Source: IPS
Increasing numbers of Malian women are being raped by Tuareg rebels and armed groups that have swept across the north of Mali since the beginning of year, expelling all government troops from the region.
Increasing numbers of Malian women are being raped by Tuareg rebels and armed groups that have swept across the north of Mali since the beginning of year, expelling all government troops from the region.
Source: UN WOMEN
Women from across Zimbabwe have celebrated the launch of a strategic high-level women’s coalition. The voluntary group will lobby to ensure that the new constitution, currently being drafted, will deliver on gender equality and empowerment for women in the country.
Women from across Zimbabwe have celebrated the launch of a strategic high-level women’s coalition. The voluntary group will lobby to ensure that the new constitution, currently being drafted, will deliver on gender equality and empowerment for women in the country.
Source: UNFPA
Since this story was initially published in early 2010, the contraceptive prevalence rate for long-acting family planning methods has already increased -- from 1.3 per cent to 4.3 per cent according to the Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey, 2011. This has helped boost the overall increase in CPR in the country from 14 to 29 percent between 2005 and 2011. Hormonal implants are one of three contraceptives given priority under the newly formed United Nations Commission on Commodities for Women and Children’s Health .
Since this story was initially published in early 2010, the contraceptive prevalence rate for long-acting family planning methods has already increased -- from 1.3 per cent to 4.3 per cent according to the Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey, 2011. This has helped boost the overall increase in CPR in the country from 14 to 29 percent between 2005 and 2011. Hormonal implants are one of three contraceptives given priority under the newly formed United Nations Commission on Commodities for Women and Children’s Health .
Source: New Vision
Police has sanctioned an internal investigation of its officers who were involved in FDC's Ingrid Turinawe's arrest last Friday over alleged sexual assault.
Police has sanctioned an internal investigation of its officers who were involved in FDC's Ingrid Turinawe's arrest last Friday over alleged sexual assault.
Source: Daily Sun
Ada Agina-Udeh's life revolves around women because her aim is to be a change agent for our society. As the Executive Director of Gender and Development Action (GADA), she is not only a frontline gender activist but also a force to reckon with when it comes to female political participation. She told Daily Sun recently that ignorance is the worst enemy of women in all sphere of life.
Ada Agina-Udeh's life revolves around women because her aim is to be a change agent for our society. As the Executive Director of Gender and Development Action (GADA), she is not only a frontline gender activist but also a force to reckon with when it comes to female political participation. She told Daily Sun recently that ignorance is the worst enemy of women in all sphere of life.
Source: IRIN
Inter-communal disputes over land and the allocation of land to private investors for cultivation, could threaten peace in parts of northern Uganda, warn officials.
Inter-communal disputes over land and the allocation of land to private investors for cultivation, could threaten peace in parts of northern Uganda, warn officials.
Source: Public Agenda
The United Nations Entity on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) has described the violence which has been experienced at certain polling stations over the biometric registration as a manifestation of intolerance.
The United Nations Entity on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) has described the violence which has been experienced at certain polling stations over the biometric registration as a manifestation of intolerance.
Source: Latina Lista
Thousands of women gathering to make the world a better place ― you got a problem with that? You might think some people do if you look at the timeline for the UN-sponsored World Conferences on Women: 1975 (Mexico), 1980 (Copenhagen), 1985 (Nairobi) . . . 1995 (Beijing) . . . and then?? No wonder the crescendo is swelling for a 2015 conference, 5WCW to its friends. Be one! Our founder Patricia Smith Melton explains why and how.
Thousands of women gathering to make the world a better place ― you got a problem with that? You might think some people do if you look at the timeline for the UN-sponsored World Conferences on Women: 1975 (Mexico), 1980 (Copenhagen), 1985 (Nairobi) . . . 1995 (Beijing) . . . and then?? No wonder the crescendo is swelling for a 2015 conference, 5WCW to its friends. Be one! Our founder Patricia Smith Melton explains why and how.
Source: IPS
The world’s recent financial and political upheavals have not been kind to women. In Libya’s Tripoli, female suicide rates increased tenfold during the revolution, while dismal job prospects have young Greek women abandoning their career aspirations, participants in a global forum on women’s rights said over the weekend.
