Source: IPS
When she was nine years old, Jane Meriwas, a Samburu from the Kipsing Plains in Kenya's Rift Valley region, was considered of no use by her father. After all, nine of his goats had been eaten by hyenas under her watch.
North Darfur has announced its total commitment to empowering rural women through microfinance programmes as an ideal way of expanding production in the state.
Source: Gender Links
"My mother forced me into early marriage. She did it so my husband could help her with salt and sugar. During the marriage, my husband frequently beat me. My mother always said I had to get used to that pain because that's what marriage means," recalls 15-year-old Lucy.*
Source: Gender Links
group of regional NGOs have condemned recent utterances made by Zambia's Minister of Defence, Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba, suggesting that 'beating a wife is a sign of love' and 'mild' forms of violence against women are acceptable where he comes from.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
WITH 12 aircrafts, 40 pilots and daily flights, Coastal Travels is probably the largest airline in the country in terms of equipment. At a tender age of 35 years, the airline's Chief Instructor for Pilots, Captain Maynard Mkumbwa, with accumulated 12,300 flying hours, has been tasked to oversee the pilots' adherence to professional standards.
Source: Daily trust
As part of its efforts at sensitizing Nigerians on issues of maternal and child health, the National Council of Women's Societies in Nigeria (NCWS) has rolled out plans to take campaigns to the 774 local governments in the country.
Source: Daily Observer
A three-day high-level international Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) Leadership Conference for 30 Gambians and 10 African-American teenage leaders ended Saturday evening with a banquet at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in Kololi where participants were presented with awards.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
HUMAN rights activists in the country are demanding that the government obliges and makes comprehensive reproductive health services available, in order to fulfill people's rights to life and health.
Source: Leadership
An independent United Nations human rights expert has stressed the need to hold States accountable not only for investigating acts of violence against women but also for failing to prevent such violence.
Source: This Day
After several cancelled appointments due to the nature of her job Chineme Okafor finally got close-up with Aisha Umar, the Abuja's pioneer female taxi driver. He writes about the life of a woman who breaks the jinx to succeed in a profession commonly reserved for menfolk.
Source: South African Government
Public Protector Advocate Thuli Madonsela has urged women to take a leading role in their various respective responsibilities to help in the transformation of society.
Source: The Point
The National Enterprise Development Initiative (NEDI) on Friday presented a rice milling machine to 'Boleba Kafo' (big basin), a women group at Illiassa Village, Upper Baddibu District, North Bank Region.
Source: Aswat Masriya
An Egyptian woman, who took her harasser to court in April after he physically attacked her for standing up for herself, now awaits his trial which is scheduled for next Wednesday.
Source: Aswat Masriya
U.N. agencies have called for the prosecution of an Egyptian doctor after a 13-year-old girl died while undergoing female genital mutilation at a private clinic. Egypt banned FGM in 2008 but it is still widely practised there, sometimes by traditional cutters but also by medical staff operating in secret.
Source: Asway Masriya
Thirteen-year-old Sohair al-Batea died shortly after a Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) operation was conducted on her Thursday evening at a clinic in the governorate of Daqahlia, a UN statement said.
Source: Huffington Post
Throughout history, making progress towards gender equality has been a long and hard fought battle. Today, the violation of women's rights in emerging markets and around the world still remains widespread.
Source: World Stage
On July 2-3, 2013, African First Ladies from across the continent will gather at the George W. Bush Institute's African First Ladies Summit, "Investing in Women: Strengthening Africa" in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to focus on the important role First Ladies play in promoting women's education, health and economic empowerment.
Issues in the previous two weeks looked closely at UNESCO and its approaches from an educational perspective.
During a meeting held in Kigali last week, women activists raised concern that there is a lot that needs to be done to have women playing a more robust role in elective politics within the East African Community. In an exclusive interview with The New Times' Sarah Kwihangana,
Source: DW
The female condom has been making its way across developing countries, particularly those in the African continent. While many see this as a woman's commodity, one man in Mozambique is actively campaigning for it too.