Source: Women E-News
After stirring an outcry for her article in Foreign Policy magazine, Egyptian-American columnist Mona Eltahawy on Tuesday night offered a vigorous defense of her views that the real Middle East revolution is yet to come, between men and women.
Source: Women E-News
Clinicians sent to a Ghanaian ethnic group chide mothers for obeying kinship health rules, writes Aaron R. Denham in this excerpted essay from "Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience." The result is double-whammy pressure.
Source: Alert Net
One month after arriving at WFP, Executive Director Ertharin Cousin was out in the field in the central African nation of Niger, one of the countries most affected by the drought in the Sahel region. After the first day of her field trip, in which she traveled with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, the WFP chief sent back this account of her experiences.
Source: IRIN News
ANTSOHIHY, 4 May 2012 (IRIN) - Daughters as young as 12 in the villages surrounding Antsohihy, the capital of Sofia Region, in Madagascar's remote, traditional north, often suffer the harmful consequences of falling pregnant and giving birth too young when parents accept zebus (cattle) or cash as a dowry.
Source: IPS News
OUAGADOUGOU, May 7, 2012 (IPS) - It's called "the bearing of the body" in Burkina Faso: when a death is deemed suspicious and a group of men carry the corpse through the community, believing the deceased will guide them towards the person responsible for the death. The accused - almost always women – are then chased out of their homes.
Source: Euronews
Radio has often been used as a weapon of war in Africa. Caddy Adzuba is a journalist for Radio Okapi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At all costs, she uses her voice to call for peace.
Source: RNW
The plight of child soldiers in Africa has grabbed the headlines in recent weeks, first with the 'Kony 2012' video from the Invisible Children pressure group, and this week with the conviction of former Liberian President Charles Taylor for aiding the recruitment of child soldiers. But what is overlooked by many is how many of those children are girls.
Source: The Daily Observer
A collaborative initiative dubbed 'Empowering Rural Women Mobile Phone Project' by the American Embassy in Banjul and the Forum for African Women Educationalists The Gambia (FAWEGAM) was recently launched in Nyakoi Taibatu village in the Wulli West District, Upper River Region (URR).
Source: The New Times
It is often said that educating the girl child is equal to educating a nation. In most developing countries, Rwanda included, the girl child, has historically had a raw deal in regard to access to education.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
THE number of female students majoring in science and technology related subjects in colleges remain low due to gender stereotypes.
As the gap between promise and delivery of continental and international treaties grows larger, African women and girls are growing cynical by the day
Source: Vancouver Sun
ABIDJAN—It took a mother’s last wish, and a man to make it happen, but Ivory Coast now has it’s first all-women orchestra in what is hailed as a little "revolution" in this fiercely patriarchal society.
Source: Coastweek
As the gap between promise and delivery of continental and international treaties grows larger, African women and girls are growing cynical by the day.
The entry into force of the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women on Nov. 25, 2010 provided an opportunity to enact legislative frameworks across the continent that build and extend the freedoms of women.
In the remote east Kenyan village of Makutano, Jane Mutinda Maingi is feeding maize to her Friesian dairy cow, bought just a week ago with proceeds from selling produce grown on her one-hectare plot.
Source: East Coast Radio
The number of ambulances that are dedicated to maternity emergencies are set to be increased as part of a continent-wide campaign to prevent the death of mothers and babies in childbirth.
Source: Nernama
The percentage of women in the Mozambican armed forces has risen from 4.5 to five per cent in recent year but is still low in comparison with other southern African countries, according to the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
Source: Eurasia Review
The Sudanese government forces are conducting indiscriminate bombings and abuses against civilians in the Nuba Mountains area of Southern Kordofan, Human Rights Watch said today. Such attacks may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, and are creating a humanitarian crisis, exacerbated by the government's denial of access to humanitarian agencies outside government-controlled towns, Human Rights Watch said.
Source: The Daily Observer
A four-day capacity building training workshop for women and political representatives organised by West Africa Network for Peace-Building (WANEP)-Gambia ended on Thursday at the Jenoi Agricultural Farmers Training Center, Lower River Region.
Source: The Herald
The UN Children's Fund on Tuesday called for "an immediate end" to the abduction and rape of girls and women and the recruitment of child soldiers in Mali. "Human Rights Watch issued on Monday a compelling report that details testimony about abductions and rapes of girls and women by armed groups in northern Mali and the recruitment and use of children by armed groups," Unicef Executive Director Anthony Lake said in a state- ment.
Source: Namibia Economist
The importance of empowering girls from a very young age was again emphasised at the Southern Girls Conference which was held from 26 to 30 April.