A Congolese doctor, who has treated thousands of survivors of horrific sexual violence, has called for the government to pay reparations to women raped by soldiers.
In recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, UN Women executive director Michelle Bachelet has unveiled concrete steps her agency is urging global leaders to take in an effort to combat the physical and/or sexual violence that up to 60 percent of women will experience during their lives.
These past few months have seen many advances on women’s participation in post-conflict settings; at least on paper. In September, female world leaders gathered in New York to speak about the benefits of involving women in politics, in particular after war.
A top United Nations official today marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women with a call for solidarity with the survivors of sexual violence in conflict throughout the world.
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has called for zero tolerance for violence against women, adding that the pervasiveness of violence against women poses a serious barrier to gender equality.
While no one formula can deal with every aspect of domestic violence, it cannot make women safer if it is harder for them to bring an attacker to justice.
ABANTU for Development and ActionAid-Ghana have called on government and all political parties to ensure that they maintain their respective commitments of promoting increased women's participation in the electoral process.
Non-Governmental Organizations have been playing crucial roles in the gender issue in Nigeria. They have been networking, sharing strategies, best practices and lobbying the various levels of governments to encourage them to implement resolutions, treaties and international conventions and agreements on women's rights and the advancement of women and girls.
A prominent Egyptian activist says that continued sexual assaults of women protestors shows the Mubarak regime's "culture of violence" towards women remains unchanged in Egypt today.
Source: News 24
A city in Sierra Leone is offering a five-year scholarship to girls who keep their virginity until they complete university. The aim is to cut teenage pregnancies by ensuring "that at least 80% of school going girls keep their virginity until they
Source: News 24
Press watchdog Reporters Without Borders urged media organisations on Friday to take care to protect female reporters from sexual assault while covering unrest in Egypt, following several serious attacks.The group initially warned women journalists not to work in Cairo's Tahrir Square, epicentre of the revolt against Egypt's
Source: Open Democracy
When we're looking for the links between war violence and male violence against women in peace time, we need to look for causality and influence, flowing in both directions, says Cynthia Cockburn.
Source: AWID
On the eve of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Gender Action proudly launches its new case study series on International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and gender based violence (GBV).
Source: AWID
FRIDAY FILE: Understanding the inherent contradictions in using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to promote and protect women's rights is an important starting point for women human rights defenders (WHRDs)
Source: IPS
Life in Bwaise – a slum on the outskirts of the capital of Uganda – has never been easy. But increasingly erratic rains over the last three years have brought constant floods to the former swampland.
Source: All Africa
The Secretary General of the Sierra Leone Market Women's Association, Madam Marie Bob-Kandeh has said that market women will hold successive governments accountable should they fail to adhere to
Source: Heritage
Gender and Development Minister, Varbah Gayflor, has asserted that despite efforts to fight against Gender Based violence (GBV) in the country, women are still being abused in so many ways.
Source: Heritage
President Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf has by Proclamation declared Friday, November 25th through Saturday, December 10th, 2011 as the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence to be observed throughout the country as Working Holidays.
Source: Vanguard
A woman, Sadiyya Shuaibu, on Wednesday urged a Kaduna Sharia Court II to compel her husband Muhammad Aliyu to accept the paternity of their two-month old son.
Source: Daily Nation
Violence against women continues unabated throughout the world except in those "enlightened" countries where the issue is taken extremely seriously and sanctions against it are prohibitively stiff.