Source: Open Democracy
Last month the results of a global survey on women living with HIV were published. The survey was designed and conducted by women, and commissioned by the World Health Organisation. Will the findings be acted upon?
Source: The Guardian
Advocacy group Equality Now says that despite progress many discriminatory laws remain 20 years after a call to repeal them – and more are being passed.
Source: Sun Star
Women advocates will use dance as a vehicle to raise global awareness on violence against women when they hold the One Billion Rising Revolution (OBR Revolution) today, February 14, at Rizal Park in Manila.
Source: IT Web Africa
Women being under-represented in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector has long been discussed and debated.
Why are there not enough women in the ICT sector? What must be done to get more women in ICT? Are there enough women who occupy decision making roles within the sector, are only some of the questions.
Source: Human Rights Watch
Sudanese army forces raped more than 200 women and girls in an organized attack on the north Darfur town of Tabit in October 2014, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) should take urgent steps to protect civilians in the town from further abuses.
Source: The Economist
A couple of days ago, a senior African cleric was holding forth on the need to combine religious instruction with, in the broadest sense, sex education. Both at home and at school, declared Archbishop Henri Isingoma, boys must be taught about the higher purpose of sex as "the way God wanted to make the human race continue."
Source: Daily Trust
Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof. Chidi Odinkalu has called on government to establish forensic services department in institutions of learning to provide the police with analytical service for investigating sexual offences and solving other crimes.
Source: Reuters
In a remote, deeply traditional corner of northern Tanzania, growing numbers of girls are running away from home to escape genital mutilation carried out during mass initiations.
Source: THISDAY Live
The maiden edition of the Most Valuable Governor's Wife Award 2014 [MVGWA] that was held at the Sheraton Hotel, Abuja has come to promote democracy as beneficiaries voted for the award winning governors' wives in their states and across the country.
Source: The Zimbabwean
During 2015, we shall take our continental programme of gender equality and women's empowerment to a higher level: by ensuring that women are at the table in conflict resolution and peace building by increasing the representation of women in public life; through the economic empowerment and financial inclusion of women; and by modernizing agriculture, and addressing women's access to land, technology, markets, infrastructure, and capital...
Source:allAfrica
Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women, Susan Shabangu, has asked learners and teachers at Glendale Secondary School to be counted in the fight to eradicate violence against women and children.
Source: Global Post
Authorities in Tanzania and their development partners on Tuesday signed a new commitment aimed at intensifying efforts to end female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage in the country.
Source: Daily Independent
Following the realisation that only a few young women between the ages of 18 to 35, participate actively in politics, a non-governmental group, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) last weekend organised a training on leadership for adolescent girls and women to further build their capacity in meeting the yearnings and aspirations of the times.
Source: LA Times
Some men have threatened to place a black magic curse on her. One came to her door with a machete threatening to kill her. Others have advised her husband to beat her to instill discipline, offering to do the job themselves if he was too softhearted.
It's not easy being Peninnah Tombo, a female rights activist in a tribe where the words "female" and "rights" rarely coincide.
Source: allAfrica
President Beji Caid Essebsi received, Tuesday, a delegation of the Tunisian Association "Women and Leadership" led by its Chairwoman Sana Ghenima.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
In a remote, deeply traditional corner of northern Tanzania, growing numbers of girls are running away from home to escape genital mutilation carried out during mass initiations.
In the Tarime district of Mara region, bordering Kenya, the number of girls who fled these illegal rituals at the end of last year doubled to 634 from 312 the year before, according to girls' rights campaigners.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail
NEW Partnership Africa's Development (NEPAD) Director of Programme Implementation and Coordination Estherine Fotabong has noted that only smart policies and economics will put women farmers at the centre of Africa's development.
Source: Foreign Policy
Fifteen years ago, the U.N. enshrined the idea that equality between men and women is inextricably linked with peace. It's time to act on that.
Source: Daily Trust
The list keeps growing. And it does appear it will not decline anytime soon. Women of clout and candour are taking up every available space in Lagos State judiciary and they seem so restless about it. In this report, Daily Trust takes a look at how the Lagos State judiciary now wears feminine garb in a way that challenges status quo in other states of the federation.
Source: The Daily Observer
The Girls Agenda, a community-based youth association on Sunday held a day long forum on sexual violence against women, at the Regional Education Directorate (region two) in Brikama, West Coast Region.