Speaking for the first time since her election to the chair of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma told a gathering of the ANC Women's League that she would not be a lackey of South Africa's own interests in her new position.
Nine women in the northern Côte d’Ivoire town of Katiola have been convicted for carrying out female genital mutilation – the first time that a 1998 law banning FGM has been applied.
The Government of Liberia (GOL) through the Ministry of Gender and Development has donated US$50,000 to several women organizations here to fight crime.
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The Namibian High Court has ruled that the human rights of three HIV-positive women were violated when they were coerced into being sterilized while they gave birth, but the judge dismissed claims that the sterilization amounted to discrimination based on their HIV status.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
SOME activists in the country have accused the Constitutional Review Commission, saying they schedule their meetings to collect views without taking into consideration interests of women.
Source: ANGOP
The minister of Family and Women Promotion, Genoveva Lino, Tuesday in Yeosu, South Korea, highlighted the contribution of the African women, particularly Angolans, to the fight against discrimination of females in the continent.
Source: Religious Dispatches
When I started seminary in the late 1980s, liberation theology still was influential. Liberationists' arguments, often based in Christian scripture and theology, so compelled theological discourses that class time in most US seminaries, divinity schools, and schools of theology engaged them, even if only to challenge their validity.
Source: Angola Press
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The Government of Liberia (GOL) through the Ministry of Gender and Development has donated US$50,000 to several women organizations here to fight crime.
Source: African Brains
Wife of the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Mrs. Kadre Desire Ouedraogo, has called for synergy, complementarity, strong partnership and collaboration between the African First Ladies Peace Mission and the Commission for the promotion of continental peace and development.
Source: GhanaWeb
Ms. Dorothy Onny, Director of the Gender Unit of the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs, has announced that Government has developed a National Action Plan to implement the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.
Ms Dorothy Onny, Director of the Gender Unit of the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs, has announced that the Government of Ghana has developed a National Action Plan to implement the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.
That a war crimes court should focus on the victims of war crimes sounds like a simple concept.
Source: TheTownTalk.com
AIDS specialists heard fresh appeals Wednesday to expand assistance for women far beyond a global focus on pregnancy.
Source: RH Reality Check
Imagine a life where you live on less than two dollars a day. You have been saving for months to afford a trip to the health clinic. With your payment in hand, you walk three hours to get to the nearest clinic, carrying your young children with you. When you finally arrive, you want to be able to receive information and testing for HIV and also pick up contraception to prevent pregnancy, but you’re told that the clinic does not provide both services. You can get tested for HIV, but you’ll have to walk an additional 20 miles to a separate clinic to obtain contraceptives. Unable to cover the distance, you are forced to return home without the contraception that you want and need.
Source: Boston.com
A legal aid group says a court in Namibia has ruled that the government there sterilized three women infected with HIV without getting proper consent.
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.
The number of female elected parliamentarians in Senegal’s National Assembly has almost doubled thanks to the impact of new parity laws on the July elections..
Source: Nigeria First
ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 7TH SUMMIT OF THE AFRICAN FIRST LADIES PEACE MISSION (AFLPM), ABUJA, JULY 26, 2012
South Africa’s Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities Lulu Xingwana will officially launch the country’s Women’s Month on Wednesday, a statement from her ministry said on Monday.