Source: RNW
In Guinea, the family of the woman who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault feel the dropping of charges against him is injust, but said Wednesday it was in God's hands.
While Tunisia's revolution successfully ousted Ben Ali, women's rights could now be in jeopardy. For 55 years, Tunisia celebrated Women's Day every August 13, representing the push for gender equality that has been one of the hallmarks of the North African nation's post-colonial era.
Source: All Africa
There are six Kenyans who are currently in the world's limelight, and for once, they are not members of the Ocampo Six.
Amina Abdalla, a 45-year-old mother of seven, lives in northern Kenya's Marsabit District, where life is a daily struggle for scarce water and pasture.
“The main issue for many women in Zimbabwe is politically motivated violence. And it is not just rape that we are talking about. We are talking about beating and violent sexual assault of women, just because they vote for a party of their choice,” says Zimbabwean women’s rights activist and filmmaker Kudakwashe Chitsike from the Research and Advocacy Unit.
Source: IRIN News
Amina Abdalla, a 45-year-old mother of seven, lives in northern Kenya's Marsabit District, where life is a daily struggle for scarce water and pasture.
Source: SACSIS
In 2008 hundreds of South African women donned their miniskirts and protested at the taxi rank where a young girl was brutally accosted by taxi drivers and hawkers for wearing a short denim skirt.
Source: IPS
Marguerite Kassa feared she would find herself alone in the small crowd of a dozen other pregnant women at the integrated health centre in Mossendjo, in the southwestern Republic of Congo.
Source: BBC News
A New York judge has dismissed the sexual assault case against former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The move came as prosecutors cited doubts over the credibility of his accuser, 32-year-old hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo.
Source: All Africa
A group of 12 women from villages in Sierra Leone is in the frontline of a battle to bring solar-powered electricity to rural communities. No small feat, given that rural Sierra Leone is not connected to power.
Endometriosis has been an enigmatic disease since its first diagnosis in the mid-19th century. Since that time, there has been a continuous stream of information and discoveries, but up until today, there are still many unanswered questions.
Source: AllAfrica
"WOMEN think that when you're married, you don't have to worry about HIV. They think it is a safe haven,"said Beauty Nyamwanza of the National Aids Council.But marriage can actually fuel the risk of HIV among women, particularly the young.
Source: RNW
“My breasts started developing when I was 12,” says Blandine Lusimana, 31, who still remembers how her mother began trying to manipulate the way her breasts developed when she reached puberty.
At a public meeting in the village of Benena, in Mali’s Segou Region, a gathering of women collectively shot their hands up in the air when asked why girls’ education in their community had been neglected in the past.
In this article, our special correspondent dwells on the plight of poor Tanzanian women. He asserts that it is also unfortunate that the current policy and legal frameworks put more weight on political emancipation than ensuring economic survival of Tanzanian women bearing in mind that a hungry woman lacks confidence and ability to pursue her rights.
Source: Joburg
In an attempt to build bridges between local and foreign women, the City of Joburg and the Department of Home Affairs held a women’s dialogue where issues of xenophobia and language difficulties were tackled.
Source: RNW
In Cameroon, parents use various methods to delay the sexual development of teenagers. Some massage the developing breasts of young girls, a technique also known as the "repassage des seins", or the ironing of breasts.
Tunisia has led the Middle East on women's rights and toppling autocracy. Now women are in line to run for office in equal numbers as men in the first elections. The threat of rollbacks and reversals also lurks.
Source: Guardian
Women are not forbidden from riding bicycles in Zimbabwe. But the absence of women on bicycles in our village led me to believe that they were.
Source: UN News Centre
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon once again today stressed the need to accelerate efforts to accomplish the global poverty eradication and social development targets, urging all partners, including the private sector and civil society, to work with governments to ensure the goals are achieved by the 2015 deadline.