Source: Eyewitness News
The South African Institute of Race Relations on Monday said there has been a steady increase in the number of women taking up positions at all three levels of government.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
VICTIMS of Gender Based Violence (GBV), parents, and activists have now joined to raise their voices against police and judiciary ostensibly for failing to deliver justice on cases related to abuse.
Source: Gender Links
The upsurge in the number of strikes in recent months in South Africa, from mines to farms, in what others have termed the “strike season” have one common characteristic. Very few women are seen on the front lines of the protests and trade unions still have a “male face.”
Source: allAfrica
The African Union (AU) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, but instead of looking back, the current chair, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, seems intent on casting her vision ahead to an Africa 50 years from now. Her hope is that it will be "a prosperous Africa at peace with itself".
Source: WNN
The United Nations human rights chief today urged all parties in Egypt to engage in dialogue and stop the use of excessive force, following five days of protests that have resulted in dozens of deaths and led the Government to declare a state of emergency.
Source: Daily Monitor
The International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict yesterday called on the African Union to prioritise conflict-related rape, saying it was a barrier in building peace and security.Source: Times of Zambia
THE United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) has called for increased personal commitment among African leaders to improve maternal health on the continent.
Source: Times of Zambia
A DELEGATION of women's rights activists attending the 20th African Union (AU) Summit have called on all Heads of State to make stronger commitments to stop rising cases of rape and conflict.
Source: The News
Deputy Internal Affairs Minister for Operations Rennie Jackson has lauded the Ministry of Gender & Development for empowering more women through its program.
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have been urged to prioritize women reproductive health and children malnutrition in the post 2015 development agenda.
Source: The News
A Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in the United States of America has told the Constitution Review Committee of Liberia that a constitution would not be democratic unless its revision considers women participation.
Source: Radio Dabanga
A women’s political alliance is asking for the release of at least 70 female prisoners transferred last month from a jail in Kadugli to the central prison in El Obeid, capital of North Kordofan.
Source: Rwanda Focus
As the struggle to fight gender-based violence (GBV) has remained steadfast, activism needs to go further than awareness campaigns - changes should be implemented through economic, social and development policy and the full costs of GBV need to be measured and recognized.
Source: SAnews
South Africa must address gender inequalities which make women more vulnerable to sexual and gender-based crimes, Justice and Constitutional Development Deputy Minister Andries Nel says.
Source: The New Vision
President Yoweri Yoweri Museveni has held talks with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Source: The New Zealand Herald
Don't hail a taxi. That was the first piece of advice I was given by friends when I arrived in Cairo last week. They explained that because of a spate of well publicised sexual abuse cases and harassment of both Western and Egyptian women after some shocking incidents in Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the revolution, it was wise to err on the side of caution.
Source: Bloomberg
At least 19 women were severely sexually assaulted or raped in Cairo’s Tahrir Square during the second anniversary of Egypt’s uprising, in what rights groups say was the highest reported toll in the country in two years.
THERE is no denying the importance of the role of Libya’s youth in the February 17 Revolution, just as there is no denying the role of women in the Revolution. These were in effect the drivers of Libya’s Revolution – inseparable and fundamental.
Source: AfriqueJet
UNFPA chief says family planning central to African women's well-being - Ensuring availability of family planning services and their acceptability to every woman, man and to young people, would improve the health of mothers and children in Africa, besides saving health care systems unnecessary expenditure, according to Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
Source:allAfrica
President Jacob Zuma says despite South Africa being the last country to launch the Campaign for Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA), the country was set on using every opportunity to achieve the targets set out by the strategy.