Source: The Guardian
Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast need funding to address the humanitarian crisis of violence against women, report claims
Source: The Guardian
Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast need funding to address the humanitarian crisis of violence against women, report claims
Source: IPS
BULAWAYO , May 22, 2012 (IPS) - Gertrude Mkoloi earns a living harvesting maize on a small piece of land in rural Zimbabwe. Or at least she used to.
Source: BBC
President Joyce Banda has said she wants Malawi to overturn its ban on homosexual acts - the first African country to do so since 1994.
Source: AllAfrica
The visiting fifteen members of the United Nations Security Council delegation, co-led by Ambassador Susan Rice of the United States of America and Ambassador Mohammed Loulichki of Morocco, started their day just outside Monrovia, at a United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) sponsored "Alternative Livelihood Project for Traditional Women". The project hosts three-month vocational training courses which are managed by a Liberian non-governmental organization.
Source: Times Live
A report launched by a national women's campaign in Braamfontein shows some of the basic human rights enshrined in South Africa's constitution are still contested in communities across the country.
Source: News 24
Angolan security forces have raped women and girls from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo who came to Angola's diamond fields in search of work, Human Rights Watch charged in a report on Monday.
Source: The New York Times
The number of women dying from pregnancy and childbirth has dropped sharply in the last two decades, according to a report by a consortium of United Nations agencies set to be released on Wednesday.
Source: People & the Planet
The number of women dying in pregnancy and childbirth worldwide has been cut almost in half in the past 20 years, but much more remains to be done, according to a study released today by several United Nations agencies.
Source: Health Canal
Researchers find alarming prevalence of malaria and sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women and call for urgent trials.
Source: Business Daily Africa
A friend tells of a rather sad story of him being in the rural part of Kenya and coming across a pregnant woman on a wheelbarrow being rushed to a clinic.
Source: IPSNews
Have women around the world become more empowered in their reproductive health and rights over the past 18 years? This is one of the questions that some 300 parliamentarians from around the world will be examining when they meet in Istanbul, Turkey, this week for the Fifth International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) programme of action.
Source: AllAfrica
The sod was cut on Saturday for construction work to begin on a GH¢240,000 Maternity Block for the Ejisu Government Hospital, which is being funded by MTN Foundation Ghana.
Source:United States Embassy
"Women parliamentarians call for help" according to an article in Nord-Sud Quotidien (p. 5). The newspaper reports on a roundtable discussion organized by the National Democratic Institute (NDI), an American NGO promoting democracy, to reinforce Ivorian women parliamentarians and NGO leaders' participation in conflict resolution and the peace process.
Source: News of Rwanda
About 50 families in Bushekeri sector in Nyamasheke district have finished a 4 days training on the Thursday the 17th.May.2012 that was prepared and given by the National Women Council (CNF).
Source: Aswat Masriya
This chapter presents statements of presidential candidates about the rights of women.
Source: IPS
The Angolan government is being urged to carry out a thorough and independent investigation into allegations of sexual and physical abuse by its security forces against Congolese migrants.
Source: IPS
CHIPATA, Zambia, May 21, 2012 (IPS) - Climate change may have led to declining water levels in Genda Village in Zambia’s Eastern Province, but Mercy Mwanza and the women here discovered there was a positive side to it and found a new way to earn a living.
Source: PeaceWomen
"War is an international business." These words of our WILPF sister, Annie Matundu-Mbambi (President of WILPF- DRC), resonated throughout the 2012 AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development held in Istanbul, Turkey.
Source: Democratic Alliance
Evidence has emerged that shows that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has been aware of flaws in legislation regarding sexual offences as early as 2010.