Source: All Africa
President Goodluck Jonathan has challenged African First Ladies to summon courage to speak out against abuses in the continent to promote peace and stability.
President Jonathan, who declared open the African First Ladies Peace Mission, AFLPM, in Abuja, Thursday, expressed optimism that soon, Nigeria will produce its first set of female service chiefs.
More than 30 girls from Nimba and Lofa counties have been empowered by the Women Peace and Security Network- Africa (WIPSEN-Africa), through its Young Girls Transformative Project.
Female miners have appealed to President Robert Mugabe to stop male politicians from abusing their power by grabbing mining claims from them.
Since 2006, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has published an annual report on gender inequality around the world. The Global Gender Gap Report (GGGR) ranks countries according to their scores in four categories: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment.
Source: AllGhana News
Teach a woman how to fish and she would provide fish forever. Wedaga, Sonoo and Unity women's groups in the Kassena-Nankana District of the Upper East Region have every cause to be happy in their new enterprise of processing and production of “Potaghurt”, a refreshing drink made from sweet potato turned into yoghurt, one of the initiatives of the Root and Tuber Improvement Programme (RTIMP) of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA).
Source: Huffington Post
Tackling the female side of the AIDS epidemic means going far beyond today's global focus on pregnant women, specialists told the world's largest AIDS meeting Wednesday.
Source: The Zimbabwean
"We take pride in being one of the first few voices for women and we can safely say the latest development where women are slowly being recognised and elevated to higher posts in media houses gives us hope that the newsroom is being responsive to female journalists."
Source: Scoop
Sixty women's delegates from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia rallied in London today to demand: "London 2012: Justice for Women – an end to gender discrimination at the Olympics."
Last week’s visit by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia brought both inspiration for Tanzanian women and for African development.
Each year, 16 million girls aged 15-19 give birth. 50,000 of them die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. And 95 percent of those births occur in developing countries.
World Pulse delivered the voices of grassroots women leaders to the UN’s 2nd Landmark Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Source: Sierra Express Media
Famous actresses like Angelina Jolie have become the butt of many jokes because of their humanitarian or "good works" in Africa and other parts of the developing world. In Sierra Leone alone, a few of the Hollywood A-listers have taken up some sort of cause or another, highlighting the plight of war affected children, of maternal and infant mortality, malnutrition and other social challenges.
Source: The Daily Observer
The Network on Gender Based Violence (NGBV), in collaboration with Action Aid The Gambia (AAITG), on Thursday held a day's sensitisation on gender-based violence for local government authorities from Kanifing Municipal Council, Brikama Area Council and Banjul City Council, at the National Nutrition Agency.
Source: Bikya Masr
The United Nations is giving local stakeholders from around the world a chance to speak up in an online conversation about gender-based violence. "With our combined efforts we can achieve great things," said UN Women chief, Michelle Bachelet.
Source: United States Department of Sate
President Obama signed an executive order July 20 that gives the U.S. Treasury Department expanded authority to sanction individuals and entities that contribute to the persistence of violence in Somalia.
Source: Daily Maverick
A new multi-faith initiative, Ubuntu in the Home, aims to harness the power and influence of South African religious leaders to tackle the problem of gender-based violence in the country. At the programme's launch on Tuesday, members of different faith communities lamented the silence that has previously prevailed among them on this topic. By REBECCA DAVIS.
Source: Huffington Post
How good laws help, and bad laws hamper, the global response to HIV.
Source: Daily Camera
Conservative U.S. Christian groups are setting up fronts in Africa to fight for anti-gay and anti-abortion legislation to promote their convictions, a report by a Boston-based think tank said Tuesday.
Source: The Star
OUR society is experiencing a metamorphosis. Kenyans are saying good riddance to oppressive cultures of wife battering and violence, which were traditionally fashionable, and unfortunately defined us. The barbaric act was, in some traditional setups, highly regarded as an undertaking that symbolised love from husbands, even when the actions resulted in serious bodily harms.
Source: IPP Media
This week GERALD KITABU, now in Washington for the 2012 International AIDS Conference, interviewed a South African Florence Ngobeni-Allen, an advocate and ambassador for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) on how, as a mother, she managed to survive HIV/Aids. Excerpts: