Source: Global Post
Yvette Raphael left the medical clinic in Midrand, Johannesburg with one thought running through her mind.

Source: Mail&Guardian
Mozambique has passed a law permitting women to terminate unwanted pregnancies under specified conditions without risking punishment, a move hailed by activists in a country where clandestine abortions account for a large number of maternal deaths.

Source: The Guardian
The number of child soldiers in the Central African Republic (CAR) has more than doubled – and possibly quadrupled – since sectarian conflict erupted last year, putting them at risk of long-term psychological damage, Save the Children warns.

Source: BBC News
Many mothers and newborns are dying because of a lack of sanitation, safe water and hygiene while giving birth, leading health experts have warned.

Source: StarAfrica
Malawi has launched a three-year campaign to slash by 15 percent the number of cases of sexual violence against women, girls and children by 2017.

Source: StarAfrica
Malawi has launched a three-year campaign to slash by 15 percent the number of cases of sexual violence against women, girls and children by 2017.

Source: StarAfrica
The British Ambassador, John Dennis met local NGO, Rede Mulher (Women's Network) to discuss their work on Women's Human Rights in Angola.

Source: BusinessGhana
After the successful launch of theirflagship women's magazine, Essence Of Africa with the December 2014 issue, which featured South Africa's formidable actress and entertainer, Kgomotso Christopher, on the cover, Kwenta Media has had to instigate a name-changing process for the magazine due to unforeseen circumstances to do withthe Essence Of Africatrademark.

Source: Reuters Thomson
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped more than 100 women and children and killed 35 other people on Sunday during a raid on the remote northeast Nigerian village of Gumsuri, a security source and resident said on Thursday.

Source: Open Democracy
On June 15, 2014 I witnessed groups of peaceful demonstrators beaten to the ground and forcefully moved off of the streets and followed to their homes. Most shockingly, a woman was punched in the face and moved off of the sidewalk into the path of oncoming traffic.

Source: Amnesty
Maria Shongwe has overcome obstacles that many women and girls in South Africa face - including poverty and living with HIV - to become an inspirational community activist.

Source: The Guardian
Government soldiers in Sudan are using sexual violence, including the gang-rape of teenage girls, as a weapon of war against southern rebels, a watchdog has claimed.

Source: Devex
Democracy is not complete when women and other groups of individuals do not equally benefit from it, participants agreed at the Annual Democracy Forum 2014 in Gaborone, Botswana.

Source: DISRUPT Africa
The Secretary's Office of Global Partnerships (S/GP) at the US State Department has partnered Girl Up, Intel, Microsoft and the Rwandan Girls Initiative to launch a girls STEAM camp in Rwanda next year.

Source: StarAfrica
The British Ambassador, John Dennis met local NGO, Rede Mulher (Women's Network) to discuss their work on Women's Human Rights in Angola.

Source: AFK Insider
It is becoming more dangerous to represent your country in Parliament. This is the biggest take away from the Inter-Parliamentary Union's annual report on violence against Members of Parliament, "Human Rights Abuses of MPs – 2014,' released earlier this month.

Source: StarAfrica
A group of Somali women have taken a stand to speak for themselves and their fellow women in general back home on issues surrounding the female genital mutilation (FGM).

Source: StarAfrica
A technical workshop on the development of an ECOWAS Gender and Elections Strategy and a pilot Fellowship Programme for Women in Peace and Security as part of determined regional efforts to correct the imbalance of women's participation in democratic elections and good governance opened on Monday in Abuja.

Source: Ventures Africa
Women empowerment continues to garner more global interest and Intel's recent "She Will Connect" programme, a further endorsement of this trend, has seen a new milestone in its execution: the training of 400 women conducted at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) in Nairobi.

Source: World Policy Blog
Tanzania, a country whose population growth vastly exceeds its economic growth, is the 26th poorest country in the world.

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