Source: Irin News
The main threats to women in South Sudan derive from chronic deficits in health, economic opportunities, access to food and gender equality, rather than weapons, despite the prevalence of militias and armed conflict, according to the Small Arms Survey.
Source: Times of Zambia
SHE is a regular presence on the streets of Freedom Way in Lusaka begging for alms from well-wishers. She is blind and describes her life as painful and full of strife.
Source: The Morung Express
Jean Shinoda Bolen, a best-selling author and internationally-known lecturer, is a qualified psychiatrist and Jungian analyst. She is presently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California Medical Center. Her fan following includes the acclaimed novelist Alice Walker, who once wrote that “the healing power of Jean Shinoda Bolen’s work and thought transform all who will allow encounter”, and feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who has observed that Bolen has shown people how “the cult of masculinity is endangering us all.” Pamela Philipose interviewed her in New York.
Source: IRIN
Nairobi — The main threats to women in South Sudan derive from chronic deficits in health, economic opportunities, access to food and gender equality, rather than weapons, despite the prevalence of militias and armed conflict, according to the Small Arms Survey.
Source: RNW
About 2,000 Malawian women Friday staged a protest against attacks on trouser-wearing women, who were stripped in the streets this week by a gang of unemployed youths and sidewalk vendors.
Source: RNW
More than 200 women were let out of jail for 24 hours after President Abdoulaye Wade declared Friday a "day of giving" in which no ladies should be in prison, the justice minister said in a statement.
Source: IPS
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 19, 2012 (IPS) - The proportion of abortions deemed unsafe rose from 44 percent in 1995 to almost half (49 percent) in 2008, according to a new study released Thursday.
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika on Thursday told women to be free to wear "what you want", saying the country had no dress code barring women from wearing trousers.
A new study by the New York Guttmacher Institute states that the number of women having induced abortions has stayed stubbornly high since the last such report in 2003, and that the marked reduction in the eight years before that has not been maintained.
Source: Human Rights Watch
The Ethiopian government under its “villagization” program is forcibly relocating approximately 70,000 indigenous people from the western Gambella region to new villages that lack adequate food, farmland, healthcare, and educational facilities, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. State security forces have repeatedly threatened, assaulted, and arbitrarily arrested villagers who resist the transfers.
Women are at a crossroads in the Middle East and North Africa. This is widely reflected in the current battles over the adoption of quotas aimed at improving women's chances of being elected into parliaments. Although women's quotas were introduced as early as 1979 in Egypt, there are new efforts underway in the Middle East to implement them.
Source: Zimdiaspora
A 15-YEAR-OLD girl from Marange who was married off to a geriatric member of the largest polygamist Johanne Marange Apostolic Sect — but was lucky to escape, this week bared her soul and exposed the torturous abuse she encountered at the hands of the churchman and her own father.
Source: Winnipeg Free Press
There is a story told in my family about a feisty great-aunt who changed the course of history by the simple act of speaking. This great-aunt was the host of a radio show when Zimbabwe was still Rhodesia and my generation, the "born free" generation, didn't exist.
Source: Sudan Tribune
Sudan has demanded the United Nations Security Council to reduce the number of the Joint African Union United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) saying the positive developments in the region since July 2011 justify such demarche.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail
WOMEN in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF) has said alcohol abuse and failure to stiffen laws regarding gender-based violence (GBV) have contributed to the increase in the cases, adding that there is need to quickly implement the anti-GBV Act.
Source: International Business Times
Betty Makoni is an activist who set up Girl Child Network Worldwide to help girls who have been abused in Zimbabwe and other African countries. She experienced hardship and abuse in her own life, but rather than give up she fought even harder for her rights and those of others.
Source: Southern Times
Although many societies are becoming more tolerant to prostitution as the years roll by, women remain the primary victims of the violence and degradation that comes with the "world's oldest profession".
Source: Angola Press
The minister of Family and Women Promotion, Genoveva Lino has appointed a technical group from the sector to monitor, support and capacity building of family counselling centre.
Source: RNW
Malawi's police have arrested a gang that had been terrorising trouser-wearing women in the capital Lilongwe by stripping off their clothes, a spokesman said Wednesday.
Source: Truthout
Why do some men assume they are entitled to sex in any way they can get it - incest, date rape, marriage trafficking, buying it in prostitution, extorting it in exchange for food in refugee camps or sexually assaulting their fellow soldiers? For more than 100 years, activists worldwide have fought against the victimization of women through sexual violence.