Source: UN News Centre
11 August 2011 – The United Nations official leading the fight against sexual violence in times of conflict today voiced concern over reports that women and girls fleeing famine in Somalia were being raped or abducted and forced into marriage by bandits and
The United Nations official leading the fight against sexual violence in times of conflict today voiced concern over reports that women and girls fleeing famine in Somalia were being raped or abducted and forced into marriage by bandits and other armed groups as they tried to reach refugee camps in Kenya.
Source: Human Rights Watch
A lack of oversight and accountability for recurrent problems in the health system and abuses committed by health personnel contributes to South Africa’s substandard maternity care and undermines one of its top health goals: to reduce its high maternal death rate, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Source: All Africa
At least 71% of women in Nebbi are ignorant of the ways to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS and other sexual transmitted diseases (STDs).
Source: All Africa
The deputy Chief Gender Monitor, Ramazani Barengayabo, has petitioned districts to support policies aimed at economically empowering women.
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 9 (IPS) – While the exit of the Al-Qaeda-backed rebel group Al Shabaab has led to the first U.N. relief airlift in five years in the capital of famine-wracked Somalia, the situation for women and children remains precarious, humanitarian
The United Nations has encouraged Tanzania to urgently address the problem of violence against children in the wake of a new Government-led survey in which almost three quarters of girls and boys said they had experienced physical violence before the age of 18 at the hands of an adult or an intimate partner.
Long seen as the ugly step-child of HIV prevention, the female condom seems to be gaining popularity through grassroots campaigns, according to a report by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
Source: All Africa
At least 71% of women in Nebbi are ignorant of the ways to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS and other sexual transmitted diseases (STDs).
Source: All Africa
The Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee yesterday agreed to merge the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights Bill and the National Gender and Equality Commission Bill. The move is aimed at clearing the controversy
The economic empowerment of women in South Africa was under the spotlight on Tuesday as the country commemorated Women's Day.
Source: All Africa
The North Bank Regional Gender Action Team (GAT) recently held series of sensitisation meetings in cluster villages of Ngain Sanjal, Kataba, Illiassa, Dasilami, Prince and Pakau Njogu.
Source: All Africa
Twenty-nine teen mothers graduated on Saturday from HANCi's vocational training programme at a ceremony in Bo.
Source: All Africa
A group, Kogi Women Reform (KWI) has said that the body will establish a cassava processing factory in the state.
Source: All Africa
Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe has said women should reject the new constitution if it does not have provision for 50 percent representation for women in Parliament.
Source: Capital FM News
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Regional Director for Africa Bunmi Makinwa has expressed concern that women and young girls are being subjected to rape and other forms of sexual harassment when fleeing from Somalia to camps in Kenya.
Source:AllAfrica
In a bid to utilise their holiday period well, 45 students heading Anti-AIDS clubs from various secondary schools across the country, Sunday completed a training program on sexuality, reproductive health and dangers of HIV/AIDS.
Source: Times Live
Pregnant women in the Eastern Cape often have to buy nurses gifts - including lunches of fried chicken - to receive medical attention.
Source: News24
Freedom from oppression is only a reality for the fortunate few women in South Africa, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday.
Source: Leadership
The first set of rehabilitated commercial sex workers, who have undergone vocational training, courtesy of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), are set for graduation by September 2011.