The world’s recent financial and political upheavals have not been kind to women. In Libya’s Tripoli, female suicide rates increased tenfold during the revolution, while dismal job prospects have young Greek women abandoning their career aspirations, participants in a global forum on women’s rights said over the weekend.
Source: Reuters
The head of the African Development Bank said on Sunday he is willing to provide $45 million in budget financing for Malawi to help new President Joyce Banda revive the struggling economy.
The head of the African Development Bank said on Sunday he is willing to provide $45 million in budget financing for Malawi to help new President Joyce Banda revive the struggling economy.
Source: New York Times
This week a cellphone video depicting a 17-year-old girl being gang-raped by seven men between the ages of 14 and 20 went viral in South Africa. The rapists were encouraging one another and offered the girl 25 cents to not report them.
This week a cellphone video depicting a 17-year-old girl being gang-raped by seven men between the ages of 14 and 20 went viral in South Africa. The rapists were encouraging one another and offered the girl 25 cents to not report them.
Source: Today's Zaman
More than 2,000 women's rights activists in town for the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) 2012 forum marched down a well-known street on Sunday in İstanbul's Beyoğlu district.
More than 2,000 women's rights activists in town for the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) 2012 forum marched down a well-known street on Sunday in İstanbul's Beyoğlu district.
Source: Public Service
Female figures have taken pivotal roles during Middle East uprisings. But with women failing to be taken seriously in coming elections, human rights are under threat. Zahid Mahmood reports from the Youth Professionals Summit at the Brussels Forum.
Female figures have taken pivotal roles during Middle East uprisings. But with women failing to be taken seriously in coming elections, human rights are under threat. Zahid Mahmood reports from the Youth Professionals Summit at the Brussels Forum.
Source: UNFPA
As the father of four daughters and as the Executive Director for UNFPA, a leading UN agency working on maternal health, it warms my heart to see that safe motherhood and women's reproductive health are finally being recognized as important development issues.
As the father of four daughters and as the Executive Director for UNFPA, a leading UN agency working on maternal health, it warms my heart to see that safe motherhood and women's reproductive health are finally being recognized as important development issues.
Source: EuroNews
Having served one term as Chile’s first female president, Michelle Bachelet last year became the head of UN Women, an agency working for gender equality and the empowerment of women.
Having served one term as Chile’s first female president, Michelle Bachelet last year became the head of UN Women, an agency working for gender equality and the empowerment of women.
Source: UN WOMEN
We, the Executive Directors of the World Food Programme and UN Women dedicate this Earth Day to the young girls who spend a full day in search of firewood, to the mothers who sell food rations to buy fuel for their family, and to the countless women who are forced to skip meals because wood is not available or unaffordable to cook their food.
We, the Executive Directors of the World Food Programme and UN Women dedicate this Earth Day to the young girls who spend a full day in search of firewood, to the mothers who sell food rations to buy fuel for their family, and to the countless women who are forced to skip meals because wood is not available or unaffordable to cook their food.
Source: UN Radio
Violence continues to be a serious problem in Africa, according to a Tanzanian scholar.
Violence continues to be a serious problem in Africa, according to a Tanzanian scholar.
Source: UN WOMEN
UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet, statement at the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, 20 April, 2012 Washington, DC.
UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet, statement at the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, 20 April, 2012 Washington, DC.
Source: UN Radio
More than half of the world’s poor don’t use banks, leaving them vulnerable to loss, theft and exploitation. More than half of the world's poorest people don't use banks, leaving them vulnerable to theft, loss of money and exploitation, according to a new Gallup Poll conducted for The World Bank. Hardest hit are poor women, who may not have control over their own assets.
More than half of the world’s poor don’t use banks, leaving them vulnerable to loss, theft and exploitation. More than half of the world's poorest people don't use banks, leaving them vulnerable to theft, loss of money and exploitation, according to a new Gallup Poll conducted for The World Bank. Hardest hit are poor women, who may not have control over their own assets.
Source: TrustLaw
When it comes to Islamic law, one short verse in the Koran poses one very big obstacle to advocates for Muslim women’s rights--but they may have found a way around it.
When it comes to Islamic law, one short verse in the Koran poses one very big obstacle to advocates for Muslim women’s rights--but they may have found a way around it.