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.
Source: The Economic Times
Her bare feet coated with mud, Sabena Gitau trudged down the rain-sodden hillside to her banana plantation, machete in hand. She chose and cut several giant bunches of bananas, which she strapped to a motorbike to be taken to nearby Saba Saba town, 77 km (48 miles) north of Nairobi, to be weighed, graded and sold.
Source: Heritage
President Joyce Banda of Malawi, Africa's second female Head of State, used the occasion of an official visit to her counterpart, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, to speak about her difficult journey to the presidency,
Source: Daily Trust
A Women group, Nigerian Female Students Network (NIFEST) has called on the Kogi State Governor Idris Wada to ensure gender equality in the appointment of his cabinet.President of the association, Comrade Blessing Alaofin,
Source: The Informer
President Joyce Banda of Malawi, Africa's second female Head of State visited Liberia over the weekend and used the occasion to speak about her difficult journey to the presidency.
Source: Daily Trust
Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan will on Friday flag of a new job scheme for women known as the Lady Chauffeur Training Scheme (LCTS) designed to train young female Nigerians to become professional drivers.
Source: The Herald
Malawi's NGO Gender Co-ordination Network on Monday expressed concern over low female representation in President Joyce Banda's cabinet released last Thursday in which out of 30 ministers and deputies, only eight are female.
Source: RFI
Women around Ghana's Lake Volta are being trained as pilots and primary healthcare workers in an attempt to fight the water-borne disease schistosomiasis.The women have begun delivering health-related materials to isolated communities around Lake Volta.
The campaign for the legalisation of abortion in Botswana has taken unprecedented levels in the recent past. The Assistant Minister of Local Government Ms. Tshireletso has called on government to consider legalising abortion. There is another dimension to this issue. It relates to reproductive rights of women and their right to determine when to bear children. Liberty relates to the right to do what is permitted by law.