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.
Source: UN News Centre
A new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) highlights significant gaps in areas such as education and health, mostly favouring males, as boys and girls in developing countries grow older.
Source: Iewy News
The United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa will hold its thirty-second ministerial meeting in Sao Tome and Principe from 12 to 16 March.
Source: New Dawn
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was shocked Tuesday when 500 women, claiming to be widows of former personnel of the Armed Forces of Liberia, who had converged before the Executive Mansion on Capitol Hill to claim benefits for their deceased husbands.
Source: All Africa
Sociologist Manzambi Samuel on Tuesday, in Luanda, stressed that domestic violence in Angola is a social issue that worries the government and the society.
Source: Daily Trust
About a hundred women in Kano State would benefit from the skills acquisition training programme of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), the State Coordinator, Alhaji Aliyu Umar Yar'adua said yesterday in Kano at the take off of a four-week special training for women in the state.
Source: TrustLaw
Health and education disparities between boys and girls in developing countries tend not to emerge until adolescence, when girls face increased risks of child marriage, HIV/AIDS infection and domestic violence, according to a report from the United Nations’ children’s agency.
Source: The Daily Observer
One Alhagie Sambou, a resident of Faji Kunda was on Monday arraigned before Magistrate Jallow of the Bundung Magistrates Court, charged with threatening violence, contrary to the Laws of The Gambia.
Source: The Chronicle
The Brong-Ahafo Regional branch of the 31st December Women's Movement has taken a swipe at the founder and leader of the Movement, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, describing her recent utterances and actions as malicious and divisive
Source: The Namibian
The University of Namibia (Unam) management knew of the exchange of marks for sexual favours between lecturers and students long before it officially launched an investigation into recent allegations.
Source: The Monitor
As the struggle for survival gets harder by the day with rising costs of basics, people are learning newer ways of getting along. This is what a female group in Rakai has set out to do, with assistance from an NGO.
Source: Daily Monitor
The United States and British governments have launched a four-year Shs213.5 billion project to increase the use of contraceptive services among Ugandans.
Source: The Chronicle
History was made on Saturday, when the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), after a series of postponements of its National Delegates Congress, elected three women for the party's topmost positions, to manage the affairs of the party for the next four years.