Source: AllAfrica
Vice President of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA), Mr. Affail Monney, on the occasion of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence has reminded the media of their constitutional duty to uphold the principles enshrined in the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Source: news24
There is a lack of media coverage on the laws, issues and policies relating to violence against women, a study by the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre has found.
Source: TrustLaw
When women in Zimbabwe visit a beauty shop, many will leave with more than a new hairdo. Some 1,500 hairdressers around the country prominently display and sell female condoms.
Source: aids-free world
Remarks by Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, delivered at a plenary session at the 2011 International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, December 6, 2011.
Violence against women is a global pandemic? Like H1N1? Like in Contagion? No way. Think of your instinctive response to the idea of a worldwide bio-terror -- that's what your response should be to the normalized level of violence against women around the world. Because, here's the thing: women are not a special interest group and fighting for the ability to live without violence is not a pet project.
Community Development, Mother and Child Heath deputy minister Jean Kapata has said women parliamentarians will lobby Government to make all cases of violence and defilement against women and girls non bailable.
The Central Regional Coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), DSP George Appiah Sekyie, has warned those who abuse women, especially those with disabilities, that they would be prosecuted when reported.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said election gains by Islamist parties must not set back Egypt's push toward democracy after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak this year; meanwhile, Clinton addressed head-on the fear that the hardliners will crimp women's rights.
Kenyan parliamentarians have been meeting in Nairobi since Monday to discuss how they can best support the improvement of women’s and children’s health.
Ghanaian women have been advised to come together as one voice to promote issues concerning their rights to better their lot.
The presentation of the 2012 National Budget was characterised by a lot of hype and expectation among the media, the business community, civil society and the rest of society.
Women’s groups such as Women in Black have long led the way in challenging the mindsets and structures of patriarchal power and militarism, but men must recognise that they have the primary responsibility to make the changes, says Rebecca Johnson.
This year, for the first time, the World Bank dedicated its 2012 annual flagship World Development Report to women as indispensable players in the global economy and launched a media campaign to "think equal".
The State Council on Tuesday adjourned till Dec. 27 a case against the military institution to end the practice of virginity tests.
While female voters are turning out in huge numbers for the elections, some feminists are boycotting them. Women have been turning out in force in the early days of Egypt's parliamentary elections this week, some queuing for as long as seven or eight hours to cast their vote. But there are mounting concerns that the first election since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak will not provide the longed-for improvement in women's lives.
After repeated delays, Libya announced the lineup for a transitional government that will draft a constitution and prepare the country for elections.
Source: IRIN
AIDS activists have welcomed a pledge by US President Barack Obama to provide antiretroviral treatment to some six million people globally by 2013, an increase of two million on the previous target.
United in song and in views, participants of today’s Rural Women’s Forum gathered at the Occupy Land site just outside the Inkosi Luthuli International Convention Centre to raise their views.
An International expert on Women’s and Health Specialist has spoken out on the topic in the number of deaths occurring worldwide from maternal mortality. “It is a human rights violation because most countries in the world had signed to the United Nations declaration on the right to life,” says Ottowa, Canada based Dr. Andre Lalonde, former executive vice-president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
Whose culture, and to what end? These questions cropped up again last week when Mandla Zwelivelile Mandela, an ANC MP better known as the grandson of Nelson, met with the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre, the Rural Women's Movement and the Commission on Gender Equality to clarify his position on ukuthwala.