Source: UN News & Media Radio
3.5 billion women and girls around the world still don’t fully enjoy their human, economic and social rights, according to the Prime Minister of Sweden.
As Ethiopian women’s rights organisations struggle to stay afloat following government legislation that prohibits them from receiving international funding, violence against women continues to rise, writes Billene Seyoum Woldeyes. But in the absence of social and institutional support, where can victims of gender-based violence turn to for help?
Women musicians are finding a powerful voice in the showbiz sector otherwise dominated and controlled by men.
And when the sisters find their place they do not waste time and simply shine like a constellation of stars.
Ms Ruby Sandhu-Rojon, UN Resident Coordinator on Friday called on Ghanaians to work towards the attainment of peace, necessary for a successful election in 2012.
The Mass Media minister, Carolina Cerqueira, Thursday in Brasília stressed the political agenda of the Angolan Government that aims to allow women greater participation in the development, implementation and monitoring of development strategy in the country.
GENDER advocates are vigorously campaigning for the new constitution to reserve quotas for women in government and all public institutions as a way of promoting women’s participation in decision making.
Source: BBC
Wangari Maathai rose to prominence fighting for those most easily marginalised in Africa - poor women.
Africa's first women Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai dies in Nairobi while receiving cancer treatment, aged 71.
General Assembly President Welcomes Newest Member State; Calls for Transparent, Impartial Negotiated Israeli-Palestinian Peace.
Source: The Guardian
The former finance director of Nigeria who is now a managing director of the World Bank"When I became finance minister they called me Okonjo-Wahala – or Trouble Woman," says Nigeria's former finance and foreign minister, now a managing director of the World Bank.
Women in Nigeria are planning to march in protest at what they say is a hidden epidemic of rape and sexual violence in Africa's most populous country.
A quota system to ensure the participation of females in Libyan politics will increase segregation and reduce the changes of the right women being elected to the new government, said Laila Bugaighis, chairwoman of the National Protection from Violence Committee, part of the National Transitional Council’s Ministry of Health.
Swapo secretary-general Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana admits that talk of a woman president in Namibia has earned her political adversaries from within the ranks of Swapo.
Old Mutual rewarded with certificates the first group of women who participated in the Old Mutual Namibia's Women's Micro Business Project on Monday.
A global effort to improve health services and prevent the deaths of 16 million women and children is making progress according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Violence against women might soon be levelled out and consigned to its proper place in the trash bin. This follows formidable challenges being put up by the womenfolk to fight the menace.
In an abandoned port on the outskirts of Tripoli, a young woman timidly peeks out from behind the blanket that forms a wall in her improvised home. She is one of hundreds of migrants who have gathered in this makeshift camp since a popular uprising to overthrow dictator Muammar Gaddafi spread to the Libyan capital in August.
Source: IIP Digital
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that if the international community wants a safe, secure, prosperous and peaceful future, then women must be equal partners and free to realize their own potential.
Source: All Africa
A Family Planning expert in the Ministry of Health, Thomas Nsengiyumva, has urged women to always seek professional advice prior to using family planning methods.
Source: All Africa
Women candidates were the most vocal and drew the loudest applause from voters as the joint campaigns for Senate aspirants in the City of Kigali ended in Kicukiro District yesterday.