Source: Allafrica.com
Picture yourself in a room with 30 other women - knowing that one of you will die during pregnancy or childbirth. That's not a concept for a macabre TV show - unless it's reality TV.
Souce: Angola Press
Luanda - A delegation of the Organization of Angolan Women (OMA), headed by its secretary general, Luzia Ingles "Inga", travelled Thursday to Brazil, where they will participate in the XV Congress of the Women International Democratic Federation (WIDF), running from 06 to 12 April in the city of Brasilia.
Monitors of the convoluted, drawn-out Zimbabwean crisis will be forgiven for thinking that little has changed, despite the fact that the South African-brokered Global Political Agreement (GPA) signed in September 2008 and initiated in February 2009 remains in place.
Source: Sowetan
WOMEN need to be encouraged not just to occupy management positions in companies but also to start their own ventures. South African women make up approximately half of the country's workforce and play a crucial role in the economy.
Source: ElectionGuide Digest
In the Spring of 2011, the world watched with excitement as decades old dictatorships toppled to popular uprisings in the Middle East. Women were at the forefront of these movements, often leading protests, marches, and social media campaigns to change course and resist the old regimes. In Tunisia and Egypt, old governments crumbled and now, new constitutions are being drafted. Across the rest of the Arab world, elections are being scheduled on candidates and issues to accommodate protester’s demands. Beginning in September, at least half a dozen countries in the region will host elections, including Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Morocco. Egypt in particular will host parliamentary elections in November.
A former Minister of Women Affairs and Youth Development, Hajia Aisha Ismail, speaks with LEADERSHIP’s SA’ADATU SHUAIBU, on the challenges facing women in Nigerian politics.
Source: New York Daily News
$32 billion is being earned every year by unscrupulous criminals running human trafficking networks. The U.N. crime-fighting office said Tuesday that 2.4 million people across the globe are victims of human trafficking at any one time, and 80 percent of them are being exploited as sexual slaves.
Women in Mining, which includes women in small to medium mining enterprises, says the government should allocate claims in Chiadzwa, in the eastern part of the country, to women. The group says calls for access Marange and other major mining concerns have so far fallen on deaf ears.
The United Nations (UN) Women in Liberia has dedicated two peace huts to the women of Weala, Margibi County and the women of Totota and Salala District, lower Bong County.
South Africa has some of the highest rates of HIV prevalence in the world. Over a decade ago, to prevent the mother-to-child transmission of HIV during breastfeeding, the Government of South Africa rolled out a policy providing free infant formula for all HIV-positive mothers.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has completed the renovation of a midwifery school in Al Fashir, North Darfur, in time for Safe Motherhood Day.
Source: VOA
Senegal's new president, Macky Sall, has promised to usher in a "new era" for the West African country. Yet, it is his wife who has sparked particular excitement among Senegalese women, who say for the first time one of their own is taking up residence in the presidential palace as the nation's first lady.
Source: The Herald
WOMEN entrepreneurs have been urged to contribute to the positive transformation of the sectors in which they operate.
Source: The New Vision
World Women MPs attending the 126th Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting in Kampala are calling for equal representation in key leadership positions saying most of the influential positions are taken over by men.
Source: IPS
"There were three people. One person was holding me down; one person was holding my hand; and the other person was doing the job. They lay me down, and..." Fatu said of the female genital mutilation she underwent as an eight- year-old in Liberia.
Source: Vanguard
In a bid to check the challenges of infertility among Nigerian couples, TruCare Fertility Centre, held a free interactive forum for couples, in Lagos, to enlighten them on infertility issues in men and women alike.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
SOME people already think that methods being applied to fight Gender Based Violence (GBV) particularly rape and abuse of women are failing to prevent the dilemmas in the community.
Source: the Herald
ZIMBABWE has been implored to ensure its new Constitution enshrines gender equality and women's equal participation in decision-making. Genderlinks chief executive officer Ms Colleen Lowe Morna said in an interview that Zimbabwe's greatest opportunity in addressing gender disparities was in the new Constitution.
Source: Daily Trust
Wife of former South Africa's former President, Nelson Mandela, Graca Machel, has called on African financial institutions to support women involved in agriculture.
Source: Allafrica.com
To the casual visitor, the dusty, dimly lit room may not look much like a birthing center. But many women consider their babies lucky to enter the world in this mud-walled space in Kibera, one of Africa's biggest slums, because of Emily Mteeshe.