Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a joint Nobel Peace Prize winner as a champion for women's rights, whose steely nerves have been tested at the helm of a deeply divided post-war Liberia.
Source: Daily Nation
Lawyers are facing a dilemma over how to meet the constitutional threshold for women's representation in their society's council when they elect new leaders next month.
Liberia's Nobel peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will be sworn in Monday in a lavish $1.2m ceremony after her disputed re-election in the nation's second post-war polls.
Source: TrustLaw
Sophie Mixte, who is in her 30s, says she was raped three times while growing up in Douala, Cameroon's largest city.
The furious noise around the enactment of the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act seems to have quietened down and many institutions are going about the business of complying with the law or, at least, making the right noises and gestures.
First Lady Salma Kikwete has encouraged women in the country to continue pushing for their basic rights in an effort to achieve social and economic freedom for themselves and for their country.
THE year gone by, 2011, was a year marked by people's protest movements across the world --- a year of agitations and struggles. It started with the eruption of mass protests in the Arab world. On January 14, Tunisia led the way, followed by Egypt, the most populous country in the Arab world. In Egypt, 18 days of angry protests at Tahrir Square brought an end to the 30 years long autocratic rule by Hosni Mubarak.
As current staff members at Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), an organization that has advanced the health and human rights of women and girls over four decades, and longtime reproductive justice activists, we continue to hope that safe and affordable abortion care will, someday, become a reality for everyone. With increasing attacks and restrictions on abortion access worldwide, we have our work cut out.
Gender stereotypes disadvantage women in many ways. A book by Rebecca J. Cook and Simone Cusack examines these stereotypes from a legal perspective and argues for a transnational legal approach to dismantling them.
Source: Angola Press
A two-day training on business undertakings started on Thursday in Cabinda City, in a promotion of the ruling MPLA party's female wing (OMA), in partnership with the provincial Secretariat of Business and Private Investment Support, ANGOP has learnt.
Source: The Herald
Seated on the edge of the bed, Sarudzai smiled faintly looking luminously grateful at her husband. "I could have died if it were not for you," said Sarudzai, leaning her head sideways and holding back tears in her eyes.
In my previous post, I created a series of maps on the treatment and economic opportunity offered to women around the world. Today, I look at the connection between women's economic opportunity and economic development.
Last September a striking story stole the headlines of newspapers and media outlets all across Ghana. Samia Nkrumah, the daughter of the nation's founding father, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, became the first female chairperson of a political party in the country's history as an independent state.
Source: The Standard
FIFTY-YEAR-old Anna Nyoni's married life has been a nightmare.
Voters often regard politicians with derision — so often, in fact, they may lose sight of the extent to which elected officials are role models for younger people. Indeed, new evidence suggests that when those politicians are female, they play a highly influential and positive role in the lives of young women.
Source: The Standard
WOMEN and Aids Support Network (Wasn) says it has unearthed several unreported rape cases of the disabled and young girls during an ongoing awareness campaign on sexual and reproductive health, which the organisation is conducting throughout the country.
Source: The Standard
A recent report: Baseline Study Report on the perceptions of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Mbare, Harare, Zimbabwe by Medicines Sans Frontiers and the University of Zimbabwe, says lack of transparency and gaps within the judiciary system allows perpetrators to escape retribution.
The African Union (AU) has unveiled an ambitious wish-list of priorities for Africa that would give the continent a stronger global voice, boost democracy and encourage peace and security.
Source: AllAfrica.com
Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the promise of sustainable development will be revisited again at the 2012 Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development next June.
Source: RH Reality Check
African countries are too often lumped together as one big composite of grave statistics and chronic epidemics. Because of this, it’s especially important that the global development and reproductive health communities recognize and amplify those success stories that can be told. Especially when these stories are designed and driven by local efforts.