Source: Medical Daily
Not many people in America are aware that in some countries, a girl might be killed because her wedding dowry wasn't good enough. Or that victims of sexual abuse are often blamed for the crimes of their perpetrators, and punished by being stoned to death.
Source: Public Radio Interntional
Many South African women who came of age under an apartheid government are still active in the fight for their rights. But no longer is the main issue race. Now, women and girls across the country are in a fierce struggle against gender inequality.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
A surge in reports of rape, torture and kidnapping of girls in Tanzania shows that the introduction of specialist units in police stations is giving survivors confidence to report these crimes, a senior official has said.
Source: Slate
With all of the news about Ebola's rapid, dispiriting spread through West Africa, you may have missed an encouraging public health development: The continent appears tantalizingly close to fully eradicating polio, once one of the world's most feared and destructive diseases.
Source: UNDP
Liberia could experience negative GDP growth for the first time since the war ended 11 years ago unless urgent action is taken to stimulate the economy.
Source: Eyewitness News
Following the recent release of videos on the internet showing a women being stripped and beaten, women and men from countries across Africa attended the 9th Africa Regional Conference on Women Beijing +20 Review in Addis Ababa.
Source: BBC News
Two Tunisian policeman convicted of raping a woman in a police car have had their sentences more than doubled in a high-profile court case.
Source: All Africa
With the commemoration of World Aids Day around the corner, Cabinet has called on all communities to support, care and accept people living with HIV and Aids.
Source: The Guardian
The five, including those who carried out female genital mutilation, were jailed for four years in a rare conviction since practice made a crime in 2010
Source: All Africa
On Wednesday, 19 November 2014, the Northern Cape High court sentenced Rankadi Emmanuel Tsilo (43) to 14 years imprisonment for the murder of his wife.
Source: Nigerian Observer
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
Source: Global Post
Chinese telecommunications giants, ZTE and Huawei, on Thursday announced a new partnership with Kenyan grassroots organizations to promote girl child education, female entrepreneurship and the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Source: TheParliamentMagazine.eu
The key to winning the fight against HIV/Aids is changing societies from within and raising awareness on sexual and reproductive health, says Sirpa Pietikäinen.
Source: Nigerian Observer
Child upbringing is not managing a child, but reassuring and supporting the child, and setting up limits. This is the beginning of a healthy relationship in the family and the society as a whole.
Source: All Africa
Non-governmental organisations like the Cape Town Child Welfare Society provide a range of services for children at risk.
Source: Global Times
The UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has called for stepping up efforts to build on gains in the implementation of Beijing declaration, a commitment by governments to ensure gender equality, women's empowerment and human rights among others.
Source: The Huffigton Post
On November 17, 2014, at a women's health event called "Better by Half," Barbara Bush and Melinda Gates voiced concerns about women's health in Ebola-affected countries.
Source: Ghana Web
Closing the gender gap in agriculture would accelerate significant economic gains in developing countries, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said.
Source: The Telegraph
As the first global Women's Entrepreneurship Day launches, Emma Sinclair reminds us there's no 'typical' image of a female entrepreneur and says that - for women in remote parts of the world - being self-sufficient in business is a matter of life or death.
Source: New Business Ethiopia
The Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA ), Mr. Carlos Lopes, urged African countries to work hard on women empowerment and gender equality.