Source: Daily Observer
Women councilors across the country were recently trained on the Women’s Act 2010, Domestic Violence Act 2013 and Sexual Offences Act 2013.
Source: CNN
From ambitious teens taking on the world and tech pioneers breaking boundaries to maverick slum dwellers dreaming big and trailblazing innovators tackling social problems, CNN's African Start-Up has been following the efforts of the continent's innovative and determined entrepreneurs to make their business dreams become reality.
Source: Inter Press Services
From all across Rwanda, and even from parts of neighbouring Burundi, people flock to the southern town of Butare to a little shop called Inzozi Nziza or Sweet Dreams. They come here for a taste of something of the unknown, something most have never tasted in their lives — the sweet, cold, velvety embrace of ice cream.
Source: The New Times
Women should be empowered to participate in Africa's economic development if robust growth is to be sustained, political leaders said at the ongoing African Development Bank (AfDB) Annual Meetings yesterday.
Source: OHCHR
The establishment of the Working Group by the Human Rights Council at its 15th session in September 2010 was a milestone on the long road towards women’s equality with men. Over the years, many constitutional and legal reforms to integrate women’s human rights fully into domestic law have occurred, but there remains insufficient progress.
Source: Mamamia.com
Nava Malula knows what it is to be a woman in a war zone. As a survivor of the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she describes her memories of brutal violence against civilians as a wound that won't stop bleeding.
Source: CNN
A series of gold-framed pictures cover the wall from left to right inside the working space of Senegalese human rights activist Bineta Diop. Nelson Mandela, Paul Kagame, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Yasser Arafat -- they're all here. This is Diop's wall of memories, reminders of meetings and accomplishments over the years.
Source: Al Jazeera
It's been a month since over 200 school girls were abducted by the armed group Boko Haram in Borno state in northerneastern Nigeria. As the crisis in Borno sparks fresh debate about religious fundamentalism on the African continent, it is important that we don't just focus on armed groups performing horrendous acts in the supposed name of God.
Source: The Guardian
A doctor is to stand trial in Egypt on charges of female genital mutilation on Thursday, the first case of its kind in a country where FGM is illegal but widely accepted.
Source: allAfrica
THIS WEEK thousands of decision makers have gathered in Kigali to join the African Development Bank in discussing the future we want for Africa.
Source: Thomas Reuters Foundation
The following questions were selected from a Q+A with Leymah Gbowee of Liberia originally carried on Facebook by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in partnership with the Women's Refugee Commission.
Source: Al Jazeera English
It's been a month since over 200 school girls were abducted by the armed group Boko Haram in Borno state in northerneastern Nigeria.
Yesterday, the Government of Ugandan took a major step back in the fight against HIV.
Over the past several decades, the World Bank has been an important thought leader on the value of investing in women and girls.
The majority of businesswomen and aspiring female entrepreneurs in Namibia are stuck in a condition that does not allow them to progress.
Source: Women Under Siege
In what experts are calling the single worst atrocity since fighting broke out in South Sudan last December, hundreds of men, women, and children were killed last month when rebels seized the northern oil town of Bentiu. The rebels denied the allegations, saying it was retreating government troops who perpetrated the murders.
Economic changes in recent decades have shifted traditional power structures and witnessed the emergence of concepts that emphasize gender equality. It is acknowledged that across the continent, women play a pivotal role in agricultural production, rural economy, household-level nutrition and the reduction of rural poverty.
Source: VibeGhana
Ms Dorcas Coker-Appiah, gender advocate, has expressed disappointment over the strikingly missing women leadership role persistent in the Ghanaian society in spite of numerous policies and actions to bridge the gap.
Source: Daily Independent
The Executive Director of UN Women, Ms Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, on Monday charged Nigeria to emplace policies that would promote gender equality and women empowerment.
Nearly 20 years ago, the world came together in Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women. There, 189 governments adopted a visionary roadmap for gender equality: the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.