Source: FOROYYA
Women working at the Banjulinding horticultural garden have expressed their concerns regarding the high cost of electricity, lack of water and markets for their produce. The women gardeners made these complaints when this reporter visited the garden over the weekend.
Source: Vanguard
In line with the call by the United Nations for countries to ensure long-term food security, Federal government has been urged to enact policies that would ensure women's ownership of land in the country.
Source: The Moment
HUNDREDS of women on Monday morning blocked a major highway along Zaria/Kaduna road, to protest against their forced eviction by the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) from their ancestral home at a village behind Barakallahu, near Rigachikun, a satellite town in Kaduna.
Source: Sudan Tribune
The Islamic Fiqh Council in Sudan issued a fatwa (religious order) saying that it is forbidden for the country to create a womens soccer team, deeming it an immoral act.
Source: Public Agenda
Even though government has put measures in place to ensure gender equality and women empowerment, their status has not changed when it comes to representation in political offices hence, likelihood for further reduction of women in Parliament come 2013 making Ghana part of countries in Africa with bad records on women's representation.
Source: Rwanda Focus
When entering one of the cosmetic shops in town, the sight that greets you is of rows of products that are supposed to give smoother, lighter skin to the almost exclusive female clientele. "I want my skin to be brighter and smoother," one lady in the shop explains, confirming the persistent perception among some women that lighter-skinned people are more beautiful or have a better social and economic status.
Source: News Day
South Africa's Home Affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who is vying for the African Union Commission chairperson position, has pledged to focus on the development of the continent, including fighting and reducing poverty and underdevelopment if she lands the top job.
Source: Nairobi Star
Former Limuru MP George Nyanja has in partnership with the CFSK and the Kenya Post Office Savings bank donate 10 computers to women's groups. Nyanja speaking in Nyambari, Lari district, said the women approached him asking to be empowered with computer skills.
Source: Daily Monitor
At least 4,000 women in Karamoja have been enrolled for family planning to help households improve their livelihoods. Officials from Maries Stopes, an NGO working in collaboration with the Ministry of Health on reproductive health issues in the sub-region, said the response is positive.
Source: Business Daily
I welcome the recent Capital Markets Authority push for more women seats in the boardroom. The reason for this should not be gender equality but a more businesswise approach.
Source: Daily News
THE Deputy Minister for Community Development, Gender and Children Ummy Ally Mwalimu has urged youths to actively participate in the constitutional review process.
Source: TrustLaw
Dorcas Mbvuto, 32, was raped by a spiritual leader in her church in April 2010 on the outskirts of Queens Park West, a Bulawayo suburb. Three months later, the quiet woman was shocked when she discovered that she was pregnant with his baby, says one of her sisters, who declined to be named.
Source: RNW
Mali's President Amadou Toumani Toure has signed a new family law, an official said Friday, after it was revised due to pressure from Muslim groups to cut out sections providing for greater women's freedoms.
Source: New Democrat
In an accelerated drive to promote youth empowerment, especially adolescent girls across the African continent, the government of Japan has granted US$86,206 to Youth Crime Watch of Liberia (YCWL).
Source: Daily News
"WHEN you educate a woman, you educate a nation," says Kalunde, whose foster child was thrown out of her rural school and her home after becoming pregnant. "A woman is a mirror and spends much of her time with her children." Every day across Tanzania, hundreds of schoolgirls become pregnant, bringing their learning to a halt.
Source: New Democrat
As the nation yearns for President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to reveal the full slate of her new government, she has assured that appointment this time will reflect ethnic and gender balance, while former officials who performed with integrity in the past government, are likely to resurface in the new administration.
Source: Capital FM News
Former Police Commissioner Major General (Rtd) Mohammed Hussein Ali who is now the Postmaster General, is among six suspects facing possible indictment before the International Criminal Court's Pre-Trial Chamber.
Source: HRW
Many democracies have allowed their ties with repressive allies to temper their support for human rights in the Arab Spring protests, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012. For reasons of principle and long-term interest, governments should stand firm with the people of the Middle East and North Africa when they demand their basic rights and work to ensure the transition to genuine democracies.
Source: ON LINE opinion
On 31 October 2000, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1325 (SC1325) affirming the importance of women's voices in the resolution of war and conflict. http://www.un.org/events/res_1325e.pdf (accessed 20 January 2012) For women and women's organisations, this was an extraordinary achievement.
Source: HRW
Libya's interim government and its international supporters should make it an urgent priority to build a functioning justice system and begin legal reform that protects human rights after Muammar Gaddafi, Human Rights Watch said today, in releasing its World Report 2012.