Source: Zambia Daily Mail
DAVID is sitting in the newsroom working on his story when a woman walks in with a swollen face and black eye. In a voice that could barely be heard and obviously in a lot of pain, she complains that her husband, a chief executive officer at one of the country blue-chip companies, had beaten her. David does not write the story.
Source: Daily Maverick
South Africa's oldest rape support organisation, Cape Town's Rape Crisis, has been forced to retrench all of its staff due to funding difficulties. Though it will continue running a reduced service with the aid of volunteers, its difficulties highlight a wider question about who should be footing the bill for the kinds of indispensable services offered by the likes of Rape Crisis. By REBECCA DAVIS.
Source: allAfrica
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.
UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehim today called on African First Ladies to use their positions and voices to stop early child marriage and teenage pregnancy.
There is no cure or vaccine yet, but "the end of AIDS" was the buzzword at the opening ceremony of the International AIDS Conference in Washington DC on 22 July.
President Mugabe yesterday officially launched Government's Broad Based Women's Economic Empowerment Framework which seeks to provide a guiding outline for economic empowerment.
South Africa has charted a significant decline in mother-to-child HIV transmission for the second consecutive year, with new data showing that just 2.7 percent of babies born to HIV-positive mums contracted the virus by six weeks of age, compared to 8 percent in 2008.
Source:RH Reality Check
A new report by the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, an independent body of former world leaders and top legal, human rights and HIV experts, released on the eve of the London Summit on Family Planning, has labeled the global response to the AIDS epidemic as "stifled."
It's a dream come true for African women, says Litha Musyimi-Ogana, the African Union's chief pointsperson on gender issues as she hails the election of the first female head of the AU Commission, saying more women in positions of power will spur the continent's resurgence.
Leymah Gbowee, the Liberian who mustered her desperate, angry countrywomen into a peace movement that helped bring down the violent regime of their president Charles Taylor, is steadily attracting international attention as one of Africa’s most powerful voices for profound social change.
Over the years, the ambiguous nature of the Zimbabwe prostitution law has subjected women to arbitrary arrests and detention if found walking at night in the streets of Harare. Those accused of loitering have to pay a maximum fine of 16.50 euros.
THE year 2012 has thus far proved promising for the African woman's status within public bodies following the recent election of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as African Union Commission Chair.
Globally, young women between the ages of 15 and 24 years are twice as likely as their male counterparts to contract HIV. HIV is the leading cause of death among women of reproductive age. Women and girls make up 60 percent of the people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, home to two-thirds of the world’s HIV cases.
Melinda Gates wants you to know this: if women in poor countries can get the contraceptives they want, millions of lives will be saved.
Source: IRIN
Decades of conflict and marginalization have left South Sudan the most dangerous country on earth in which to give birth.
Source: AllAfrica
A slightly higher proportion of babies was saved from HIV infection in 2011 than in the previous year, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Thursday.
Source: South African Government News Service
The group KZN Disabled Real Men has taken a stand against the scourge of domestic violence by launching an initiative known as 'Real Men Can Save Pledge'.
Source: IRIN News
"More women die in child birth, per capita, in South Sudan, than in any country in the world," says Caroline Delany, a health specialist with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in South Sudan which is funding a raft of maternal health programmes.
The world may be awash in data -- thanks to modern technology -- but still more needs to be collected to effectively meet the needs of women and promote gender equality, says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Source: The Chronicle
The Asogli Queen Mother's Association in Ho has decried violence and economic abuse of girls and women in the West African sub region. The Association has, therefore, organized a workshop in Ho, for the relevant stakeholders to deliberate on how to put an end to the abuse and violence against women and girls in the society.