Source: Leadership
SourceWhile the latest census by the South African Business Women’s Association (BWA) indicates that women are still hugely under-represented in the ranks of executive managers and directors of companies compared to their proportion of the total population, a red-hot debate has broken out in Germany about the possible introduction of a quota-system for women in that country.
Source: United Nations Radio
Female genital mutilation has no health benefit and violates the human rights of girls and women.That's what the World Health Organization (WHO) is stressing on the eve of the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, observed on February 6.
Source: UN Women
Statement by Ms. Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Women, to the Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women and WFP, 4 February 2011 – Item 2: Mainstreaming gender through the work of the agencies and envisaged collaboration with UN Women.
Source: World Health Orgnaisation
The International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation is observed each year to raise awareness about this practice. Female genital mutilation of any type has been recognized as a harmful practice and violation of the human rights of girls and women.
Source: UNFPA
Female genital mutilation/cutting has been illegal in Senegal since 1999. But that didn’t stop Dialyma Cisse‘s paternal grandmother from having her cut, against the wishes of the young girl and her parents.
Source: The Liberian Journal
Six years into her historic Presidency as the 1st democratically elected woman Head of State of an African country, the euphoria which greeted the event in 2005, is still well alive in Liberia and around the world. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has weathered
Source: V-Day
V-Day and the Fondation Panzi (DRC), with support from UNICEF, announce today the opening of City of Joy, a revolutionary new community for women survivors of gender violence in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Source: Coastweek
Michelle Bachelet'S organization would be working on women equality and empowerment, economic empowerment, end violence against women and women's physical security
Source: AllAfrica
Tough measures to tackle gender-based violence are more important to South African women than government distribution of free sanitary pads, argues Glenda Muzenda.
Source: World Food Programme
A group of businesswomen in the Gbumbgum region of northeastern Ghana has found a route out of poverty through a product which their community badly needs—iodated salt. Iodine deficiency is rampant in Gbumbgum, where the swollen necks of people suffering from goitre are a common sight.
Source: United Nations Office On Drugs And Crimes
The first steps toward the establishment of a UN-led 'Small Grants Facility' for victims of human trafficking were taken today in a move aimed at strengthening on-the-ground assistance to survivors of this brutal crime. A public call will be made over the coming months through the UNODC website.
Source: The Zimbabwe Telegraph
Africa’s economic independence aspirations require more women participants to be involved in business ownership and entrepreneurship. Normally innovation drives entrepreneurship which starts first with the vision then the mission which leads to the creation of a business.
Source: The Inquirer
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has told her colleagues attending the African Union Summit that as they move into the 21st century it is necessary to make those "hard choices" needed to control their destiny and emancipate their people from the "shackles of domination and poverty."
Source: The Botswana Gazette
The debate over whether abortion should be allowed on-demand or not appears to be far from over. While some organizations and prominent individuals aggressively call for its legalization, others defend the status quo on moral grounds.
Source: BYKYAMASR
Days of calm were ripped apart on Wednesday in Egypt as the government of President Hosni Mubarak sent in plain clothed “thugs” to throw stones and attack peaceful demonstrators calling for his removal from power. The violence comes after United States President Barack Obama called for a peaceful transition of power in the country amidst 9 days of nationwide protests.
Source: All Africa
The PDP Presidential primaries have come and gone, leaving a question on the lips of many Nigerians if the participation of Nigerian women in politics is just mere lip service.
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation
On the final day of the two-day African Union (AU) Summit taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for greater efforts to reduce sexual violence, particularly during armed conflicts, Ezega.com reports (Barea, 1/31).
Source: UN News Center
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the cooperation between the African Union (AU) and the United Nations, particularly on peace and security issues in Sudan, Somalia and Côte d’Ivoire.
Source: MSF
When 600 women and children arrive suddenly and set up camp next to a town in northern Congo, an alert signal flashes in your brain,” says Azaad Alocco, MSF project coordinator in the town of Niangara, north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Source: MSF
The international emergency medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided specialised care to 53 women, men and children who were raped in a series of incidents that occurred between 19th January and 21st January in South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).