Source: AllAfrica
By Melinda Gates and Graça Machel
Source: The Guardian
Hashtag activism has helped to propel women’s rights to the forefront of political agendas, bringing attention to issues often under-reported by mainstream media panellists have told an event at the UN in New York.
Source:IRIN Africa
Pregnant and breastfeeding women are the demographic group most at risk of malnutrition in South Sudan after children, making up some 12 percent of all those on supplementary feeding programmes.
Source:AllAfrica
"Sometimes there is rain, but it is not well distributed. We lack good quality seed, and termites eat our plants." These are, in the words of Binta Ndao, a Senegalese farmer and mother of seven, some of the challenges faced by subsistence farmers in Eastern Senegal. An innovative resilience-building initiative implemented by WFP and Oxfam America is helping farmers like her break out of chronic food insecurity.
Source: AllAfrica
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa exacerbated violence against women and rolled back access to reproductive healthcare in the region, ministers from Guinea and Liberia said on Wednesday.
Source:ThisDayLive
Abimbola Akosile examines the calls for women empowerment among other issues at the fifty-ninth session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women currently taking place in New York, USA.
Source: Bernama
UNITED NATIONS -- South African Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has slammed the political declaration adopted at the start of this year's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), arguing that it makes very little reference to women's human rights while completely excluding language on sexual and reproductive health.
Source: GenderLinks
If you randomly pick a person on the street in a remote part of any African country and ask them what they know about women's rights, whatever the tone of voice - angry or excited, they are likely to mention "Beijingwake to the challenge: African women's leadership at Beijing+20"
Source: Citifmonline
Ghanaians are the becoming healthier, better educated, more politically enfranchised and freer to express their views than any other African nation, a new report released by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) has found.
Source: AFKinsider
Private equity financing is not easy to come by, even in a market as hot as Africa. The competition for funding is fierce, and the way the numbers play out is part of the bottom line. Businesses need to demonstrate not only success to date, but a strong potential for growth, expansion, and of course exit potential.
Source: The Guardian
Nimalka Fernando was called a sex worker and a traitor for campaigning for peace in war-torn Sri Lanka. A photo of her head was pasted on to a naked women’s body and published. People were encouraged to stone or kill her.
Source: Daily Independent
A near balanced inclusion in governance awaits Nigerian women as soon as President Jonathan is sworn into office for a second term as the first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan has assured of a review of the current 35 per cent affirmative action to 45 per cent in the next administration.
Source: SABC
The ninth parliament of Lesotho has elected Ntlhoi Motsamai as Speaker of the National Assembly.
Source: UN News Centre
The greater participation of women and girls in sports can help lift their involvement in society, fight gender stereotypes and accelerate progress towards gender parity, the head of the United Nations entity for gender equality and women's empowerment declared today.
Source: GhanaWeb
Women organisers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the Convention People's Party (CPP) are advocating reforms to their party constitutions to allow for more women to seek political office.
Source: IPS News
Governments must do more to address the impacts of forced disappearances of women, according to an international justice report released Monday.
Source: Cameroon Tribune
A new curriculum under the patronage of Cameroonian's First Lady will be launched soon by IAI Cameroon.
Source: Times Live
If we depart from Western feminist ideals and think about African women and their agency, the doek doesn't have to be seen as a symbol of oppression, says Cape Town performance artist Sindi Mkaza-Siboto.
Source: UN News Centre
Twenty years ago in Beijing, countries signed on to a comprehensive global blueprint for gender equality and women's empowerment, and achieving that goal remains "humanity's biggest project," according to senior United Nations official Lakshmi Puri.
Source: Malawi News Agency
Minister of Health Dr Jean Kalilani has encouraged women in Nkhotakota to utilise the Chipatala Cha Pa Foni (CCPF) concept.