revolution’s demands for freedom, justice and dignity. But those who hoped the revolution would make them equal partners in Egypt’s future claim they may be worse off now than under Mubarak’s authoritarian rule.
The international financial crash of the late 2000s created more than a global economic recession: it accentuated popular doubts about the paradigms on which our economies are built and prompted a closer look at two crucial drivers of economic growth: women and entrepreneurship.
Unknown gunmen have tried to kill a Congolese doctor widely praised for his work helping rape victims, he has told the BBC.
Source: BooksLive
In the growing dusk of an evening in February 1990, Nelson Mandela walked out on the balcony of Cape Town City Hall. Fumbling with the microphone and reading glasses borrowed from his wife, he spoke, exhaustedly but powerfully, to the 50 000 or so people who had filled the Grand Parade below him.
Source: Daily Maverick
The doors in the old Women's Gaol in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, are still heavy in olive green. A sign points to the solitary confinement cells. The floors in the foyer where events are now held are concrete and pillars circle the room where prisoners must have been shifted from one cell to the next. It's the perfect balance of state grandeur and oppression. The gaol now serves as a monument to our brutal history and a society imprisoned by state violence, past and present.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
The Deputy Minister for Constitutional and Legal Affairs, Ms Angela Kairuki, launched the Gender Equality and Women Empowerment programme (GEWE II).
Source: The Star
The National Cohesion and Integration Commission has warned over increasing cases of hate speech targeted at women aspirants ahead of the general election.
Source: ANGOP
The percentage of positive tests in pregnant women countrywide fell from 9.8 in 2007 to 4.8 per cent in 2011, due to the effort made by the Angolan government, through the Ministry of Health, in the fighting against pandemic disease.
Source: Tunis Afrique Press as found at AllAfrica.com
Works of an international conference on women's participation in public and political life and decision making started, on Monday in Tunis, on the theme "no democracy without women".
Source: Aswat Masriya
A number of non-governmental organizations asked on Monday for a decent representation of women in parliament and other elected bodies.
Source: The Star
Two street boys believed to have raped a woman who died hours later at a Nairobi hospital were yesterday lynched by Limuru residents.
Source: All Africa
Makurdi — Benue State First Lady Mrs. Dooshima Yemisi Suswam met with journalists in the state recently. She spoke on the participation of women in politics, state of the girl child education, marriage ties between persons of different cultural backgrounds among others, in an interview during the parley.
Source: Institute of Development Studies
Armed conflicts result in tremendous changes to the lives and livelihoods of women: women take up new jobs, join armies, act as peacemakers and provide essential support to their families and communities. However, post-conflict policy processes tend to limit the capacity of women to participate fully and take advantage of new opportunities after the end of the war.
The United Nations High Level Taskforce on women, girls, gender equality and HIV for Eastern and Southern Africa has called for accelerated effort in protecting the rights and wellbeing of young girls.
The United Nations Security Council will hold an Open Debate to mark the 12th anniversary of the UN Security Council resolution 1325, with a focus on “the Role of Women’s Civil Society Organizations in Contributing to the Prevention and Resolution of Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding.”
Source: AllAfrica
History was made in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital about a fortnight ago when the management of the University of Ilorin included Mrs. Medinat Folorunso Salman in the list of the institution's newly appointed professors.
FORMER Prime Minister Edward Lowassa at one time told a public rally at a village in Mwanza Region, that the Fourth Phase Government under President Jakaya Kikwete had three priorities.
Other models and designers from across the continent dash from one end of the tent to the other - there seems to be an unofficial competition to see who can make the most noise.
A new report points to the extensive violence experienced by girls attending school in Zambia. But victims rarely speak up about the abuse, and a lack of clear policies fuel the cycle of violence.
Opening Remarks by Lakshmi Puri, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women at Panel Discussion on Preventing and Ending Violence against Women with Disabilities. New York, 23 October 2012.