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Community Development, Gender and Children Minister Sophia Simba has called on Mara residents to stop outdated practices, including female genital mutilation (FGM), violence against women and marrying off schoolgirls.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.
The police say the advertising of illegal and dangerous backstreet abortions isn't their problem -- it's a matter for the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), because it's similar to "selling a car".
“I used to sell fish under the trees, and carry fish on my head. I would wake up at 4am to walk a long distance to buy fish from the fishermen. Now I sleep and wake up normal hours, and have my tea before the Captain comes. I never thought I would have time to sleep, eat, work and rest like this!”
I should have known that ambition and success were not to be expected in an African woman. An African woman should be a good African woman whose qualities should be coyness, shyness, submissiveness, incompetence and crippling dependency. A highly educated independent African woman is bound to be dominant, aggressive, uncontrollable, a bad influence.” Professor Wangari Mathaai (1979) right after the collapse of her marriage with Mwangi Mathai
Source: DAWN.org
Empowering female farmers in developing countries is crucial to solving the world’s food problems as an era of food price spikes looms, the chair of a panel which advises governments and donors on agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa told Reuters.
The turmoil in northern Mali is thwarting efforts to treat and prevent obstetric fistula, say health experts and local NGO workers.
Source: New Vision
A total of 320 women in Mbarara were on Saturday screened and tested for breast and cervical cancer at Mbarara referral hospital in western Uganda.