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.
Source: Daily Trust
The National Centre for Women Development, Abuja has commenced a gender training course for top government officials and women in top management positions across the country.
Source: Vanguard
NIGER Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has said it would work assiduously with the Federal Government to encourage participation of women in politics which would lead to success of President Goodluck Jonathan's transformation agenda.
Source: Daily Trust
A group of rural women in Adamawa State recently vowed to end poverty in their respective communities by engaging in skill acquisition training in domestic trades. The women made the resolution during a five-day skills training workshop, organised by the Women Education and Empowerment Initiative (WEEIN) in Yola, Adamawa State capital. Correspondent Ibrahim Abdul'Aziz was at the venue of the event and filed in this report.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
ANGLICAN Church Mara Diocese is scheduled to launch a massive campaign against gender based violence (GBV) and HIV/Aids in Serengeti District on Saturday. The function will take place at Maburi village, according to the Programme Manager, Ms Rhobi Samweli.
Source: Gender Links
This year World Press Freedom Day on 3 May marks 21 years of the Windhoek Declaration on Promoting Independent and Pluralistic Media. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the Windhoek Declaration in 1991. This year's celebrations take place under the banner "New Voices: Media Freedom Helping to Transform Societies."
Source: UN News Service
A top United Nations official has voiced her concern about the latest wave of fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), especially in areas that have previously witnessed sexual violence committed against civilians by members of armed groups.
Source: allAfrica
Women want Harare City Council to give them land to grow food crops to feed new mothers at the city's maternity homes following reports that council was failing to feed them. The appeal was made yesterday during a workshop on strengthening transnational partnerships and networks for enhancing participatory local governance.Source: The East African
On Thursday, the Uganda government announced that a police officer had been suspended over the alleged sexual assault on opposition activist Ingrid Turinawe.
Farima Samake, a widow living in the village of Gwelekoro in the south of Mali, regrets obeying her husband when he took their first daughter out of school to take care of her younger brother. "Her father decided it and I didn't refuse," says Farima. "Now she is married in another village not far from here. I think our decision has been an injury to her because if she had studied her life could have been different." Farima didn't oppose the decision because the law dictates that a woman must obey her husband.
Source: 7th Space
The Department of Water and Environmental Affairs has committed to ensuring that 55 percent of women and two percent of people with disabilities benefit from the department's programmes.
Women and girls are at the heart of our families, communities and countries. They also need to be at the heart of our political, economic and social arenas.
Source: IAEA
They are successful, intelligent and determined. And for many, Sarah Nafuna and Jane Mubanga Chinkusu are the role models and the source of inspiration for women pursuing a career in science.