Source: The Eagle Online
Considering Africa’s strong cultural and belief system, which downplays the position of women in social, political and economic development and the current situation, in the last one decade, significant progress has been recorded in creating equal opportunities for female gender in Africa. In communities across Africa, the contribution of women to economic development and political transformation is bogus and indispensable.
Source: IOL
Cape Town - The on-going litany of rapes and murders of women and girls keeps the spotlight on South Africa's shocking culture of rape and gender-based violence.
Source: The Ethopian Herald
The Oromo People's Democratic Organization (OPDO) Women League Tuesday held its 3rd conference focusing on the need for strengthening the ongoing efforts to ensure women participation and benefit from the developmental activities through addressing good governance and rent seeking problems on Tuesday in Adama.
Source: Daily Observer
Naomi Tulay-Solanke, the Founder and Executive Director of Community Health Initiative (CHI), a non-governmental organization that is providing healthcare and social services in underprivileged and slum communities in Liberia, recently came up with a good idea to keep girls in school during their menstruation period.
Source: The New Times
The Minister for Gender and Family Promotion, Dr Diane Gashumba, has called for more funding to women entrepreneurs.
Source: UN Women
At the “A Call to Action for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment” conference at UN Headquarters in New York on 17 May, experts and advocates highlighted solutions to address the existing barriers in advancing equality for women and girls, followed by an evening gala with a performance by Jewel.
Source: Thomson Reuters
Campaigners are finding more and more holes in official data to track where and which women need help.
Source: The New Times
Zeinab Badawi is a celebrated journalist and senior news anchor.
Source: Media Max Network
Call them warriors, trailblazers or pacesetters; these are some of Africa’s most inspirational women spearheading change. Their names do not remain esteemed by virtue of their accrued wealth but due to their social empowerment initiatives rousing transformation and enriching lives.
Source: The Cable
Health experts say Sayana Press, self-injectable contraceptives, currently being tested in Uganda and Senegal could revolutionise lives of women, particularly in rural Africa.
Source: News Deeply
When Theresa Kachindamoto got a call from the chiefs of Malawi’s Dedza district telling her she had to come home to rule over almost a million people, she was reluctant.
Source:News Deeply
In Togo, thousands of young girls trafficked from villages are living in poverty on the streets of Lome. Many of them have escaped a life of domestic servitude, sex work or other forms of manual labor, after being taken from their homes to neighboring countries such as Nigeria, facilitated by traffickers known as ogas – often older female relatives or family friends.
Source: News Deeply
When, in June 2012, the wife of al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri called on Muslim mothers to raise their children to support violent extremism, Somali women’s groups issued a public condemnation.
Source: SouthAfrica.info
Pinky Zungu would not have minded working as a pilot on a ship until the day she retired. But she was given what she describes as a more exhilarating position at Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA): Zungu is the first black female to be appointed the deputy harbour master: nautical at the Port of Durban.
Source:ISS Africa
A famous maxim of uncertain origin defines insanity as doing the same thing repeatedly, but expecting different results. In her opening statement at the United Nations (UN) High-Level Thematic Debate on Peace and Security, Nobel Peace laureate Leymah Gbowee used this definition to describe challenges faced by UN engagements in peace operations and peacebuilding.
Source:The Herald
Former Cabinet Minister Cde Webster Shamu was yesterday named in Parliament as the proprietor of a downtown strip tease joint that was allegedly used as a recruitment point in the trafficking of 150 women to Kuwait and other countries in the Middle East.
Source:Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle has learned that South Africa's Public Protector, who took on President Jacob Zuma over the use of taxpayers' money to upgrade his home, will be awarded the prestigious prize for her commitment to fighting corruption.
Source:The New Times (Kigali)
Cultural stigma and laxity to acknowledge gender mainstreaming efforts are some of the challenges still hampering Government's pursuit of gender equality, stakeholders in gender promotion have heard.
Source:The New Times (Kigali)
Female sex workers, being among the highest risk groups for contracting HIV, are priority segment of the population in the ongoing national efforts to fight the virus.
Source:VanGuard
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a three-year $80 million commitment to close the gender data gap and accelerate progress for women and girls around the world.