Source: The Herald
In an effort to promote menstrual hygiene among women and young girls from poor resource settings, a local non-governmental organisation is imparting skills in rural communities to make their own sanitary pads.
Source: Leadership
Is it possible to sell Fura da nono, a milky drink and survive with it? Our correspondents, NANNA SENKUR and ROSE OWOTA ADAH tell the story on how Fulani women are taking care of their needs from the proceeds of the product.
Source: Leadership
State governor, Hajiya Fatima Shema, yesterday launched the sales of grains at subsidized prices to women in the state.
Source: Sudan News Agency
The Minister of Social Welfare and Security, Ustaza Amira Al-fadil, has presented Sudan address at the meetings of the committee on women status at the United Nations.
Source: the Star
Domestic violence against women has always existed in Kenya. The recent past has however seen an increased number of domestic violence cases, where men have become the victims.
Source: the Zimbabwean
"So is our fight for emancipation as women, it might be long and painful, but we will get there."
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo will perform in a special concert at the United Nations dedicated to the global efforts to end Female Genital Mutilation.
The Minister of Social Welfare and Security, Ustaza Amira Al-fadil, has presented Sudan address at the meetings of the committee on women status at the United Nations.
While March 8 is the International Women's Day - an annual day dedicated to women globally, Rwanda will dedicate the whole month of March to women and girls.
"We Taliban warn you to stop working, otherwise we will take your life away," the letter to Fatima K., a woman in Afghanistan, read.
The global anti-poverty movement has added a new tool to its arsenal with the launch of an index that measures women’s empowerment in agriculture.
A senior United Nations official and the renowned singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo today urged all UN Member States and communities to outlaw female genital mutilation (FGM) and raise awareness about its harmful effects, especially in African countries where the practice is most prevalent.
Source: The New Age
The African Women's Decade (2010-2020) is a bold political initiative that aims to put women at the centre of development on the continent. Launched in Nairobi, Kenya, in October 2010, with roots traceable to the UN First World Conference on Women, held in Mexico City in 1975, this initiative aims to create conditions under which the participation of all African women in the continent's socio-economic development can be guaranteed.
Source: The Guardian
The women sat on plastic chairs arranged in a circle, some breast feeding, others with small children at their feet. This is their centre in Ganta, the dusty, vibrant commercial capital of Nimba county in north-east Liberia."Most of the women here were raped [during the war]," says Yarih Geebah, the speaker for Ganta Concerned Women. "But if you don't have money, nothing happens. [For] we, the poor people, we who don't know book … justice don't prevail."
Source: ShalomLife
On Thursday March 2, an IsraAID delegation of Israeli experts will fly to Juba, South Sudan, with the support of a private family foundation and the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and in cooperation with FIRST and the Israel-based NGO Operation Blessing Israel, to conduct the first ever Gender Based Violence (GBV) training program for social workers in the newest African nation.
Source: Tanzania Daily
IF there is anything that is rather disturbing in Zanzibar, it is Gender Based Violence (GBV) which has turned into a routine bitter dose for women and children to swallow.An officer in charge of GBV cases at Mnazi Mmoja Hospital in Zanzibar, Fatma Ali Haji, is on record that her unit receives over three cases of GBV every day. Speaking at a one-day symposium on GBV organised by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA), she said the cases cut across rape, adolescent pregnancies and child abuse.
Source: The Herald
While March 8 is the International Women's Day - an annual day dedicated to women globally, Rwanda will dedicate the whole month of March to women and girls.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
ORAH Antony (not her real name) is a student at Mangi Sabbas Secondary School in Moshi rural district, Kilimanjaro region.
Source: The Herald
NINE out of 24 murder cases recorded countrywide this month are a result of domestic-related disputes, police said yesterday.
Source: The Monitor
A parliamentary committee is investigating security companies suspected of exporting Ugandans into domestic and sexual slavery abroad amid mounting concern over the country's complicity in human trafficking.