Source: Atlantic Monthly
As wars become less about states and more about societies, women can play a greater role in shaping or ending conflicts. So why do we still think of war as inherently male?
RURAL women have come out tops in justifying any form of violence perpetrated against them by their husbands, an indication that cultural beliefs are still strongly linked to domestic violence despite having the Domestic Violence Act in place, the recently published Multiple Indicator Monitoring Survey 2009 has revealed.
The U.S. hunger and food security initiative, Feed the Future, is improving the lives of smallholder farmers by increasing food production, improving nutrition, expanding access to markets, and boosting incomes. Many of the farmers are women, who play vital roles in agriculture and food security.
Leaders and diplomats from nine African countries, Haiti and several international organizations gathered in Rwanda this week to devise ways to build lasting peace in countries ravaged by war for decades.
The pro-democracy movement has toppled some dictatorial regimes and left others hanging on a cliff in the Arab world. A large part of the credit for its success goes to women of the region who spoke out for change, explains Indeevar Goodwill.
Innocents worldwide continue to be deliberately violated, Secretary-General says during Security Council open debate on civilian protection. Human Rights Commissioner, Assistant Secretary-General Among Speakers Stressing Need for Accountability, Redress for Victims.
Source:AWID
(WNN) Deauville, FRANCE : “I came here to stand up for the voiceless mothers of Africa,” says thirty-one-year-old Ugandan nurse midwife and woman’s advocate Esther Madudu at Global Meeting 2011 of the Women’s Forum for Economy and Society in Deauville, France. She begins with murmured conversations dying down to hear her speak. “When people ask me: ‘What can we do to help you do your job?’ I answer: I need more of me. Every year, more than 200,000 women in Sub-Saharan Africa die during pregnancy or childbirth, just because medical care was too expensive or difficult to reach.”
Violence against women has been and is still exercised as an old and prolonged phenomenon in Egypt. It is largely expanding, often due to low cultural or social environments.
In Mbedza village, a remote rural community in southern Malawi, Fedson Feston beams an infant’s awkward smile and swings his tiny arms up towards the face of his mother. Four months old, Fedson is too young to know how lucky he is to be alive.
An Important report calls for social protection measures to become a permanant part of a new strategy of inclusive growth.
Source: AlterNet
When post-revolution Egypt holds presidential elections next year, Buthaina Kamel is set to become the first woman in the country's modern history to run for the highest office. Although she knows her chances of winning are slim to none, she says she's doing it out of principle.
Source: New Vision
November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It also marks the beginning of the international campaign of 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children that ends of December 10, which is the International Human Rights Day.
Source: Women News Network
(WNN) Opinion Rabat, MOROCCO: According to a recent study by Morocco’s High Commission for Planning, the national institute for statistical analysis, 68 per cent of Moroccan women have experienced domestic violence and 48 per cent have been subjected to psychological abuse.
Source: Forbes
You can find the future of the world’s women not in Scandinavia or the U.S., but among the entrepreneurs who line the streets of Mumbai, Manila and Sao Paulo.
Source: The African Star
Even though many African governments have ratified international and regional human rights treaties and have made commitments to respect, promote and protect women’s rights and to eliminate discrimination against women, the translation of these commitments into national laws, policies and programmes remains a challenge.
Source: allAfrica.com
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan will on November 14, decorate another batch of eminent Nigerians with various awards in recognition of their contributions to the growth and development of the nation.
Source: New Vision
AGED 25, Ruth Nyangoma should have graduated from university and, probably, found a job. She has not. Instead, she is a secondary school student preparing to sit her A’level examinations this year at Mutanywana Secondary School Kyarumba in Kasese.
Source: All Africa
The director of the National Institute to Fight against HIV/AIDS, Dulcelina Serrano Monday in Luanda said that women register a greater number of HIV infection than men especially in rural areas.
Source: All Africa
Of the more than 34 million people living with HIV worldwide, half are women and three quarters of the world's HIV positive women live in the Sub-Saharan Africa.
Voters in Liberia headed to the polls Tuesday to choose the country's president, defying one candidate's call for a boycott that has sparked violent protests and inflamed divisions in the west African republic.