Source:New Times
Different actors involved in the fight against Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) met in Kigali, yesterday, for a national consultative forum to map the way forward in fighting the vice.
Source: All Africa
Tunisia helped inspire change across the political landscape of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Now it approaches its next historic milestone on the path forward with Constituent Assembly elections on October 23 to elect the men and women who will write the new constitution and establish the rights and freedoms of all citizens.
Two United Nations agency chiefs today committed to work together to empower rural women through investment in education, economic integration and security initiatives.
Egyptian women’s organizations announced Saturday the reestablishment of the Egyptian Feminist Union, a group that dates back to 1923 when it was originally founded by activist Hoda Shaarawy.
In the eight months since the revolution, Egypt's women have learned that the fight for their rights is only beginning. In the immediate aftermath of this spring’s revolution, something new and unfamiliar happened in Egypt: women and men participated equally in political events.
Poor rural households in developing countries were the hardest hit by the 2006-2008 food crisis, with women at a particular disadvantage because of their lack of access to resources like credit, land, technologies and infrastructure.
Source: New Democrat
As post election violence spreads to the media, several women comprising members of the Women in Peace Building Network (WIPNET), Tuesday paraded the streets of Monrovia with placards denouncing all forms of violence in the country.
Source: Shabait
The Administrator of Gash-Barka region, Mr. Musa Rab'a, said that the role of women is of vital significance in the government's endeavors to ensure social justice.
Source: IPS
As streams dry out, groundwater levels dwindle, and forests and other vegetation yield to droughts or sever storms, women who live their lives in the rural areas of Ghana have to spend more time and energy finding water and food for their families.
The Network for Women?s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) has taken note of the significant inroads women have made into the leadership of the Convention People's Party (CPP).
Source: Reuters
Sub-Saharan Africa faces daunting problems staving off famine in coming decades but food and development experts also say one solution to the problem is obvious: Empower Women.
Every so often in the course of our daily lives, momentous events emerge reminding us of the power of everyday people to shape history and our collective future.
Source: Gender Across Borders
In most parts of sub Saharan Africa, the role of women in food and nutrition security cannot be overemphasized. Women are the producers of food in their communities. Women are also the people who prepare food for their families.
With women's rights and gender equality high on the global agenda, campaigners should reassert the importance of feminism so long as they don't try to impose 'feminist solutions.'
Angeline Mwarusena, 61, sits on a small wooden bench in front of her hut, head bent, shoulders slumped. Her voice is barely audible.Four years ago, three soldiers from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) entered her home, hit her and raped her repeatedly. One after the other.
SOURCE: Tanja Bause, allAfrica.com
EDITH Mbanga, a member of the People Square Saving Group and the national facilitator of the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia, was awarded the UN Habitat Scroll of Honour in Mexico recently.
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Source: IRIN
ANTALAHA, 12 October 2011 (IRIN) - Daniel Soadava and Samoela Razafindramboho are known as "the mean women" in Antalaha, a small town on the east coast of Madagascar. "Men complain that we are always saying bad things about them," they laugh.
Source: AWID
The African country of The Seychelles has agreed to decriminalize homosexuality. The agreement is part of the country’s feedback to the United Nations Human Rights Council as part of the Universal Periodic Review process. The Pacific Island nation of Palau also agreed to decriminalization.
They are making a mark in a job long dominated by men. At the City Mortuary, four women have quietly but meticulously been washing, treating and helping in the disposal of unclaimed bodies.
Source: The New Times
Residents of Nyanza District in the Southern Province have been urged to join efforts to combat Gender Based Violence (GBV) and completely uproot the vice.