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.
A severe drought and high food prices have forced many pastoralist families in northern Kenya to re-examine traditional roles. Women are now not only engaging in commercial activities, such as hawking and basket-weaving, but are also working nights to put food on the table.
Testament to an ongoing process of increasing gender equality, Khadra X. Ismail Yonis has been elected Somaliland’s first female mayor.
Source: Awarness Times
Four members of the All Political Parties Women’s Association (APPWA) were assaulted during the bloody violence that erupted in Bo on Friday September 9, 2011, an APPWA press release has confirmed.
More than 100 million women worldwide wear diamond engagement rings, but at what cost to women in mining communities in Southern Africa and elsewhere?
Source: Health-e
In 1996, when South Africa returned to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the country made a resolution that declared violence a public health priority. But violent crime still remains endemic, with women and girls especially at risk.
Source: allAfrica
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissesar and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will join other prominent women leaders for a high-level dialogue at the United Nations in New York on 19 September.
The African Child Policy in cooperation with Plan, Save the Children, UNICEF and UNFPA organized a Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Violence against Girls in Africa on May 11-13, 2006. Unfortunately the issues raised on that event have still not been resolved. So, we will re-visit these issues again to draw attention to the need to address them in more effective ways.
Violence against women is one of the most common abuses of human rights. Its scope includes forced marriages, rape, sexual harassment, intimidation at work and in educational institutions, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, trafficking and forced prostitution.
In the spirit of celebrating African excellence, ITNewsAfrica has decided to profile 10 African women who have been pivotal in the development of Technology on the continent.
Source: IRIN News
Most Somali women fleeing to northeastern Kenya's Dadaab in northeastern Kenya have never visited an antenatal clinic, let alone given birth in a hospital.
Source: Nairobi Star
A woman aspirant in Bomet county has urged married women to go back to class to stand higher chances of benefiting from the county government and fight poverty in the society. Cecillia Ng'etich said education is the only tool to use in fighting for positions
Source: New Vision
At least 224 women and teenage girls were tested during a free community breast and cervical cancer clinic.
A brave mother, Hadjara Oumarou, sat under a tree with her estranged husband, Oumar Sidik, outside their local village courthouse here in Chad’s Tandjilé District. Their 10-year-old daughter Amira (not her real name) sat between them.
Last year, peace was restored to Chad after several years of armed conflict and the country promises a better future for all. But young girls remain vulnerable to sexual and gender-based violence from forced marriages, rape, polygamy and genital mutilation.