Source: New York Times
I am a 47-year-old Egyptian woman. And I am among the fortunate few of my countrywomen whose genitals have not been cut in the name of "purity" and the control of our sexuality.
Source: The News
The visiting Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation has said violence against Liberian women and girls must stop. Madam Isabela Lovren said Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) against women and girls is a huge challenge that must be addressed by the Liberian government and partners.
Source: The Star
On Tuesday in Nairobi, President Uhuru Kenyatta,a passionate advocate for the advancement of youth and empowerment of young people, presided over the launch of the Global All In! Campaign, a partnership aimed at consolidating efforts against HIV-Aids among adolescents.
Source: RH Reality Check
Women in Africa have a clear right to abortion—on paper, that is. In 2003, the African Union adopted the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. In doing so, its charter became the only human rights treaty in the world to explicitly outline the right to abortion care. However, although 54 member states of the African Union adopted the protocol and 36 have ratified it, the majority of these governments have done very little to enact reproductive health-care provisions in practice.
Source: The Herald
This is the fifth in a series of articles analysing regional progress on gender equality and women's empowerment. The Sadc Gender Protocol sought to ensure equal participation among women and men in productive resources and employment by 2015. To this end, Sadc member states committed to ensure equal participation, of women and men, in policy formulation and implementation of economic policies. They also pledged to ensure gender sensitive and responsive budgeting at the micro and macro levels, including tracking, monitoring and evaluation.
Source: Sudan Vision Daily
UN Women's South Africa Multi-Country Office has officially launched its Civil Society Advisory Group, which will use its expertise to advise UN Women on its work in South Africa.
Source: UN Women
Paramount Chief Kyungu of Malawi, an influential cultural leader; Ron Archer, a renowned transformative leadership coach from the United States of America; and Gilberto Macuacua, a media personality in Mozambique, who is also a member of the UN Women Regional Civil Society Group (RCSAG), have signed on as male supporters of UN Women's HeForShe campaign, calling on other men to follow suit.
Source: New York Times
By the time Sgt. Madot Dagbinza showed the photographer Michael Christopher Brown a handful of snapshots, she'd been fighting with the 42nd Commando Battalion of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo for four years.
Source: RH Reality Check
Women in Africa have a clear right to abortion—on paper, that is. In 2003, the African Union adopted the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.
Source: AgWired
Olivia Narciso Pedro, a lecturer and researcher at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique is one of 70 outstanding African women agricultural scientists to have been awarded a 2015 fellowship from African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD).
Source: Humanosphere
All laws in the world discriminating against women were supposed to be wiped out by 2005. Ten years later, numerous countries still have laws that restrict equality between men and women. Many of the 189 government that agreed to ending gender inequality at the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women 20 years ago are not living up to their promises, says the women's group Equality Now.
Source: Ventures
Nigeria-born Ghanaian software engineer Farida Bedwei may be the Definition of a Miracle, as her vaguely autobiographical novel suggests, but her success is a testament to hard work and resolve. With sheer determination and belief, the 36-year-old, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of one and was homeschooled by her mother until she was 12, has risen to become one of the most influential women in financial technology in Africa. Cerebral palsy is a neurological disorder that causes physical disability, mainly in the areas of body movement. Although it does not obstruct the ability to learn, it is not curable.
Source: Global Post
Africa's scientific conference kicked off in Nairobi on Wednesday with Kenya calling on the continent to embrace information technology (IT) to solve myriad problems in the health sector.
Source: Lancashire Telegraph
TODAY marks the second anniversary of the funeral of South African model Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot dead by her Paralympic athlete boyfriend Oscar Pistorius.
Source:AllAfrica
A rash of sex discriminatory laws - including the legalisation of polygamy, marital rape, abduction and the justification of violence against women - remains in statute books around the world.
Source: AllAfrica
This is the fifth in a series of articles analysing regional progress on gender equality and women's empowerment. The Sadc Gender Protocol sought to ensure equal participation among women and men in productive resources and employment by 2015.
Source: pride source.com
I had the opportunity to attend the 27th National Conference on LGBTQ Equality: Creating Change in Denver, Colorado with the staff at LGBT Detroit from Feb. 4-8. Creating Change brings together thousands of activists, artists, scholars, allies and enthusiasts to share and discover together.
Source: New Vision
A movement dubbed HeforShe, aimed at engaging men and boys to support women's course of empowerment, is to be launched by government.
This was revealed by UN Women gender and humanitarian specialist, Claire Hawkins in Kampala.
Source: Jadaliyya
Andrea Khalil, editor, Gender, Women, and the Arab Spring. London and New York: Routledge, 2015.
[Editors' Note: This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of North African Studies 19.2 (2014).
Source: allAfrica
Girls'Agenda, a community based organisation (CBO), with funding from the Network Against Gender, observed Valentine Day celebration by organising a community outreach forum on Sexual Violence on the 14thFebruary, 2015 at Brikama Mansaringsu.