Source: The NewTimes
Involving more women in decision-making has been important in Rwanda's meteoric rise two decades after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, experts attending the ongoing Women In Parliament Summit have said.
Source: HuffigtonPost
Nigerian troops have arrested a businessman suspected of being at the head of a Boko Haram intelligence network that helped plan the abduction of more than 200 school girls in the northeast, the military said on Tuesday.
Source: The Herald
Women'S Affairs, Gender and Community Development Minister Oppah Muchinguri (pictured right) has raised concern over the failure by fellow ministers to observe the 50-50 representation in the appointment of parastatal boards.
Source: PMNCH
Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway, Co-chair of the MDG Advocates Group, and Graça Machel, Chair of The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH), joined world leaders and the reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) community to review progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals focused on women and children's health, and to identify targets for healthy women and children for the post-2015 sustainable development agenda.
Source: National Yemen
Produced for Yemeni TV, short film raises awareness of the issues surrounding women and the security and justice sector in Yemen.
Source: BusinessGhana
World Bank Group's Board of Executive Directors has approved US$107 million in financial grants to the countries of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Rwanda to provide integrated health and counseling services, legal aid, and economic opportunities, to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). The project will also strengthen health services for poor and vulnerable women in Africa's Great Lakes region.
Source: MENAFN PRESS
Early struggles in developing a response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic were remembered by African women church leaders who gathered in Nairobi Kenya to celebrate more than 30 years of their Christian ministry in the churches of their region.
Source: ALMONITOR
At a time when the Egyptian government has recognized the need to stop physical and sexual violence against women, human rights organizations have registered dozens of cases of physical abuse against women in Egyptian prisons pending trial for political issues.
Source: Awoko
It has come out clearly that the government of Sierra Leone has not yet ratified the Moputo Protocol in July 2003 along with 52 other African countries. This failure to domesticate the Protocol geared towards promoting the fight against all forms of discrimination against women in society and ensures the rights of women in sexual and reproductive health (SHR) are guaranteed, has drew the interest of women rights activists.
Source: The ManicaPost
THE MDC-T Women Assembly Manicaland executive members and representatives from the 26 constituencies in the province have resigned from the Morgan Tsvangirai camp and joined the Tendai Biti-led Renewal Team on the grounds of persistent violation of women's rights and bed-hopping behaviour of the party's leadership.
Source: New Vision
Ugandan men have been ranked as some of the leading wife beaters in Africa, according to a Scorecard compiled from reports made by different UN organs on domestic violence.
Source: allAfrica
What if there was there was a practice that, if ended, could improve the lives of millions of women and girls worldwide? Every year, 14 million girls are married before the age of 18 inmost cases without their consent and with severe consequences for their health. Child marriage not only holds women and girls back, it holds back our efforts to make the world a safer and healthier place for everyone.
Source: The Guardian
In 1990, the Italian World Cup was played to the sound of Luciano Pavarotti's Nessun Dorma. In that same year, 12.6 million under-fives died from largely preventable diseases, and 104 million children of primary school age were out of school.
Source: UN News Centre
To triumph over maternal mortality, initiatives must focus on adolescent girls, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said, ones that allow them to go to school, marry whom they choose, shield them from harmful traditional practices and provide them with appropriate family planning services.
Source: Leadership Executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr Babatunde Osotimehin, has called on world leaders to step up immediate and decisive actions against violence on women and girls globally.
Source: Awoko The Country Director and Senior Policy Adviser Ipas Sierra Leone, Valarie Tucker has called on the media to provide more space and develop more programs relating to Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights in order to intensify on the awareness campaign on SRHR for women in the country and to advocate on the improvement of health facilities and services.
Source: Media Club South Afica Women's rights in South Africa have taken a massive leap forward with the launch of the Women's Empowerment Index by the International Women's Forum South Africa (IWFSA).
Source: GhanaWeb
Mrs. Latifa Siddique Abobo, Acting Upper West Regional Director of the Department of Children, has stated that Ghana deserves to be praised for many of its achievements in education.
Source: The Independent
How quickly the outrage passes on from the front pages. A month or so ago much of the world seemed united in its condemnation of the kidnapping of more than 200 girls by Boko Haram, the Islamist sect, in Nigeria.
Source:Hamilton Spectator By the time she ran away, Maimuna bore the scars of a short but brutal marriage. Her face swelled so much from her husband's beating that doctors feared he had dislocated her jaw. Her back and arms bristled with angry welts where her father had whipped her for fleeing to him. She was gaunt from hunger, dressed in filthy rags. And barely a year after her wedding, she was divorced.