Source: SW Radio Africa
Hundreds of members of pressure group Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) took to the streets on Monday for a peaceful protest to Parliament, as part of a global campaign against gender violence.
Source: Aljazeera.com
Egyptians have come out to vote for the first time since their January 25 uprising ousted former-leader Hosni Mubarak; and people say it is the calmest election they have ever seen in heavily armed upper Egypt.
Source: WNN
CAIRO, Egypt: On Egypt’s first day of elections, women’s participation was visibly large in the country’s first post-revolution elections to choose “the revolution parliament.” The high female turn-out comes despite the low numbers of women who are running for the Parliament.
Source: WNN
ZIMBABWE, Africa: Three-year-old Runyararo screams every time she sees a man. She was found abandoned at a bus station. When the Girl Child Network Worldwide (GCNW) took her for an examination there was evidence of sexual assault, and attempted penetration, a clear sign of rape though she has not yet been tested for HIV/AIDS.
Source: allAfrica.com
The 1992 Constitution spells out fundamental human rights and freedoms for all citizens and specifically provides for rights to equality and freedom from discrimination.
Source: allAfrica.com
Johannesburg, South Africa — Lusaka, 24 November: It's five am, the day before the International Day of No Violence Against Women that kicks off the Sixteen days of Activism campaign. My alarm rings barely six hours after I arrive in the Zambian capital and I am in a panic as I will be speaking in a few hours about why we need better ways to measure gender violence. I rummage through my email to find the invitation to the Lusaka seminar from the Irish Embassy and UN agencies and reflect on a few numbers.
Source: allAFrica.com
Visitors to Kisumu are marvelling at the clear waters of Lake Victoria. For four months, the lake weed, hyacinth, has migrated from the lake shores due to what experts attribute to strong winds that came with the short rains. But the fisher folk who are more conversant with the waters are not in a celebratory mood. Fish stocks too, appear to be dwindling.Among the groups that are mostly affected by the consequences of the drop in amount of fish are women who are involved in the fish trade.
In the tin warehouses at the back of Jebel Market, in Juba, capital of South Sudan, the business of sex is booming; in the rows and rows of tiny, dark, padlocked rooms - a so-called "sex camp" - girls and women practise the world's oldest profession in the world's newest country.
The Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Justice Bamford Addo has called on women advocates in Africa to open Facebook accounts to raise funds to support women who want to enter politics.
Source: Africa Legal Aid
And they said it couldn’t be done! Despite suggestions in some quarters that an African candidate would not have merit to be the next Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Africa has scored meritorious and geographical victories in the election process.
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) joins the global community in commemorating the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence-an international campaign which seeks to raise awareness about gender based violence.
Until the afternoon of November 7, 2011, no Liberian had thought that politics would be the basis for the breach of peace and security in postwar Liberia. But, it was.
THE 16 days of activism against gender-based violence (GBV) kicked off with women - and a handful of men - marching down Independence Avenue on Friday to demonstrate their frustration over the unrelenting violence against women and children in the country.
An Egyptian blogger who sparked controversy last week by posting a photo of herself naked online has also launched a campaign calling on men to don the Islamic headscarf.
As a young girl, Garmar Murphy was forced into a child soldier’s life, serving as a sexual plaything for Liberian rebels between battles — a tragic norm in the country’s savage conflict.
Source: Gender Links
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the global Sixteen Days of Activism on gender violence campaign, and 10 years of the annual commemoration in Southern Africa. Each year during Sixteen Days, we stop and ponder achievements and accomplishments, and assess how much further still to go.
Voting began slowly on Monday in Congo's second-post war elections, held in the vast and volatile Central African nation despite fears logistical problems would delay them and irregularities undermine the results.
Al Shabaab rebels banned some U.N. and international aid agencies from working in Somalia on Monday and began seizing and looting some of their offices in southern and central areas of the country, the Islamist group and aid sources said.
The forthcoming parliament, which the Egyptian nation is looking forward to as a first step on a thorny road to democracy, is likely to have poor female representation. Women running in the elections on party lists complain that they have been placed at the bottom of the lists, which means hardly any chance at winning.
For the past years, the Ghana’s enlightenment movement have shown that rational choices are essential to how Africans distinguish and argue about their culture in relation to their progress.