Source: Al-Jazeera
Despite a precarious 30 percent quota for women in government, Yemeni activists say women's rights have been sidelined.
Source: The New Times
The University of Rwanda is embarking on a research to establish why female students are reluctant to apply and enroll into the institution.
Source: The New Times
The University of Rwanda is embarking on a research to establish why female students are reluctant to apply and enroll into the institution.
Source: Sun News Online The American University Nigeria Academy (AUN) in Yola, Adamawa State, has awarded scholarships to 13 Chibok schoolgirls who escaped from Boko Haram abductors.
Source: The Star More than 600 girls in Kuria have denounced female genital mutilation. The girls, aged between five and 15, have appealed to their parents to take them to school. They said they want to "meet the circumciser's knife in books".
Source: Diplomat
Mekdes Murgeta does not remember her actual wedding, but her family told her it happened when she was five. Pointing at her own five-year-old daughter she confirms she was her age.
Sources: The Herald
Ednah Masiyiwa, the director of the Women in Action Group, a lobby group for women's rights is probably the longest serving director in the women's movement. She has been with the organisation for 22 years, 12 of which she has spent at the helm of the organisation as a director. Ms Masiyiwa says her decision to hold the post for such a long time has not been motivated by the perceived grandeur - of four wheel drive vehicles, foreign trips and unlimited power perks normally associated with directors for NGOS.
Source: Daily Independent
Recently, United Nations (UN) hosted journalists from four States of Adamawa, Gombe, Plateau, Kaduna and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja at an interactive session to brainstorm on how to promote women's engagement in peace and security in Northern Nigeria. The training workshop was facilitated by the United Nations Women through its media consultant, Bronz and Onyx International Limited.
Source: UN Multimedia Women are often more affected than men by climate change, especially if during a natural disaster. That's according to the Deputy Executive Director of UN Women.
Source: SA News A Tshwane businesswoman has challenged women in leadership positions to act as a channel of uplifting other women who are less fortunate by creating opportunities for employment.
Source: The Guardian / IPP Media
Graca Machel, Nelson Mandela's widow and founder of the Graca Machel Trust has said since Tanzania is in the process of reviewing its constitution, oppressive laws on women and children should also be reviewed and amended Tanzania is among 20 leading countries in child marriage cases with statistics showing that for every five girls, two are married under the age of 18.
Source: The GW Hatchet
The Global Women's Institute will partner with international researchers over the next five years to study violence against women and girls in South Sudan, the University announced Tuesday.
Source: The Australian
THE world's foremost advocate for women's empowerment is urging Australia to make gender equality a key goal at this year's G20 or risk further entrenching global inequality.
Source: Times of Zambia / AllAfrica
NEW Faces, New Voices (NFNV) is a Pan-African advocacy group that focuses on expanding the role and influence of women in the financial sector.
Source: Government of Nigeria
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Zainab Maina has said that empowering the Nigerian woman politically and economically is key to achieving the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the country.
Source: The Guardian
World Bank report says mobile money and electronic transfers could bring financial services to 2.5 billion marginalised people
Source: The Guardian
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka was appointed United Nations under-secretary-general and executive director of UN Women in August 2013. As a South African government minister and deputy president, she led programmes to combat poverty and share the benefits of economic growth, with a particular focus on women. Actively involved in civil society and the struggle to end apartheid, she is a longtime champion of social justice, women’s rights, and gender equality.
Source: Inter Press Service
Growing up with five brothers, soccer-mad Majidah Nantanda had half a team to compete against at home in Makindye, a suburb in Uganda’s capital, Kampala. But at her school, in the 1990s, there were two sports rules: “Netball for the girls and football for the boys,” recalls the 32-year-old, as she stands on the sidelines of a boy’s game in Makindye.
Source: Development Diaries
Connected Development (CODE) with support from the New Venture Fund through the development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) brought together 17 young women from different spheres of life in Abuja, Nigeria, to build their capacities in identifying issues involved in overcoming barriers to girl child education.
Source: Feminist Majority Foundation
Approximately 63 percent of sexually active Cameroonian women who want to avoid pregnancy do not have access to a modern form of contraception, according to a recently released report by the Guttmacher Institute and the French Institut de Formation et de Recherche Démographiques (IFORD).