PUBLIC Protector Thuli Madonsela has called on women in public life to use their positions to advance the course of justice, freedom and constitutionalism in honour of struggle heroines such as the late Albertina Sisulu.
The most devastating drought for decades is currently facing the Horn of Africa. Somalia has been the worst hit and, as is so often the case, famine has led to armed conflict and instability in this fragile region.
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Ignorance of laws and individual rights is among the major challenges in Rwanda's effort to prevent Gender Based Violence (GBV), a Gender Monitoring Office (GMO) report has established.
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Chairman, House of Representatives Ad hoc Commi-ttee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele, has concluded plans to sponsor a Paycheque Fairness and Violence against Women Bills
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PAN Nigeria Limited, manufacturers of Peugeot brand cars yesterday graduated another set of female mechanics.
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Having slept with hundreds of men, exposed to drugs, Beatrice Chanda's life was condemned to nothing. The possibility of her living a normal marriage life after so many years in prostitution, to anyone seemed impossible.
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Ester Abeja has experienced both physical and emotional atrocities. She was captured by Uganda's feared rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and was forced to join them.
Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, a Zimbabwean human rights activist who grew up in Murewa, is the General Secretary of the World Young Women's Christian Association and is the recent recipient of the Women’s Human Rights Defenders Award. She spoke to Grace Chirumanzu from her base in Geneva, Switzerland.
International funding for HIV fell by 10 percent in 2010 from the previous year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation and UNAIDS; activists worry that a continued reduction will undermine progress in global HIV prevention and treatment efforts.
As more women in developing nations are empowered to promote their own advancement and security, NGOs can't forget those who have the power to instantly change the treatment of women -- men.
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A United Nations envoy on Thursday expressed her concern about reports of sexual violence against women and girls who are attempting to flee famine-stricken Somalia.
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POKOT women still practicing FGM have been told they are at risk of missing out on husbands. The warning contradicts earlier beliefs that uncircumcised girls are not fit for marriage.
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Fighting against violence against women - especially rape and sexual abuse - will aid development in countries that need it the most, a conference in Zurich has heard.
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Although there is a female presidential candidate contesting Zambia's Sept. 20 general elections, her prospects are not strong. And in fact, fewer women overall are likely to be elected into public office this year, analysts say.
ANY person who intentionally transmits HIV to another person commits an offence and on conviction the culprit shall be liable to life imprisonment. This amounts to gender violence and is partially what the HIV and AIDS Prevention Control Act
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Proactive Gender Initiatives (PGI) Friday appealed to the Federal Government to set up programmes to empower women so that they can help solve problems in their homes.
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Rita Kiprotich, 16, had a grand dream - to become a doctor and help the Sabiny access better health services and improve maternal health in the area. At the age of 10, Kiprotich topped her P5 class of 100 pupils.
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The Centre for Gender Empowerment (CEGEMP), a Non-Governmental Organisation has called on Nigerian parents to attach great importance to the education of their female children.
Throngs of women who attended the annual women’s parliament in Mafikeng on Friday called for economic engagement by women in order to mainstream their voice.
In a desperate attempt to stamp out all forms of violence against women and give them economic empowerment, the Chairman, Ad-hoc Committee of the House of Representatives on Media and Public Affairs, Michael Opeyemi Bamidele,