Source: IPPMedia
Recently, an NGO - Kivulini – that fights against women’s discrimination and gender violence released the findings of a study which show that more than 48 per cent of women in Tanzania are subjected to various forms of discrimination and violence.
Sesedzai Rupuwu owns nothing except the tattered clothes that are neatly packed in her small, faded suitcase.
It is time to challenge the conventional explanations of gender based violence. Patricia Daley argues that it can only be understood in association with contemporary geo-economic forces and the Central African experience of modernity.
Zambia has come a long way in trying to achieve social, economic and political development. Several initiatives have been put in place by many stakeholders, all aimed at addressing the development challenges that this country has faced.
The United Nations should select more women to serve as mediators in conflicts and during political transitions, Liechtenstein told the General Assembly today, calling on the entire international community to do more to promote the participation of women in conflict prevention and resolution.
Talibouya Ka, Muslim leader (imam) of the Omar Kane mosque in the Medina neighbourhood of the Senegalese capital Dakar, encourages his followers to procreate as much as they can. “There are imams who are for family planning, but I am not. I tell worshippers they need to increase the size of the global Muslim family.”
UN Women Executive Director Remarks at USAID and DFID event on “MDG Countdown 2011: Celebrating Successes and Innovations” New York, 21 September, 2011.
Source: UN News adio
The President of Brazil has become the first ever woman to open the General Assembly’s main annual debate, the so-called general debate.
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.