Source: The Mail & Guardian
For 15 years Thato Serite has made her living as a prostitute along Botswana's busiest highway, hired by truckers plying the main route to South Africa.
Source: allAfrica.com
Benin — APART from Libya where an all female soldiers were said to have provided security for slain Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, in Edo State, it has become a common sight by commuters seeing female drivers at the State owned Edo Intra-City bus, otherwise known as the "COMRADE BUS".
Source: allAfrica.com
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was confirmed the victor of a run-off poll boycotted by the opposition, and vowed to reach out to her opponents and reconcile the divided nation.
Deputy Chief Justice of Kenya’s Supreme Court Nancy Baraza, who made history as the first woman appointed to the post, has begun overhauling the country’s judiciary.
Source: All Africa
El Geneina — Renowned women's activist Safa Al Aqib tells Radio Dabanga that Darfur won't flourish without uplifting women
Source: The Chronicle
Thousands of women were last Friday taken through an extensive breast cancer screening exercise at Bechem, in the Tano South district, as part of this year's Breast Cancer Awareness celebration.
Source: Vanguard
President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered immediate evacuation of no fewer than 100 Nigerians trafficked out of Nigeria who are now stranded in Mali.
Ethiopian woman entrepreneur, Samrawit Moges, was honored, as one of a 100 women from across the globe, with inspirational achievements. The award, organized by The International Alliance for Women, was held in Washington DC on the 27th of October.
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.