Source: The Namibian
A total of 14 girls aged between 14 and 18 years fell pregnant at Bethanie village in the South between January 2012 and January 2013.
Source: Heritage (Monrovia)
A United Kingdom (UK) based Registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, working with the Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Dr. Matt Prior, has asserted that pregnant women in Liberia have a 25% chance of dying at child birth. Dr Prior, while recently visiting Liberia averred that pregnant women in the country had a 25 per cent chance of dying in childbirth,
Source: The New Dawn (Monrovia)
Emergency-care training for Liberian midwives and nurses has ended at the headquarters of the Bong County Health Team in Suakoko, Bong County. The training was organized by the Maternal and Child-health Advocacy International, a medical organization based in Scotland.
Source: IRIN
Boosting women's access to reproductive healthcare could significantly reduce both the number of unsafe abortions and the high cost of post-abortion medical care in Uganda, experts say.
Source: Kuwait News Agency
Algerian Minister of National Solidarity and Family Affairs Souad Bent Jaballah on Monday called for putting in play woman role in Arab economic development and facing up to accelerated changes in the region.
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) says it has embarked on massive mobilisation of women ahead of the 2015 general elections.
Source: SACSIS
Women's bodies have been the locale of war since the inception of patriarchy - a misogynistic trend that saw the female body become the site of restraint, control and oppression. Thus the female body has largely become a meme of violence, suffering and exploitation rather than joy, pleasure and autonomy.
Source: Pambazuka
South African women are regularly confronted with systemic sexual harassment, violence, and murder as the recent cases of Shrien Dewani, Anene Booysen and Reeva Steenkamp illustrate. Sustainable development will be unobtainable when women and children are brutalized by violence and any other form of gender based discrimination of which the state has a duty to prevent.
Source: Guardian
Poor quality and underfunded public services are exacerbating the "constant" violence, harassment and intimidation that millions of women face in cities and urban centres across the world, according to a report.
Source: Liberia Government
When word reached President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia that the women of the African Development Bank were requesting to meet with her, the President agreed instantly to this unscheduled addition to her already tight itinerary in Tunis, the Bank’s temporary headquarters.
Source: The Star
Maternal Health Care Royal Gardens Hospital has partnered with religious leaders to enhance safe motherhood and reach vulnerable mothers across all economic divides. The hospital hopes to raise cash from donors to subsidize maternity charges to increase hospital deliveries.
Source: Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)
Morogoro — PREGNANT women have been urged to eat healthy food to protect their unborn babies from disabilities.
The call was made over the weekend by American doctors, who are providing free medical services to people with disabilities in Morogoro Region, and said other disabilities are caused by lack of nutrients during pregnancy.
Source: Aswat Masriya
Political activists launched on Saturday an initiative called E'rafni (Know Me) to support women candidates in the upcoming parliamentary elections, to help convey their voices to everyone in Egypt.
Source: Vanguard
Health issues concerning women and girls will be on the front burner in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as from May 28-30.
Source: VENTURES AFRICA
“If women want more rights than they got, why don’t they take it and stop talking about taking it.” A century after these words were uttered by Sojourner Truth, men and statistics are quick to point out that women have heed her words.
Source: The Herald
Whoever captures the majority of the women's vote in any election, is guaranteed the right exercise power in a democratic state. What then must be done to be accorded such a vote by women? Women are never persuaded by promises alone but by substantive deeds which yield tangible results.
Source: The New Vision
The story of Allen Bonabana, the mother who died after giving birth quadruplets in Kibaale district, is still fresh in the mind of people in her community.
Source: allAfrica
When 17-year-old Sona Traore represented the Child Protection Network of Liberia at a civil society event organized in conjunction with a three-day United Nations meeting in this capital city earlier this month, she knew she was not speaking for Liberian children alone.
Source: Daily Trust
The 2nd Nigerian Women Transformation Awards Conference and Exhibition (NIWTRACE) 2013 will hold in Abuja between July 24 and 25 at the International Conference Centre.
Source: Frontline Defenders
On 13 and 14 February 2013, peaceful protests held in Harare and Bulawayo by Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) in order to mark Valentine's Day were violently suppressed by police, with over 188 protesters arrested and many others beaten. One member of WOZA remains in detention.