Source: Council on Foreign Relations
Nigeria has been identified as one of eleven emerging economies with high growth potential for the coming decades. And yet, Nigeria is far from achieving the World Bank’s goal of universal financial access by 2020, with women comprising the majority of Nigeria’s “unbanked.” Only one-third of Nigerian women own a bank account, compared with more than half of Nigerian men, a stubborn gender gap that has grown, not shrunk, in recent years, from 7 percent in 2011 to 21 percent in 2014.
Source: Morocco World News
Rabat – Outspoken member of the Saudi royal family Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has urged an end to the ban on women driving in his country in a statement on his official Twitter account.
Source: CNN
The number of new HIV infections 'is not declining' and young women the world over are still at risk.
Women serving in security organs in more than thirty countries in Africa have pledged to keep up efforts against gender-based violence (GBV) by meeting more often to share their experiences and monitoring violence against women and girls more closely in their countries.
The Department of Social Development has launched the National Emergency Response Team (NERT) to provide psycho-social support to victims affected by gender-based violence.
The National Paralympics Committee (NPC) president Celestin Nzeyimana has said that the body will continue to empower women with disability through sports.
Experts in healthcare and Information Communication Technology have called upon innovators to create solutions that improve access, planning, availability and quality of sexual and reproductive health information and services.
Source: Daily News
The government yesterday came under spotlight when former Speaker of the National Assembly pushed the authority to fast track repeal of the Marriage Act-1971 and Inheritance Law in order to enhance justice and protection to women and girls in their rights.
Source: allAfrica
Experts will discuss issues ranging from research to policy into action toward ending unsafe abortion in Africa
Source: euronews
Somalia is a patriarchal society which has never had a female leader until recently when two women took a step to make that dream a reality.
Source: The Guardian
For the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, state TV aired a lesson in applying concealer to facial bruises. Why did anyone think this was a good idea?
Source: Nyasa Times
The Malawi National Assembly has passed a Land Amendment Bill that seeks to empower not only the poor, but also women who struggle to access land due to cultural issues.
Source: Vanguard
ABUJA – A non governmental organisation, NGO, the Educating Nigerian Girls in New Enterprise, ENGINE, program has concluded arrangements to organise a 1,000 men walk aimed to raise awareness and drive to end violence against women and girls.
On a chilly Wednesday morning, walking into the quiet spacious Resilience Innovation Lab (RILab) on the first floor of Resilient Africa Network (RAN) above Kololo Airstrip, one gets the feeling that they are intruding on great minds thinking up innovations that will propel us into middle income status.
In a move to assist various stakeholders in the country to take appropriate action in eradicating violence against women and children, the government expects to launch a national Action Plan (2017-2022) in December to eliminate violence in the country.
Source: News24Wire
President Jacob Zuma says the majority of violence experienced by women and children is at the hands of men known to them.
The United Nation Children Fund (UNICEF) at the weekend revealed that over 0.4 to 0.8million women suffer from obstetric fistula (OF) in Nigeria, ranking the country as highest prevalence of Obstetric Fistula in the world.
Anatolie Uzayisenga, a teacher at Bisate Primary School in Kinigi Sector, Musanze District, gave birth to a baby boy one year ago. Six weeks after delivery she had a tough choice to make; forego 80 per cent of her pay and stay with her newborn baby or return to work.
Source: allAfrica
Nairobi — Consider this. According to the 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey of Kenya, 4 out of every 10 Kenyan women undergo some form of violence, whether physical or sexual. This figure is staggering and should compel us to pause and reflect.
Source: R News
In South Africa one out of every six woman is regularly assaulted by their partner and in at least 46 per cent of cases, the men involved also abuse the children living with the woman, says Dr Lerato Dikobe-Kalane, PsychMG (Psychiatry Management Group) board member.