Source: Humanosphere
Some 73 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America are responsible for 96% of global maternal deaths and more than 90% of newborn deaths. Yet, these same countries are home to only 42% of the world's health workforce.
Source: BBC Africa
Security officials "routinely" rape women in prisons in DR Congo as punishment for their political activities, a UK-based charity says.
Source: The Guardian
A Masai couple charged with the murder of a girl who was in their care and bled to death after being subjected to female genital mutilation pleaded not guilty in a Kenyan court on Wednesday.
Source: The Guardian
Interventions to end hunger and malnutrition often focus on women. Our panel explore why.
Source: Vanguard
INTERVIEW
Canadian-born Jelena Zivkovic is the Acting Director, Academic Advising & Retention at the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, Adamawa State. In this chat with Vanguard, Jelena whose real interest is entrepreneurship, especially women entrepreneurs, says northern women who were hitherto very conservative, are beginning to enter the workplace or business place so she decided to find out why.
Source: allAfrica
With South Sudan's peace process floundering, members of the diaspora and their American supporters have come up with a possible solution: give women leadership roles and let them restore peace.
Source: Post2015.org
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been praised for their ability to focus effort and attention of the international community on key issues relevant to the future of the majority of the world population.
Source: SBS
Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as Africa's largest economy and experts say female entrepreneurs have been one of the key drivers behind the country's economic success.
Source: Ventures
Countries in Africa are not meeting the demands required to make business environment conducive for female entrepreneurs, Dell yesterday stated, as results of the second-annual Dell Gender-Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (2014 Gender-GEDI) which analysed 30 developed and developing countries were announced.
Source: Somaliland Sun
AMISOM Gender Unit today held a sensitization workshop for senior officers drawn from AMISOM military and police component on good practices in preventing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.
Source: Gender Link
Limited access to sexual reproductive health and abuse from male customers have been identified as key factors that place sex workers at risk of contracting HIV. Nkomile Mpooa of CARE-Lesotho brought the issue up during her presentation at the SADC Protocol@Work Summit currently underway in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Source: UN News Centre
Speaking at the launch of a video campaign on ending sexual violence through gender equality, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that it is time to demand action to eliminate a scourge that harms millions of women and girls around the world.
Source: Sci Dev Net
Africa is desperate to catch up with developed nations — especially in terms of using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to achieve sustainable growth. One of the issues Africa is keen to address to achieve sustainable economic growth is gender equality in ICTs access and use. How best can the continent narrow the gap, empower girls and women and realign the imbalance that currently favours males?
Source: SABC News
All elected public officials and executive council members must publicly take a stand against rape and all forms of sexual abuse against women and children, KwaZulu-Natal premier Senzo Mchunu said on Tuesday.
Source: Voice of America
As the number of deaths of young girls subjected to the traditional African practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) increases, the population of village practitioners grows even bigger. One of Liberia's outspoken opponents of the practice is Angela Peabody.
Source: Daily Observer
The First Lady of the Republic has outlined the numerous contributions and gains registered by the government of The Gambia under the leadership of President Jammeh in the area of women empowerment, noting that the regime has long since recognised them as an important prerequisite for the attainment of sustainable development.
Source: Trust
It was five in the morning when Congolese police came to arrest Faith, beating her small children with their guns and leading her husband outside, never to be seen again.
Source: UN News Centre
Despite major global progress in improving the health of children and their mothers, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged participants at a summit in Toronto to show the leadership, build the key partnerships, generate the financing and devise the creative solutions needed to deliver a world of health, safety and possibility for every woman and every child.
Source: UNFPA
ABUJA, Nigeria – Since her marriage at age 14, Zuera Mustapha, now 21, has experienced two stillbirths and a recurrent obstetric fistula resulting from her difficult deliveries. Yet even with these hardships, she has been luckier than some; her mother and sister both died of complications in childbirth. In northern Nigeria, where she lives, fistula and maternal death are alarmingly common – a fact UNFPA is working to change.
Source: PM News
The AU has announced plans to engage the Federal Government and other stakeholders in a meeting, in a fresh bid to rescue over 200 girls abducted by insurgents in Chibok, Borno.