Source: The Economist

FIRST the good news: according to a report published on July 22nd by UNICEF, the share of the world's girls who are subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) is around a third lower today than it was three decades ago.

Source: Nehanda Radio

Real Opportunities for Transformation Support (ROOTS), a youth driven organisation advocating for economic justice for young people will be launching a campaign to end early, forced child marriages in Zimbabwe.

Source: The Guardian

Men, women and children are being kidnapped and held for months as slaves by militias in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Source: allAfrica                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) says it takes seriously, the high prevalence of various forms of violence against women and girls in Liberia.

Source: allAfrica                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Those of us who have been fortunate enough to get an education know the power that education has to transform life.

Source: allAfrica                                                                                                                                                                                                                    After struggling with several problems Faress Banda, 16, who was at Chitunda Primary School in the area of Sub Traditional Authority (STA) Mnyanja in Kasungu district decided to quit school and see how she would go on with life.

Source: SBS                                                                                                                                                                                                                           A former South Sudanese refugee has walked across New South Wales as part of a campaign to raise money for girls' education in his home country.

Source: Nigerian Tribune                                                                                                                                                                                                         The Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development is to partner with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), in the fight against the growing cases of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and HIV/AIDS in the country.

Source: Quartz                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Family planning counts for a lot when it comes to development in poor countries. It lowers mortality among women and infants, improves educational outcomes, and slows population growth. It also makes it easier for women to enter the workforce, which acts as an economic booster shot even in wealthy nations such as Japan.

Source: Sierra Express Media                                                                                                                                                                                                As part of the United States Embassy's commitment in the development of the Media in Sierra Leone, the Public Affairs Office of the United States Embassy in Freetown has selected Female Broadcast Journalist and General Manager of SKYY Radio, Tiana Alpha, to cover the first U.S. Commitment to Africa Reporting Tour in Washington D.C, which will occur at the end of July and beginning of August.

Source: Zambia Daily Mail                                                                                                                                                                                                      Africa can only sustain its successes if its material conditions ensure that women participate fully alongside men in the production and development of the continent, says former prime minister of Mozambique Luisa Diogo.

Source: Times Live                                                                                                                                                                                                                Skin lightening is about fashion, not inferiority -- and it is an issue ripe with hypocrisy.

Source: Zambia Daily Mail                                                                                                                                                                                                      Founder of 'New Faces, New Voices' Graca Machel, says women should form strong networks to enable them influence change among policy makers.

Source: allAfrica                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has reiterated the need for countries to place more value and also invest in girl-child education.

Source: allAfrica                                                                                                                                                                                                                    For the oil and gas sector to deliver on development outcomes, gender considerations must receive adequate attention, Mrs Patricia Blankson Akakpo, a gender activist of the Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), has noted.

Source: Star Africa                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Malawi is hosting a meeting of ministers responsible for gender/women affairs in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) that is reviewing progress made by member states in implementing the region's gender programme during the past year.

Source: IPS News                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Heightening their campaign to eradicate violence against women and girls, United Nations agencies and civil groups have called for increased action to end child marriage and female genital mutilation.

Source: IRIN News                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Rates of sexual violence in post-war Liberia are still "extremely high" according to a recently published report by UK-based think tank the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).

Source: Al Jazeera                                                                                                                                                                                                                 A Sudanese woman who was spared a death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity and then barred from leaving Sudan, has flown into Rome on an Italian government plane en route to the US, officials say.

Source: IRIN News                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A new Ugandan sex-education campaign to reduce teen pregnancy, maternal mortality among young women and girls, and the cost of post-abortion medical care, is generating heated debate.

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