Source: IPS
For more than 20 years, Anastasia Ngwakun from Bamunkumbit village in central Cameroon has been farming rice the hard way - using only hand tools. But Ngwakun knows that if she were a man, she would have access to the technology that would not require her to work so hard.
Source: Trust
Patrolling the wards of the hospital she founded in the breakaway enclave of Somaliland, Edna Adan Ismail held the hand of a teenage girl about to have a fistula repair operation, urging her to be brave.
Source: East African Business Week
Uganda last week launched a major national drive to end maternal and child deaths across the country.As part of the global 'Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed' movement, the Vice President Edward Ssekandi, unveiled a sharpened plan that aims to prevent an additional 40 per cent of Under 5 deaths and 26 per cent of maternal deaths by 2017.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
THE Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) and the Police Force yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) as part of its commemoration of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV).
Source: The Star
This is the second article in our series to mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, a partnership between the Star and COVAW.
Source: AFP via Al Arabiya News
A UN General Assembly committee has agreed a landmark first resolution on women's rights defenders such as Malala Yousafzai, despite a hard fought campaign by an alliance including the Vatican to weaken the measure.
Source: GenderLinks
Climate change is happening fast. Africa is already feeling the negative effects, yet this continent is the least responsible for it.
Source: SciDev.net
The editor of a recent UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report has concluded that smallholder farmers must be involved in biotechnology and innovation research to reduce poverty.
Source: The Star
Beatrice Khalayi Shibunga is a community health worker and family planning champion, working in the slums of Korogocho in Nairobi. She goes door-to-door to offer women in her community family planning information. In her work experience, she has met women who use contraceptives but without the knowledge or consent of their husbands.
Source: The Star
MOMBASA Deputy Governor Hazel Katana has said they will come up with strategies to ensure women and youth get equal opportunities at the county level. She said the county will initiate projects tailored for women and youth, through the Youth, Gender and Sports docket.
Source: Sabahi
The Tanzanian police force has launched a three-year action plan to fight gender-based violence and child abuse in the country, Tanzania's Daily News reported Wednesday (November 27th).
Source: The Daily Observer
The resident coordinator of the United Nations system in The Gambia has praised the government for the strong push for women empowerment, saying the country is on the right path to unleashing the potential of women in national development.
Source: Malawi News Agency
Minister of Gender, Children and Welfare, Clara Makungwa on Tuesday said government would support, with funding and campaign resources, every woman willing to contest in the 2014 tripartite elections. Makungwa said Malawi as a country had not done enough in improving representation of women in both politics and decision making position.
Source: The New Dawn
Women groups from diverse organizations here under the banner Women NGOs Secretariat, have threatened to display photographs of rape victims as means of claiming authorities' attention, if nothing is done to speedily adjudicate rape cases.
Source: Aswat Masriya
The Egyptian authorities have released 26 women who were detained on Tuesday during the dispersal of a protest against military trials for civilians.
Source: IPS
Uganda has gotten plenty of kudos and some criticism over its roll out of the new antiretroviral therapy for pregnant women and their babies, known as Option B +.
Source: Ryot
Government grants in South Africa are keeping young women away from “sugar daddies,” who health officials say are major contributors to the spread of HIV.
Source: WWN
Walking down a quiet street in Cairo to enjoy the evening air, 23-year-old Heba couldn’t help but wonder whether she was putting herself in harm’s way. “Can I join my family for dinner after this walk,” she asked herself. Heba is one of the countless women in Egypt who worry about being sexually harassed on a daily basis while using public transportation, going to school, or simply taking a walk.
Source: Spy Ghana
The Minister for Gender, children and social protection, Hon. Nana Oye Lithur, has said violence against women must be a priority for all men and women who are committed to contributing to the development of their societies. She made this known at a press briefing on 16 days activism against gender-based violence for elimination of violence against women in Accra.