Source: World Bank
Every day, 800 women die from pregnancy-related causes during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. Over 99% of these 287,000 annual deaths occur in developing countries, and most are avoidable, as the health-care solutions to prevent or manage complications are well known. About 56% of the deaths occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa with another 29% in South Asia – these two regions together account for 85% of maternal mortality in the world.
Source: New Era
Despite the progress made, Namibian women are still confronting an increased prevalence of HIV/AIDS, high rates of gender based-violence, baby dumping and teen pregnancies.
Source: Daily Maverick
Like brawling over it, talking about violence against women isn't enough to stop the tidal wave of gender abuse sweeping South Africa.
Source: Operation 1325
In 2008, the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) adopted a Gender and Development protocol, where detailed goals and indicators concerning women's increased participation and leadership in developmental processes are present. The last article in the document, number 28, deals with women, peace and security as well as women's leadership in democratic process; everything according to the standards of resolution 1325. An evaluation of this document's impact was recently conducted, revealing an interesting picture of the status of women's power in peace and security processes in Southern Africa.
Source: Gender Links
South Africans will celebrate National Women's Day on 9 August. As the country prepares for this historic celebration, United States (US) Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton arrived in South Africa on 6 August. It's a fitting metaphor that Clinton, who's arguably the world's most politically powerful woman, is visiting South Africa at this time and it provides the space to talk about political power and women's role in it.
Source: South Africa.info
Chairperson of the African Union Commission and Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has challenged South African women to focus on removing the barriers to their economic emancipation.
Source: Economic Community of West African States
ECOWAS Commission and the Africa Unite Campaign are rallying ECOWAS Member States to help end violence against women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa. To this end, the 5th Regional Committee Meeting of Africa Unite held at the ECOWAS Commission's Abuja headquarters on 2nd and 3rd August 2012 agreed on the joint implementation of Africa Unite's communication strategy by the two organizations.
Source: Afriquejet
Protocol on rights of Women - The Working Group on Gender Justice in Africa Tuesday called on the African Union (AU) to encourage member states that are yet to ratify the protocol on the rights of women in Africa to do so.
Source: SAPA
Police should have no more excuses for their disregard of the Domestic Violence Act (DVA), National Assembly police committee acting chairwoman Annelize van Wyk said on Tuesday.
Source: Leadership
Chairperson of the African Union Commission and Home Affairs Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has challenged women to this month concentrate their activities on making sure that they remove barriers to their economic emancipation.
Source: LA Times
CAIRO — When Islamist President Mohamed Morsi was elected in late June, he promised to represent all Egyptians by forming a government inclusive of women, Christians, youth and even artists and intellectuals.
Source: Alert Net
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AlertNet) – In 2006, when the Asian Development Bank (ADB) decided to launch a multi-million dollar rural water project in eastern and north central regions of Sri Lanka, there was one overriding requirement – women would be placed in key positions.
The Mid-Term Fiscal Policy Review Statement presented by Finance Minister Tendai Biti was a far cry from women's expectations of economic empowerment because it failed to address pertinent issues that continue to hamper their advancement.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid a lightning visit to Malawi on Sunday to congratulate its new president, one of only two female heads of state in Africa, for pulling her impoverished country back from the economic brink after a political crisis.
LATTER day court-jesters have dubbed her the minister of everything but men, but Lulama Xingwana has a serious dream that all South Africans ought to share.
Source: Global Post
South Sudan is one of the world's toughest places to live, as anyone who visits the country will notice immediately. Grinding poverty is everywhere, and people struggle to survive without roads, water, electricity, and basic services. Some of the cruelest realities of life there, however, are less visible to the foreign observer – and as such are rarely mentioned on the international scene. One of those is violence against women.
Source: Al Jazeera
This article isn't about elections. In fact, passing a pleasant but rather uneventful summer on holiday in Libya, I felt no compulsion or desire to say anything about the country's recent elections, which went better than anyone had anticipated, barring a handful of incidents that were quickly contained.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met schoolgirls and Africa's second woman president during an unprecedented visit to Malawi Sunday before jetting to South Africa to visit Nelson Mandela.
Soon after Nellipe Mtete's husband died in Rumphi over 70km from Mzuzu city in northern Malawi her in-laws agreed to snatch away the 36 acres of land she had for many years with her late spouse produced crops for food and sale from. Mtete however, still possesses the land where she grows maize, potatoes, soya beans, tobacco with her children.
Source: News 24
Government must now declare a National State of Emergency on rape.