Two top Muslim Brotherhood officials are being investigated by Egypt’s Attorney General Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud over their role in allegedly inciting President Mohamed Morsi supporters to attack female protesters around Tahrir Square last Friday.
Source: TrustLaw
African member states of the United Nations have submitted a draft resolution on ending female genital mutilation (FGM) to the U.N. General Assembly, in what campaigners have hailed as a landmark step to end a practice that has been inflicted on up to 140 million women and girls.
Clarisse Kimbi barely ekes out a living from a tiny parcel of land in Kom village in the North West Region of Cameroon. Today, the mother of six finds it hard to put food on the table for herself and her children. But five years ago she, her husband and children were considered well-off.
Wearing her finest bead jewellery in her ears, on her arms and about her neck, Raheli Philipo Kilaye is excited to share what she has learned at adult school. With a big smile, she puts her right index finger to her thumb and begins to count in English: “One, two, three.” She continues by unfolding her fingers: “Four, five, six, seven …” until she reaches 20.
Mahasin Ali and her sister run an outdoor cafe in the Sudanese city of Omdurman in Khartoum state. It is a makeshift affair, a few plastic chairs circling Ali who sits on a low stool, preparing tea, coffee and pastries for her customers.
Gender protocols signed by African countries are said to be hardly ever implemented. Botswana is one of the countries that lag behind in respect of gender equality and in signing and implementing gender protocols.
A clause in Tunisia's draft constitution has sparked uproar and concerns that women's rights are under threat. Some Tunisian women are fighting back.
Two South African women may have helped unlock the key to a vaccine to rid the world of one its deadliest epidemics, according to new research released by South African HIV experts.
Source: South African Government News Agency
Kenya's Minister of Gender, Children and Social Development Naomi Shaban has praised South Africa's success in tackling HIV and bringing down its mother-to-child infection rate.
In a major endorsement for investment in women – the bulk of food growers in the developing world – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said food security could not be achieved without women, and that the world’s hungry also needed leaders to prioritise actions.
“Is it true that the bravery of Asante is no more? I cannot believe it. It cannot be! I must say this: if you, the men of Asante, will not go forward, then we will.
Source: The Daily Observer
The executive director of Action Aid International The Gambia (AAITG), has emphasised that early and forced marriage limits a girl's opportunity to go to school or benefit from alternatives or vocational education.
Source: Analyst Liberia via AllAfrica
It has been some time since elaborate welcome ceremonies were organized in honor of President Sirleaf from a foreign visit. Liberian presidents, including the incumbent, have a tradition of arriving from abroad to lavish welcome back home programs organized by partisans, supporters and even the Government as a show of support or victory over domestic detractors.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
THE government is committed to removing barriers to trade and intends to support women initiatives in the establishment, formalization and growth of their business.
ONE of the many misconceptions that non-Muslims have acquired about Islam is the claim of discrimination against women. This opinion much of the world has formed about Islam’s stand on woman is not actually driven by specific Qur’anic verses or the hadith (sayings) of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH). Instead, it is the actual practices of some extremist parties on women’s rights that has made many in the world adopt this wrong perception about Islam pertaining to prejudice against women.
Egyptian lawmakers have released a partial draft of Egypt’s highly anticipated constitution, a document meant to embody the spirit of the Tahrir Square revolution.
At the ministerial meeting of the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children, health ministers from seven African countries committed to speed-up access to and use of 13 life-saving commodities to all women and children in their countries by 2015.
Source: This Day
Systemic barriers, such as overarching health system, financial impediments, and severely under-resourced regulatory agencies in low-income countries, market failures, have been identified as the bane of women and children suffering and dying in many countries.
Source:Gender Links
Following a new gender-quota law for local elections that came into effect January 2012, gender activists believe that this may open the door for the country to reconsider its position with regards to signing the 2008 SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.
Source: The Independent
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