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.
Source: UNFPA
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today praised the involvement of leading businesses in the global effort to tackle women's and children's health.
Source: Commonwealth Secretariat
Commonwealth Chair-in-Office spearheads high-level meeting at UN attended by Hillary Clinton and Michelle Bachelet Commonwealth Chair-in-Office Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called for greater efforts by world leaders to promote women's participation in politics, saying it was an important step for development.
Source: World Bank
The World Bank is supporting increasing access to finance for Egyptian micro and small enterprises that play a vital role is the creation of employment opportunities and improving the conditions of the most vulnerable citizens.
Source: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
After just having spent five years in prison for performing an abortion, Sudanese gynecologist Ibrahim Abdulhadi is concerned he will be forced to stop practicing his profession. Abortion is illegal in Sudan.
Source: All Africa
Assistant Minister of Cooperative Development and Marketing Linah Jebii Kilimo has lauded the move by the Parliament to pass the anti-female genital mutilation Bill 2011. She termed the act by the Parliament as a major boost in the fight against the outdated practice.
Source: IRIN
Last year, an estimated two million women around the world developed breast cancer or cancer of the cervix (the neck of the womb); more than 600,000 died – the equivalent of six large passenger planes crashing every single day.