Source: The New Times
Members of Women's Council in Gatsibo District have reasons to smile after registering tremendous achievements last year.
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Source: The Herald
AN old rusty black pot sat in the corner of a dark room, its contents slowly seeping from three small holes forming a meandering "stream", which flowed onto a reed mat. On the mat Agnes Rukawo of Muzarabani, who had just given birth to a baby girl, lay motionless, tired from the five hours of labour.
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Source: UN Nnews Centre
A senior United Nations official welcomed today the news that a Guinean court has filed charges against an army colonel accused of being responsible for mass rapes that occurred during a pro-democracy protest in the country’s capital in 2009.
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Source: UN WOMEN“I never thought I would be able to pay the school fees for all five of my children and our family’s health insurance costs as well!” exclaimed Euphrasia Musabyemariya.
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Source: UN WOMENIt has been one year since a wave of political change set Egypt on a challenging but promising path to reform. Yet, while women played a crucial role in bringing the transition about, many feel that they are yet to fully benefit from it.
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Source: Public AgendaThe Police are unable to enforce the laws against female genital circumcisers effectively because most of the personnel do not have sufficient knowledge of the policies guiding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Ghana, says Mr Elvis Sandogo, head of the Social Service unit of the Police Hospital.
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Source: AlertNetEngineer Anna Dembele’s smile broadens as she shows off the low-carbon cooking kits she makes. The association she belongs to now plans to promote use of the equipment across Mali, helping people cope with inflation and tackling deforestation in the bargain.
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Source: AWIDIn Africa land rights are critical to economic power. In recent history, there have been three waves of land grabs: colonization, post-independence and present-day land grabs for commercial and apparently environment preservation purposes . Governments and corporations continue to wield their power to the detriment of women in Africa.
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Source: News24As Napoleon Bonaparte once stated: “Women are nothing but machines for producing children”.
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Source: The ZimbabweanForty-five-year-old Gertrude Murefu was born into poverty in the rural area of Chiendambuya in Rusape. Today, she is just one example of a highly regarded pioneer of women’s rights.
At the helm of the Zimbabwe Women’s Rights Association, Murefu believes that women should be wholeheartedly committed to the process of political and economic change.
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Source: Human Rights WatchThe decision by investigative judges in Guinea to file charges against a high-level military official allegedly implicated in grave violations of human rights during a massacre of protesters in 2009 is an important step toward ensuring justice for the victims, Human Rights Watch said today. Security forces were implicated in the killings of more than 150 opposition members and the rape of over 100 women in the aftermath of a peaceful demonstration.
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Source: FOROYAA
"Female genital mutilation is widely practiced in The Gambia and whether this tradition is religion or not it is a form of violence against women and young girls that have to be brought to light and stopped.
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Source: Times of Zambia
THE beatings started in their second year of marriage. Agnes Manda had just given birth to a baby, Sarah when her husband John, started coming home late and drunk.
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Source: Daily News
HUMAN rights activitists have urged the government to designate an International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) so as to send a stronger message to communities that practice it.
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Source: Daily News
DOCTORS and nurses have hailed civil society organizations that drafted the Motherhood Bill, saying it will help improve maternal and reproductive health services.
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Source: FOROYAA
The women horticultural gardeners in the settlements of Brufut, Kembujeh and Lamin have during the course of last week, through the Gambia Horticultural Producers and Exporters (GAMHOPE), benefited from support in the form of assorted vegetable production inputs provided by the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) project under the Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment.
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Source: Daily Trust
On February 6 2012, the world marked the ninth annual International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). 'Female Genital Cutting (FGC) is the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons.
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Source: News24Johannesburg - The man accused of orchestrating the torture and gang-rape of his estranged wife and the killing of her son - is due to make a second appearance in court on Friday.
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Source: News24
35-year-old woman walked through a field in northern Mozambique, near where a group of teenage boys were undergoing their ritual circumcision into adulthood.
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Source: Africa RenewalAfrica’s political independence was accompanied by a clarion call to eradicate poverty, illiteracy and disease. Fifty years after the end of colonialism, the question is: To what extent has the promise of that call been realized for African women? There is no doubt that African women’s long walk to freedom has yielded some results, however painfully and slowly.
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