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.
Collaboration between the two agencies dates back to 2008, when the initial cooperation agreement was signed between UNIFEM (now UN Women) and the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), with the aim of harnessing tourism’s potential to contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Last month, ovarian cancer claimed another dynamic woman, 71 year-old social activist, ecologist and Nobel Laureate, Wangari Maathai.
When Linda*, 16, entered into an agreement with her well respected 40-year-old teacher to exchange sex for good grades, she had no understanding of the inherently exploitive nature of the relationship.
In many countries across the globe, individual and community security is threatened by high rates of violent crime. South Africa is no exception. Countless victims of rape, sexual assault, domestic abuse and other forms of violent crime are often left traumatized and with long-term physical and psychological injuries.
Former U.N. peacekeeping commander Patrick Cammaert says rape is one of the cheapest weapons in war. Fortunately, solutions are cheap, too.
Source: This Day
The Ekiti State House of Assembly has passed the Violation Bill which provides protection from gender- based violence, particularly for women and children.