Across the Darfur region of western Sudan, female workers weighed down by heavy buckets are a common sight on building sites.
Many women, especially in rural communities, have been prevented from playing greater roles in influencing political, social, economic or even developmental and environmental community decisions that could improve their living conditions. For a long time, men have sidelined women from the development process, in the belief that they knew what was needed. Such prejudices have been hard to overcome.
Would the world be more peaceful if women were in charge? A challenging new book by the Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker says that the answer is “yes.”
Forum for African Women Educationists (FAWE), in collaboration with Plan Liberia, has officially launched a US$2.5 million program.
Women in the country say their struggle for equal rights is universal, whether the Islamists or military are in charge. With a tumultuous year behind it, Egypt is bracing for a fresh start - but this new democracy carries some old baggage, including the classic challenge of the marginalisation of the country's women.
Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development Hajiya Zainab Maina has said she would soon be meeting with the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria to seek his intervention on enabling women get waivers from commercial banks on their credit facilities.
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg paid an official visit to the American embassy in Tunis, Tunisia on February 4th, 2012.
Grisly and ghastly are probably the most apt words to describe the story that appeared in this newspaper yesterday, of a young woman whose hands were chopped off by an angry ex-husband (Man held over attack on ex-wife, Daily Monitor, February 6).
Commonwealth News speaks to four women entrepreneurs who have been sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat to showcase their products at Spring Fair International in Birmingham, UK. "We have to recognise the potential of women, and encourage their entrepreneurial spirit"
Inside a smoky makeshift kiosk, Julie*, 16, can hardly cope with the demand from her clients for a cup of tea and a snack - the men are parched from their work as gold miners in the western Kenyan district of Nyatike.
As U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro once put it, "Women hold the keys to unlocking the barriers to sustainable development."
Source: Africa Review
Sometime in 2010, a young Kenyan woman received an invitation to meet a couple she had earlier encountered at a Christian convention in the capital Nairobi.
Source: VOA
As presidential hopefuls began campaigning for Senegal's February 26 election, the sole female candidate, Amsatou Sow Sidibe, was touring the country's coast shaking hands and speaking to the market women along the beaches of the country's capital. "I'm with the women along the sea who sell the fish," she said from Dakar. "I'm doing a tour of the coast and talking to fishermen and those who sell the fish, because without them the country cannot properly feed itself."
Source: Sierra Express Media
Schoolgirl Nomasonto Masango giggles as she lists the things she and her friends want boyfriends to buy them. "If you have an older boyfriend, he can buy you things and it is nice to show your friends that you have things," says Nomasonto. The most prized items are cell phones, jewelry and fashionable clothes.
Source: Health-e
About 1 in 10 women of reproductive age suffer from a chronic and painful condition known as endometriosis. The disease can impact on the lives of women in a considerably adverse manner.
A new United Nations report shows that almost 2,000 communities across Africa abandoned female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) last year, prompting calls for a renewed global push to end this harmful practice once and for all.
Source: The Gazette
A Calgary imam will take the bold step of issuing a fatwa — an official religious edict pronounced by a scholar of the Muslim faith — against honour killings and domestic abuse on Saturday.
IT IS widely accepted that strategies aimed at ending violence against women have to focus on perpetrators and survivors.
At 72 years, Hon Anna Margareth Abdallah has an enormous of experience as a Member of Parliament (MP). She has had eight terms of five years each in Tanzania's Parliament and is still a member of the house which she first entered when she was 32.
Schoolgirl Nomasonto Masango giggles as she lists the things she and her friends want boyfriends to buy them. “If you have an older boyfriend, he can buy you things and it is nice to show your friends that you have things,” says Nomasonto. The most prized items are cell phones, jewelry and fashionable clothes.