Source: Sabahi Online
Somalia's federal government pledged action aafter a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report alleged that state security force members were committing rapes and other abuses against women and girls at camps for internally displaced persons in Mogadishu.
Source: Vanguard
Scientists have discovered that apart from pollinating crops, producing honey, beeswax , propolis, pollen and royal jelly, bees could also be the solution to the deadly Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and cancer.
Source: Vanguard
In recent times there have been questions, and different debates whether a woman should drink alcohol during pregnancy or not.
Several studies have pointed to one direction that alcohol no matter how little is not acceptable or safe during pregnancy.
In fact, scientists in most of the studies revealed that alcohol and pregnancy don't mix. The studies stated that when you drink,
Source: The Star
THE Kenya National Union of Teachers has asked the education ministry to create a department to help fight HIV/Aids in the teaching fraternity. Bomet branch acting executive secretary Malel Langat said the department will give teachers proper skills to use when talking to their students about HIV/Aids.
Source: The New Times
A two-day national forum on disability and HIV⁄Aids ended yesterday with a call to achieve zero new infection, zero death and zero stigma by 2015.
Source: UN News
A United Nations envoy has praised the efforts of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to address conflict-related sexual violence, and announced the signing of an agreement with the country’s authorities to address this pervasive issue.
"BE aggressive! use your teeth to bite any part of the body of a rapist, for evidence," these were unsympathetic words from a community leader to women in efforts to counter gender violence in his area.
Source: UN News
A United Nations envoy today expressed dismay at the sexual attacks on women protesters in Egypt, as well as the messages from prominent religious and political leaders that women are to blame.
Source: UN News
A United Nations envoy has arrived in Somalia on an information-gathering visit to raise awareness and discuss ways of addressing sexual violence in the Horn of Africa country.
Source: CIO
Google has created a special Doodle on its homepages across Sub Sahara Africa to mark the 73rd birthday of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Wangari Maathai. In the doodle, a figure of a smiling Wangari replaces the second "o" in the Google logo.
Source: The Zimbabwean
Fatima Shabodien, Country Director for ActionAid South Africa, believes access and control of land is the best way of empowering ordinary African women. She spoke to The Zimbabwean’s Tarisai Jangara about how BRICS, a group of emerging economic powers, would assist African women.
Source: The Star
A number of doctors have raised the alarm about what they see a dangerous move by their bosses at the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation headquarters in Afya House. They are concerned that a decision to replace tried and tested HIV testing kits with new ones that have not yet met the approval of the World Health Organization may be motivated by financial considerations, rather than the health and well-being of Kenyans.
Source: The Star
THE Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation has announced the adoption of new HIV testing test kits that have not been approved by the World Health Organisation.
The Director of Public Health and Sanitation Dr SK Sharif has notified health officers that the new kits already being supplied will replace the old ones.
Source: The Inquirer (Monrovia)
Liberia has again made a giant stride in addressing the issue of newborn infection and prematurity which contribute significantly to newborn deaths in the country with the approval of 7.1% Clorhexidine Digluconate (4% free chiorhexidine) for cord care and the National Guideline on Kangaroo Mother Care for the care of preterm babies.
Source: The Namibian
THE education directorate in the Kunene Region has completed an investigation into a case where a 15-year-old schoolgirl was allegedly impregnated by a teacher.
"The investigation is completed and the teacher will appear at a hearing to give him an opportunity to give his side of the story," Simon Tsuseb,
Source: Christian Aid (London)
Christian Aid Week (12-18 May 2013 www.caweek.org), Britain's longest running door-to-door fundraising week, will this year be urging the British public to 'bite back at hunger' and ask why, in a world where there is enough food for everyone, 1 in 8 people go to bed hungry every night?
Source: The Guardian
When she was 12, Kakenya Ntaiya made a deal with her father: she would undergo the Maasai rite of passage of female circumcision if he would let her go to high school. If she had run away Ntaiya's father would have been shamed in his village, so he agreed to her terms and the ceremony went ahead.
Source: Huffington
As a young African woman, I sit at my desk in Johannesburg trying to make sense of the recent international shockwave surrounding rape, and what it means for lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in South Africa.
Source: The Daily News
The Cairo Centre for Development and Human Rights on Monday expressed deep concern and dismay at continuous efforts to subvert women’s rights and gender equality in Egypt.
Source: The Foundry
Another U.N. Meeting Equates “Women’s Rights” with Abortion, Sexual RightsOnce again, this year’s U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)—ostensibly themed on the prevention of violence against women and girls—actually focused on expanding so-called sexual and reproductive rights for women and girls, including abortion.