Source: UN News Centre
While lauding the progress made over the past year in the global effort to save women’s and children’s lives, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today noted that millions of them are still dying needless deaths and called for advancing the goal of saving 16 million lives by 2015.
The FCT women wing of the Christian Council of Nigeria (CCN) at the weekend inaugurated its executive comprising of 10 members to run the council's affairs in the territory.
Following is a joint declaration issued at the conclusion of the September 19, 2011 United Nations Women event on Women’s Political Participation.
Boosting women’s political participation and decision-making around the world is fundamental for democracy and essential for achieving sustainable development, women leaders taking part in a high-level event at the United Nations declared today.
Whether one considers the direct effects of military rule and conflict on women, or the global economic implications of the US war-on-terror, militarism threatens to strip away all the 20th century gains in women’s rights, dispossessing us once more. African women must take a stand, says Amina Mama.
Newly drafted election laws in Egypt may hamper female representation in parliament, worrying activists.
Where have all the women gone? Long time passing. This year alone, there will be over 30 presidential elections held around the world. Over half of these will be in Africa. On 20 September 2011, Zambia goes to the polls to elect a president, members of parliament and local councilors.
Source: UNICEF
This past June, the National Popular Assembly (ANP) of Guinea-Bissau approved a law prohibiting female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) nationwide. The controversial law had been on the table for discussion for 16 years, before it was ultimately approved by 64 votes in favour to 1 vote against.
With the highest rate of human trafficking in East and Central Africa, several nongovernmental organizations in Kenya are now under investigation by INTERPOL , the world’s largest international police organization, with 188 member countries. The Interpol Sub-regional Bureau for Eastern Africa is based in Kenya’s capital in Nairobi.
Source: ANGOP
The role played by Angola in the context of the nations, special in resolution of political crisis and stability of various countries in the African continent was stressed Wednesday by the acting governor of the southern Cunene province.
In Africa, access to positions of political responsibility remains an exception for female politicians. But this is changing. In 2006, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became the first woman elected at the head of a country: Liberia.
Source: Women's Enews
Rebels with the Lord's Resistance Army abducted Florence Ayot, 31, in 1989, when she was 9 years old.
Fair hiring in China. Literacy in Mali. NEWSWEEK’s rankings reveal where women are winning—and where the gains are slow to come.
Source: African Press Organisation
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Dr. Jean Ping, met, Friday 16 September 2011, in Addis Ababa, with The Deputy Prime Minister Hon Thokozani Khupe of Zimbabwe, who is currently visiting Ethiopia.
In a bid to meet the Millenium Development Goals (MDG's) numbers one, three, five and eight, Tanzanian women entrepreneurs are holding an exhibition for their products and services to grow the largest women's trade fair in the country.
Source: Sunday Times
US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, has hailed Rwanda's strides in fighting HIV/AIDS and decreasing the rates of cervical cancer in the country, as well as its measures against malaria.
Gender equality matters in its own right but is also smart economics: Countries that create better opportunities and conditions for women and girls can raise productivity, improve outcomes for children, make institutions more representative, and advance development prospects for all, says a new World Bank flagship report.
Source:UN News Centre
Youngsters in Guinea-Bissau will receive comprehensive sexual education in primary and secondary schools thanks to a United Nations workshop to support efforts by the small West African country’s education ministry.
West Africa Network for Peace building (WANEP) in partnership with Crises Management Initiative (CMI) has launched a project on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Accra.
When long-time humanitarian Margie Buchanan-Smith was interviewed for one of her first field posts - in Sudan in the 1980s - she was asked: “Will you burst out crying when you arrive?” “No,” she replied - and got the job. But when she arrived she was one of few women on the ground, and was always questioned if she was up to it.