Source: All Africa
CENTRAL Province Permanent Secretary Denny Lumbama has challenged women in business in the province to take advantage of the Citizen Economic Empowerment Commission (CEEC) and apply for funds to expand their businesses.
If there is one proverb that aptly described Dekha Ibrahim, renowned world peace guru, it is the Chinese adage: "As fire refines gold so suffering refines virtue." Despite the odds and the immense violence she encountered in her rural home in
Source: All Africa
Catholic Christian mothers on Sunday called on the Federal Government to increase maternity leave from four months to six months to encourage exclusive breastfeeding by nursing mothers.
Dakar — When Marie Jalloh first ran for office in 2007, resistance to women in politics in Sierra Leone was so strong she faced harassment and intimidation from local authorities. Now, not only is she a member of parliament; she and other
Source: All Africa
Global Campaign for Microbicides (GCM) and Gender in Development Division(GIDD) will on Tuesday next week hold a two day women's HIV prevention Convention aimed at stipulating the state of the epidemic
Source: Daily Monitor
It is nine years since Juliet Atto returned from LRA captivity after being forcefully abducted by the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) in 1995.
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The maternal death rate in South Africa has quadrupled in ten years, according to a new report.
Source: All Africa
Juba — South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit Friday issued presidential decree appointing Atem Garang as the Chief Whips of the parliament as a women was elected by its peers as additional deputy speaker.
Source: All Africa
Pretoria — As part of preparations for the upcoming UN climate change summit in Durban, the Department of International Relations is to hold a consultative dialogue on women and climate change this week.
Hajia Zainab Mohammed joined the Ibrahim Idris administration few months to the expiration of his two-term tenure n Kogi State. She is a Senior Special Assistant in charge of Rural Women Development, a position she revels in making women
Source: All Africa
The Constitutional clause that requires that no one more than two thirds of any one gender can be elected to a public office has kicked off a storm in the country.
Source: DailyTimes
Enrolment of the girl child must double for the country to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of achieving gender parity in education by 2015
As we celebrate Women's Day tomorrow, we should ask ourselves what more should we do to ensure that the empowerment and emancipation of women becomes a daily reality?
SOURCE: TrustLaw
From horrific childbirth injuries to death in the delivery room, millions of teen brides worldwide face a “silent health emergency” as their young bodies struggle to cope with pregnancy, rights groups say.
Source: TrustLaw
"Nobody wants a woman who passes stools all the time and smells," whispered Farhiya Mohamed Farah, explaining why her husband divorced her when she was pregnant with their second child.
Source: IOL News
Although society’s attitude towards TB is slowly changing, one thing remains a challenge among in communities – the stigma.
Many Mauritanian women and their families are now stipulating the one-wife as a prerequisite before marriage, but religious scholars have condemned it as a violation to Islamic teaching.
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Women's groups in Sierra Leone are robustly pushing the government to establish laws to increase the representation of women in public life. And young women are joining in, too.
The Nigerian Court of Appeal will in October make a ruling that could determine whether a disputed property ownership should be resolved by Sharia Law or according to the new constitution.
President Paul Kagame has called upon the East African Community (EAC) member states to invest in programmes and institutions that improve the livelihoods and incomes of women, if they are to succeed in empowering them.