Source: Forward
Any woman who has spent time in Arab countries was likely to have been particularly impressed by the strong presence of women in the Egypt’s Tahrir Square protests. Whether it is Cairo or any other Arab city, walking around unaccompanied in public is not always a comfortable experience.
Source: AllAfrica
With one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, limited political and legal resources for women, elevated rates of forced marriage, and female genital mutilation, the overall situation for women in Ethiopia is one of the most precarious in the world.
Source: Scoop World
Most of us believe that government is there to meet our personal needs, but our expectations are never met. Hence the gap between the poor and the rich has become so enormous, and there is so much waste by those who are considered privileged.
Source: AllAfrica
Pro-Hope International with PHIN the Gambia held a day's sensitization of women in the grassroots level at the Catholic Relief Services at Kanifing on 12th February 2010.
Source: New Era
Despite the high level of knowledge about modes of HIV transmission and prevention, many Namibian women lack control over their own sexuality.
Source: BuaNews
South Africa's health care system will receive a much-needed boost in 2011, with the government planning to train more doctors and nurses, revitalise the country's nursing colleges, step up HIV/Aids prevention, and push towards finalising the new National Health Insurance scheme.
Source: Ghana News Agency
Society for Women Against AIDS in Africa (SWAA) -Ghana, an advocacy group, on Tuesday organised a medical screening on HIV and AIDS for 400 female porters (kayayee) drawn from the major markets in Accra.
Source: UN News Center
The recruitment and use of children by armed forces and other armed groups in Chad persists, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report, while noting that reduced tensions last year enabled many children to leave such groups.
Source: The Nigerian Observer
President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the immediate enlistment and training of female regular combatant commission officers into the Nigerian armed forces.
Source: WOMENSENEWS
low-cost ultrasound system is on its way to Uganda in early summer. Produced by students at the University of Washington, it's intended to help midwives battle the high death rate in the country's rural areas.
Source: Enough Project at the Center for American Progress
With the triumphant success of the South Sudan referendum, the transitioning state is looking ahead toward consultations regarding the new constitution and government. Although this transitional phase poses major challenges, it also holds an unparalleled window of opportunity for marginalized groups to push for inclusive rights and representation—especially women.
Source: Africa Review
Boys and girls should not sit in the same classroom, radical Islamist group Al-Shabaab has ordered.
Cote d'Ivoire: Political Crisis in Côte d’Ivoire: The Impact on Women and Women’s Rights Organizatio
Source: AWID
Côte d’Ivoire has been in a political impasse since the declaration of contested results of a second round of presidential elections held in November 2010. Since both candidates claimed victory and have been sworn in, the country has two presidents and two governments.
Source: Mmegi Online
Media in Southern Africa still has a long way to go towards gender sensitive reporting in newsrooms, a study by Gender Links has revealed.
Source: IPS
"The agenda for women’s rights and empowerment in each country must be supported by the political leadership," says Norah Matovu-Winyi, Executive Director, African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET).
Source: Afrique en Ligne
Dakar, Senegal - African female media practitioners and those in the civil society here Thursday called on governments in the continent to enforce the texts, conventions and protocols they signed on the protection of women's rights. Such rights protection treaty included the African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights on the rights of women. It was adopted in 2003 during the African Union (AU) Summit in Maputo, Mozambique, to promote and respect women's fundamental rights.
Source: The Guardian
Beneficiaries of the Women Empowerment in Zanzibar (Weza) project have engaged in clove-soap making to fight abject poverty and boost their incomes.
Source: United Nations
In many traditional cultures, women aren't allowed to own or inherit property. Losing a husband through death or divorce can be a guarantee of poverty. But two women in Malawi have defied that fate. Here's their story.
Source: GhanaWeb
Economic Affairs (IEA) on Saturday set in motion efforts to galvanise stakeholder support, to develop a manual on strategies and guidelines to increase the number of women elected to parliament in 2012.
Source: GhanaWeb
Bus-Kwofie, former District Chief Executive (DCE) for Ahanta West District, has underscored the need for both government and political parties to allocate a quota of portfolios to women, to whip up their interest in governance.