“It doesn’t matter whether you are pregnant or not – whether you are sick or not – you have to sit and work,” Po Pov told my colleague about her job in a Cambodian garment factory. “If you take a break, the work piles up on the machine and the supervisor will come and shout. And if a pregnant worker is seen as working ‘slowly,’ her contract won’t be renewed.”
International leaders are convening at United Nations Headquarters, New York, to discuss the critical issue of migration and human mobility, a megatrend that is reshaping the global landscape.
The Lagos State Government wednesday said plans had been firmed up to convene a security summit where a comprehensive strategy and homegrown solutions would be developed by critical stakeholders to myriads of security challenges confronting the state such as cultism, drug abuse, gender-based crimes, arms proliferation, among others.
myPlan, an app that provides a personalised safety plan, connecting women in abusive relationships to local helplines, shelters and counsellors without being "judged or stigmatised", will be available in some African countries next year.
Ado Ekiti — Ekiti State Office of the Public Defender has handled no fewer than 400 cases of gender-based violence since its creation in 2015. The Executive Secretary in Office of the Public Defender, Mrs. Taiwo
The Seychelles' capital Victoria has been chosen to host the African forum for the emancipation of women leadership in Africa in a decision made at a three-day event that took place in the island nation recently.
The government has expressed disappointment with its track record of transforming the country after a World Bank report showed that inequality has deepened since the dawn of democracy, with the country being the most unequal society.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
A study of hair samples from 1,000 women across 25 countries found more than 40 percent had unsafe mercury levels.
Access to information and services for contraception and birth spacing are critical to maternal and child health programming. It is no surprise then, that IDRC is supporting research in sub-Saharan Africa to investigate emerging questions and to propose ways to improve the reproductive health of women and adolescents.
Zimbabwe's new Constitution promulgated into law in 2013 brought many robust changes that were achieved through wide consultative forums where millions of people participated throughout Zimbabwe.
But will South Africa be able to get this figure down further -- in time to achieve its sustainable development goal in 2030?
London — Her Excellency Mrs Toyin Ojora Saraki Wife of the Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Founder-President, Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA) Inaugural Global Goodwill Ambassador, International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)
The 5th Annual Commonwealth Africa Summit
“I was sold more than once,” Resalah* told UNFPA. A member of the Yazidi minority, she was abducted by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS or Da’esh), traded as property and subjected to relentless abuse. Though she eventually escaped, the experience stayed with her. “I tried to commit suicide more than once,” she said.
Education is so much more than an opportunity to go to school; it is an opportunity to determine one’s future, to establish a voice within and outside of one’s community, and to dream beyond the limits of one’s circumstances.
More than 2 million people across Mozambique, especially in the southern and central regions, have been affected by severe drought since 2015.
Water and sanitation is a basic human right for all. Yet, water scarcity affects more than 40 per cent of the global population (UN Report on Clean Water and Sanitation). Unfortunately, in countries like South Sudan, although completely preventable, water and sanitation-related diseases are among the top killers of children under five.
Source: UN News
“Anglophone Cameroonians began fleeing violence in October 2017 and continue to pour into Nigeria’s Cross River, Taraba, Benue and Akwa-Ibom states,” Aikaterini Kitidi, spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees(UNHCR), said at the regular briefing in Geneva.
During day two of the 62nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the South African Parliamentary delegation participated in a wide range of discussions, including one titled "Parliaments deliver for rural women and girls," organised by the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women.
Dar es Salaam — Tanzania Gender Network Programme (TGNP) has launched an online programme to empower young women in leadership.
LandNet, a non governmental organization (NGO) affiliated in issues of land governance, has hailed government for the enactment of Land Act, a Law it observed will safeguard and promote the welfare and dignity of women and other marginalized members of the society.