For women, who have long been invisible during and after conflict, truth-seeking is an opportunity to have their experiences recognised and their roles understood, as survivors and agents of change.
Source: Gender Links
March is known to be human rights month in South Africa. Every year, 21 March is well marked on most South Africans' calendar, a day on which we celebrate human rights. The day is celebrated against the backdrop of a progressive Constitution that guarantees freedom of choice, equality and forbids discrimination on the basis of race, gender and sexual orientation among other things. As a woman in this South Africa, I am questioning myself about my identity and place in society.
Source: IPS
Political instability, civil strife and humanitarian crises in Africa have over the past decades reversed countless maternal health development gains on the continent, health experts warn.
Source: IPS
Martha Borete Angela's gaze sinks to the ground as she admits neither of her two children was delivered by a midwife or doctor. The 28-year-old South Sudanese woman shared this fact in front of her classmates: first-year students in a programme for midwives at the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, a city in the western part of the country.
Source: The New Dawn
Superintendent-designate, Etweda Cooper has promised empowering for the youths and women of Grand Bassa County, if confirmed by the Liberian Senate. Speaking during confirmation hearings at the Capitol Building on Monday, Miss Cooper said development for youths and women remain a concern in every quarter of the country and Grand Bassa is no exception.
Source: Daily Trust
Not fewer than 200 elderly women who suffer from various forms of eye diseases in Kuje were at the weekend given free eye glasses by Women in New Nigeria (WINN) to help them correct their sights.
Source: ANGOP
Ruling MPLA party's female wing (OMA) secretariat is meeting on Tuesday, in Luanda, to programme the activities for this year, ANGOP has learnt.
Source: Ethiopian News Agency
Netherlands Ambassador to Ethiopia, Hans Blanknberg said the handicrafts sector is one of the sectors that employs and benefits women more than many other economic sectors in Ethiopia.
Source: Guttmacher Institute
The first national estimates of abortion incidence in Rwanda show that one in 40 women aged 15-44 had an abortion in 2009 and that virtually all of these abortions were clandestine procedures that are highly likely to be unsafe.
Source: The Herald
Complaints by Harare Central Hospital that defaulting mothers are crippling operations by sneaking out without settling their fees are only the tip of an iceberg.
Source: The New Times
A group of 77 police officers, 70 of them women, were yesterday commissioned after completing a three-month Police basic training at Police Training School in Gishari, Rwamagana District.
Source: Times of Zambia
PUBLIC prosecutors should handle cases of abuse of woman and children diligently so that they are able to secure convictions against perpetrators.
Source: African Arguments
When the protest movement of Malian women erupted in the town of Kati on January 30, few took notice. The women were mostly "war widows" of Malian soldiers recently killed in fighting against the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA).
Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party, Ennahda, said on Monday that the country’s post-revolution constitution would not mention Islamic law as a source of legislation, signaling a forceful break with ultraconservatives who have been demanding an Islamic state.
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.