The Executive Director of Ark Foundation, Mrs. Angela Dwamena-Aboagye, has called on young women in the country to add their voices to the crusade for peace and security for the 2012 elections.
We are just beginning to understand how a changing climate can impact rural men and women quite differently in different agricultural systems across Africa and Asia. This is partly due to the differing roles and responsibilities men and women have in various cultures vis-a-vis food production, marketing, consumption and income generation.
Today, Mediaplanet Publishing releases the fourth edition of their Investing in Women and Girls publication series. Reaching over three million readers, the publication will be distributed as a special sixteen-page broadsheet section within USA Today in the high-impact markets of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Washington D.C., and will also be distributed at numerous industry events and online venues.
South African Deputy Minister of Trade & Industry Elizabeth Thabethe, who is currently on a visit to India said here Friday that women had a major role to play in the global economy.
Source: Daily Maverick
Speaking on World Tuberculosis Day, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said the government wants to reduce the HIV infection rate to zero by 2032. Such a future seems impossible given the government's shortcomings. Yet civil society is hopeful the dream just might come true. By GREG NICOLSON.
Source: Nigerian Tribune
Questions have been raised in several fora, which seem hitherto elusive. Why are Nigerian women playing a second fiddle in politics? Why the male chauvinists in politics are confining the role of women only to rendering care of the families at home is a puzzle many of us can not yet unravel. As Sara H. Longue, a gender equity advocate once said, "women's endless toil, productive and reproductive contributions sustain families and communities."
Source: ANGOP
The Angolan Government is working for a greater integration of women in the information and communication technologies sector, said the incumbent deputy minister, Pedro Sebastião Teta.
Source: The New Times
The debate on whether to legalise abortion has gained momentum following a recent study by the Ministry of Health and other partners, which showed that the national abortion rate is 25 abortions per 1,000 females aged between 15 and 44.
Source: Times of Zambia
CHILDHOOD is supposed to be a fulfilling and exciting stage and an experience that should hold memories to be cherished in one's life.
Source: Vanguard
THE Federation of Muslim Women's Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN) has asked the Federal Government to find solution to the menace of Boko Haram.
Forget about working overtime. As ruler of the Ghanaian town of Otuam, King Peggielene "Peggy" Bartels is responsible for the welfare of a population of nearly 7,000 — and that’s not even her day job.
A humanitarian group says if women farmers had the same rights as men much more could be done to reduce world hunger. Bread for the World says equal access to agricultural resources would help ensure food security and boost economic growth.
Women in many parts of the world, especially in Africa, still face critical challenges due to a deeply entrenched patriarchal system and gender stereotypes in society.
Germany`s Hanns Seidel Foundation and the Centre for Good Governance and Economic Development are yet again planning to chip in with support meant to empower Tanzanian women aspiring for leadership positions.
Community Development, Gender and Children Minister Sophia Simba has called on Mara residents to stop outdated practices, including female genital mutilation (FGM), violence against women and marrying off schoolgirls.
Bilene Seyoum raises critical points concerning the safety of Ethiopian domestic workers in the Middle East, suggesting that governments in the region could be institutionalizing a form of modern day slavery.
Judges and magistrates from fourteen Commonwealth Southern and Eastern African countries will meet in Gaborone, Botswana, on 26 and 27 March 2012 to discuss strategies to strengthen judicial activism in cases of violence against women.
“A dead rat is worth more than the body of a woman.” Those were the words of one distraught young woman whom I met in Walikale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2010. As the world was once again outraged at the reports of mass rapes in early June 2011 in the DRC’s South Kivu, her words came back to me. Those attacks marked the fourth incident in a series of mass rapes which took place in the previous 18 months in the country.
The United Nations police chief today called on Member States to ensure that peacekeeping personnel found guilty of sexual exploitation and abuse are punished and that everything possible is done to prevent such crimes from being committed in the first place.