Source: Tanzania Daily News
Tanzania Women Parliamentary Group (TWPG) has condemned the use of abusive language and mockery in Parliament last week that humbled and humiliated the dignity of women.
Source: Daily Trust
A 17-year-old girl, Nafisa Muhammed, was excited when she received the gift she least expected recently.
Source: UN Women News
After spending four years serving UN Women in Cape Verde, Programme Officer Maritza Rosabal 59, has been appointed as the country’s new Minister of Education, Family and Social Inclusion.
Source: Thomson Reuters
YAKO, Burkina Faso, May 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Inès Sanso was 15 years old, her family decided she was to marry a man three times her age in Yako, a small town in the rural north of Burkina Faso.
Source: Thomson Reuters
DUBAI, May 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - African women in politics need financial support from the West to help them forge ahead rather than leadership training, Malawi's former president Joyce Banda said on Sunday, adding that advice she had received in the past had backfired.
Source: UN Sierra Leone
The significance of incorporating gender perspectives in RSLAF work cannot be over emphasized, Brigadier General Kestoria Kabia A ten day training for 40 RSLAF (the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces) officers drawn from all formations and units across the armed forces has commenced in Freetown on 4 May 2016.
Source: This Day
From hawking commonplace foodstuff in her village, she became a house help for an opportunity to attend secondary school.
Source: Nigeria Today
This year’s European Union (EU) Day celebrations have been dedicated by the regional organisation to protecting the rights of African women, its Ambassador and Head of delegation to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Mr. Michael Arrion disclosed yesterday.
Source: The Guardian
On a cold and wet morning, a large group of protesters – many of them bare- breasted – gathered to protest on the Rhodes university campus in Grahamstown, South Africa.
Source: St. Johns Edu
At 17 years old, two Maryland high school students took action against the cycle of poverty that traps many young people in their families’ hometown of Bali Nyonga, Cameroon.
Source: allAfrica
As internet access increases across Africa, it is giving our citizens new development opportunities and freedom of expression. But there’s a dark side to this transformation. Trolling, hacking, spamming and online harassment are wreaking havoc on the psyches of our women and girls, effectively silencing us.
Source: Daily Mail
Amnesty International has given its top 2016 human rights award to Grammy Award-winning musician Angélique Kidjo and to three African youth activist movements for their work standing up to injustice, the organisation announced on Wednesday.
Source: Amnesty International
The statistics tell a sobering tale. Burkina Faso has the 7th highest rate of child marriage in the world.
Source: Thomson Reuters
LONDON, May 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Amnesty International has given its top 2016 human rights award to Grammy Award-winning musician Angélique Kidjo and to three African youth activist movements for their work standing up to injustice, the organisation announced on Wednesday.
Source: Front Page Africa
Kakata — The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) has launched the fourth round of its Economic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (EPAG) Project, highlighting the inclusion of boys.
Source: Thomson Reuters
Dakar — Investing in an "army of midwives" across Nigeria will cut the number of stillbirths and women dying during or after giving birth, a leading women's rights activist said ahead of the West African nation's first global conference on midwifery.
Source: New Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) will this year give special recognition to women in the media and arts industry.
Source: Botswana Daily News
Gaborone — Minister of Infrastructure, Science and Technology, Mr Nonofo Molefhi, says government is committed to empowerment of girls and women through extensive use of ICTs.
Source: UN Women
From where I stand: Tebogo Mashego
Source: Times of Zambia
PAYMENT of dowry (referred to as Lobola) by a man who wants to marry a woman in most African societies, is one of the things that constitutes marriage under customary law.