Source: News Deeply
There are myriad complex reasons why South Africa has such high rates of gender-based violence. High unemployment rates and poverty have left many men feeling frustrated and powerless, while the nation’s recent past – the armed struggle against apartheid – led to a normalization of violence.
Source: allAfrica
Tarime — Members of child protection teams are undergoing special training aimed at strengthening child protection measures in Tarime District, Mara Region.
Source: The Guardian
Liberia’s president has said Hillary Clinton’s defeat was a missed opportunity for women around the world, as fears grew that Donald Trump’s victory in the US election would damage women’s lives and political hopes far beyond America’s borders.
Source: The Star Kenya
November 2014 will remain etched in the minds of thousands of women and for the most gruesome of reasons.
Source: allAfrica
Some women in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Thursday decried discrimination in Nigeria against women marrying younger men, while seeing nothing wrong in men having much younger wives.
Source: Ghana Business News
The fifth African Union High Level Dialogue on Human Rights is set for November 23 to November 26 at Arusah, United Republic of Tanzania to take stock and reflect on its achievements in the search of a better life for all segments.
Source: News24 Wire
A rights group has called for the immediate lifting of a "deeply discriminatory ban on visibly pregnant girls attending school and taking exams" in Sierra Leone.
Source: Vanguard
To avert the death of approximately one million children and women annually from preventable diseases in Nigeria, stakeholders in child and family health services have called for upward review of budgetary allocation and prompt release of funds for health to ensure improved healthcare services at the primary level.
Source: allAfrica
At least one per cent of the Mozambican state budget should be earmarked for activities focused on gender equality.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"I want to go to Italy because I want to make money. If it is prostitution, I'll do it."
Source: allAfrica
Grace* raised her children in the cramped corridors of Kampala's slums where proximity and necessity make neighbours de facto family members. But everyone looked the other way when her husband started beating her.
Source: npr
Nigeria is deploying 100 female police officers to protect women in displaced persons camps in the state of Borno, after a scathing Human Rights Watch report said officials, including security guards, have "raped and sexually exploited" dozens of women.
Source: Reuters
GADO-BADZERE, Cameroon, Nov 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Alone, hungry and traumatised having watched her parents die in war-torn Central African Republic, 14-year-old Koulsoumi believed the worst was behind her when she was taken in by a family in Cameroon after fleeing across the border last year.
Source: The Guardian
How can women in Nigeria become economically empowered and contribute to the development of the country? Our panel of experts share their thoughts.
Source: The Monitor
The ban on comprehensive sex education in Uganda's schools needs challenging. That Uganda has a ministry of Ethics and Integrity that is entirely engrossed with sexual morality but does not support sexual health education in school is shameful.
Source: Daily Trust
The Benue State Family Planning Advocacy Working Group (BSFPAWG) has said that identified 63 percent unsafe abortions can be prevented with increase in family planning use.
Source: The Citizen
Next week Tanzania is hosting two global meetings that will focus on women, their survival, well-being, and their access to life saving maternal and reproductive health services.
Source: The Standard
Most Zimbabwean girls, especially those in marginalised communities, have big dreams, but they can't build their future because they have always received a wooden spoon from their parents when it comes to education.
Source: The Guardian
Entrepreneurs from around the world gather for a three-day conference looking at how the continent can get creative with the internet.
SOURCE: The Guardian
On Wednesday, hundreds gathered in front of the Johannesburg high court to mark thedeathof Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo, the feminist Aids activist who accused Jacob Zuma of rape. The tribute was organised by theOne in Nine campaign, a group of feminist activists formed a decade earlier to provide solidarity as Kuzwayo testified against Zuma – a family friend and prominent member of the ruling African National Congress – inside the selfsame court.