Source: Albawaba Business
Gender still remains an area of great concern for harnessing the full productive potential of the North African and Middle Eastern Woman when it comes to the work place. Women's participation in the labour force, and in paid employment has maintained an upward trend in almost all regions of the world at 56.6%.
Source: Daily Observer
The government of The Gambia through the Office of the Vice President and Ministry of Women Affairs on Friday launched The Gambia National Action Plan on the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR) on Women, Peace and Security at the fringes of the just concluded first ever high-level women conference in Banjul as part of celebrations marking the 2014 International Women's Day.
Source: Today's Zaman
An international summit in İstanbul, with women's perspectives on the United Nation's post-2015 Development Agenda as its focus, has called for women's empowerment as a condition for sustainable development.
Source: Sudan Tribune
Washington — The United States appeared to suggest today that it has yet to establish that the children of a Sudanese women sentenced to death on apostasy charges are American citizens.
Source: News24
The Lagos State Government has sworn in 12 new magistrates, a majority of them female.
The 10 female magistrates and their male counterparts join the existing 107 presiding over the magistrate courts in the state.
Source: The New Times
THE Rwanda fashion industry has over the years evolved into a lucrative and vibrant business sector. Women have been largely behind this mushrooming industry.
Source: allAfrica
Access to education remains one of the rights that majority of girls have been deprived of because of early pregnancies and marriage. Culture and poverty also limits women's chances to access a decent education.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
FOR the young Maasai girls who flocked to the Lusane dispensary, 72 kms from Kilindi District headquarters, Songe, dressed in colourful regalia, Thursday May 22, 2014 was a special day for them.
At their age they would normally get ready for the traumatic and dangerous practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). On this particular day, however, it was the opposite.
Source: Daily Independent
Abuja — Arrangements have been concluded to provide women at the grassroots level in Africa with leadership and advocacy skills that would enable them to contribute meaningfully in the democratic space.
Source: The Point
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Source: Voice of America
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: Independent.ie
Daniel Wani, the husband of the Sudanese woman sentenced to hang for apostasy, has spoken for the first time of his delight at seeing his baby daughter – and his anger at the authorities' insistence on keeping Meriam Ibrahim in chains.
Source: Leadership Nigeria News
Hajiya Asma'u Yari, the wife of Zamfara Governor, has called on parents in the state to enrol their female children in school to ensure a bright future for them.
Source: ABC News
Women face discrimination, inequality in army.
Source: Leadership Nigeria News
Political parties in the country have been urged to produce more women candidates in the 2015 general elections. Hajiya Halima Alfa, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) made the call in a statement issued and signed by her to commemorate the 2014 Democracy Day on Thursday.
Source: The guardian
For many girls in Uganda, life stops when they get their period. On menstrual hygiene day, find out how one NGO is helping girls stay in school all month long.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
NETWORKING among women in villages has helped to intensify the campaign against Gender- Based Violence in some areas of Zanzibar. There is seriousness in controlling violation of the rights of children and women. Effective networking groups in some Zanzibar villages have helped to unearth many abuses such as rape and defilement of children.
Source: IRIN
The spike in women managing their own agricultural land following Zimbabwe's 2000 land reform programme catapulted the country to high up in the African league of female farmers tilling their own farms, although accurate data for gendered land ownership on the continent remains a grey and contested area.
Source: United States Embassy of South AFrica
"Violence against women is not a women's issue. It's a men's issue." This was the heart of Dr. Jackson Katz's message during his recent visit. The internationally recognized American author, filmmaker and cultural theorist traveled to South Africa to share his groundbreaking work in gender violence prevention education and critical media literacy.
Source: Newsday
Young sexual and reproductive health rights activist, Charmaine Picardo, says her participation in the Washington Fellowship will assist her in developing local solutions to common health challenges affecting young people.