Source: Malawi News Agency
The First Lady, Madam Gertrude Mutharika on Monday said she was committed to helping the girl child overcome obstacles in pursuit of her education.
Source: The Guardian
Protest movement seeks to end Saudi Arabia law requiring women have permission of a male guardian to travel, marry or do other fundamental tasks.
SOURCE: allAfrica
The health imperative for women to be screened for breast and cervical cancers was the main focus of the message of the Minister of Health and Quality of Life, Mr Anil Gayan, yesterday at Sir Harilal Vaghjee Memorial Hall in Port Louis, in the context of the 'free breast and cervical cancers screening for female public officers' initiative.
Source: The New Times
Members of the European Parliament’s committee on women’s rights and gender equality are currently in the country on a four-day visit. They are engaging with their counterparts of the Rwandan Parliament on the best practices in the promotion of the rights of women and gender equality.
Source: allAfrica
Kampala — Zimba Women, a women-led IT service provider, has organised a summit that aims at educating women on how to use technology in their daily business operations.
Source: allAfrica
"They strip and beat us naked, if they want to see our bodies then we are going to march to their offices naked so that they really see us and we see what's next because we are tired of this abuse."
Source: The Citizen
Dar es Salaam — Founder and executive director of Msichana Initiative Rebeca Gyumi, has won the United Nations Children Emergency Fund (Unicef)'s social change award for fighting child marriages in the country.
Source: allAfrica
Kampala — The United Nations child-at-school youth ambassadors have started a youth-for-gender-equality and girl-at-school campaign to push governments around the world to give teenage girls priority in education.
Source: The Guardian
Some 1,800 activists from radically different backgrounds at the Association for Women’s Rights in Development conference in Brazil tried to find common ground at a moment in history when women’s rights are being chipped away.
Source: DW
UN human rights experts say women have suffered more violence than anyone else in South Sudan. The UN's refugee agency also announced that there are now over one million South Sudanese refugees in neighboring countries.
Source: NewsDeeply
Lupus, an autoimmune condition that affects nine times more women than men, was considered to be rare in Africa. Now health experts are discovering that insufficient resources and lack of awareness were masking a significant prevalence on the continent.
Source: Times of India
Despite maternal mortality rate coming down to half worldwide since 1990, India accounts for 15 per cent of such casualties during pregnancy and childbirth with 45,000 maternal deaths in 2015, according to a new global report by Lancet which points out international as well as national disparities in maternal healthcare services.
Source: New Vision
The report also indicates that in Uganda, 27% of the plots and 20% of all cultivated land is under sole management of women hence the remaining 73% and 80% of all cultivated land is either managed jointly by women and men or by men.
Source: The Citizen
Dlamini-Zuma says she finds it ‘disheartening’ that incidences of sexual violence against women and girls are still being perpetrated as a weapon of war.
African Union Commission (AUC) chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has called for the “silencing of the guns” in Africa as the world commemorates International Day of Peace.
Source: africanews
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, says for the year 2016, it has received 40% of the $11 million it needs for humanitarian support in northeast Nigeria.
Source: Daily News Tanzania
NOTHING makes the male population defensive or scared than the mention of ‘women rights’ ‘gender equality,’ or male chauvinism.
Source: allAfrica
Gaborone — British High Commissioner to Botswana, Ms Katy Ransome, says it is important to have more women in politics because they bring different perspective on issues and things that they discuss.
Source: The New Times
President Paul Kagame yesterday participated in a high-level meeting showcasing the Sahel women empowerment and demographic dividend initiative themed: ‘Strengthening partnership to accelerate Africa’s demographic dividend.’
Source: Women’s Agenda
Imagine being told you couldn’t own something because you’re a woman. Being kicked from your land and your home for not being a man.
Progress has been patchy and authors warn against poor quality care with rising rates of over-medicalisation, too few trained staff or basic resources in many regions.