Source: Leadership
The Lagos State Police Command is investigating the case of gang-rape involving two officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in the metropolis, LEADERSHIP has reliably gathered.
Source: Daily Trust
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) has promised to support Nigeria in securing the release of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgent five weeks ago.
Source: The Inquirer
Liberia Women are calling on the Government of Liberia to condemn the kidnapping of two hundred girls in Nigeria by the militants of Boko Haram.
Source: This Day Live
Statistics from the Lagos State AIDS Control Agency has revealed that in the last one year 1,702 pregnant women tested positive to HIV and had to be placed on prophylaxis.
Source: News24
Johannesburg — THE Women's League of South Africa's ruling party has outlined its programme of action to show solidarity with the 200 schoolgirls Boko Haram members recently abducted in Chibok, Borno State.
Source: The Guardian
The 10-year-old girl who was raped but unable to terminate her pregnancy due to Senegal's ban on abortion has given birth to twin boys.
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.
Meriam Yehya Ibrahim faces a death sentence in Sudan for apostasy after a court ruled she converted from Islam.
Source: Awareness Times Women across the country, who assembled on 13th and 14th May 2014 in Magburaka Town to draft the Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Bill and domestication of CEDAW in a consultative forum, have expressed their disappointment over what they described as bad customs and tradition which do not allow them in certain parts of the country to sit on the Paramount ChieftaincyThrone.
Source: Institute For Security Studies
ANALYSIS
Over three million people have tweeted about it by now. The #BringBackOurGirls Twitter campaign has seen a phenomenal uptake, with heads of state (and their wives), movie stars and women's rights leaders all joining in to highlight the plight of the more than 200 school girls kidnapped by the militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, in north-eastern Nigeria last month.
Source: IRIN
Juba — Sexual and gender-based violence might not be a new phenomenon in South Sudan, but the current crisis and the near absence of protection for civilians has exacerbated it, analysts say.
Source: DW
An HIV prevention bill passed by Ugandan lawmakers has caused an outrcy amongst those fighting for the rights of people living with HIV. The bill calls for mandatory HIV tests for pregnant women.
Source: SAnews.gov.za
Calls for the release of the more than 200 Nigerian school girls, recently kidnapped by the Islamic militant group Boko-Haram, are intensifying in South Africa. Women, Children and People with Disabilities Minister Lulu Xingwana on Wednesday again called for their safe return.
Source: The Star
Anti-FGM Board Chairperson Linah Kilimo with Christine Nanjals who is Director of the Unit of Prosecutors at the DPPs handling the FGM cases.
Source: Vanguard
A woman, Hajiya Maimuna Danja, Wednesday died on her way to Katsina to pray for the release of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls.
Source: UN News Centre
The United Nations expert committee tasked with monitoring discrimination against women today added its voice to the chorus of condemnation of the abduction of over 200 girls from their school in north-eastern Nigeria and called for their immediate release.
Source: World Bank
PRESS RELEASE
Less educated girls far more likely to suffer violence, child marriage
Girls with little or no education are far more likely to be married as children, suffer domestic violence, live in poverty, and lack a say over household spending or their own health care than better-educated peers, which harms them, their children, and communities, a new report by the World Bank Group finds.
WHEN terrorists in Nigeria organized a secret attack last month, they didn’t target an army barracks, a police department or a drone base. No, Boko Haram militants attacked what is even scarier to a fanatic: a girls’ school.
Leaders have opposed attempts to amend the law to reduce the number of women representation in Parliament and in county assemblies. Senate Speaker Ekwe Ethuro admitted that the country was agonising over how to achieve the two-third gender rule by 2015, but said women’s rights must be protected.