LATTER day court-jesters have dubbed her the minister of everything but men, but Lulama Xingwana has a serious dream that all South Africans ought to share.
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South Sudan is one of the world's toughest places to live, as anyone who visits the country will notice immediately. Grinding poverty is everywhere, and people struggle to survive without roads, water, electricity, and basic services. Some of the cruelest realities of life there, however, are less visible to the foreign observer – and as such are rarely mentioned on the international scene. One of those is violence against women.
Source: Al Jazeera
This article isn't about elections. In fact, passing a pleasant but rather uneventful summer on holiday in Libya, I felt no compulsion or desire to say anything about the country's recent elections, which went better than anyone had anticipated, barring a handful of incidents that were quickly contained.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met schoolgirls and Africa's second woman president during an unprecedented visit to Malawi Sunday before jetting to South Africa to visit Nelson Mandela.
Soon after Nellipe Mtete's husband died in Rumphi over 70km from Mzuzu city in northern Malawi her in-laws agreed to snatch away the 36 acres of land she had for many years with her late spouse produced crops for food and sale from. Mtete however, still possesses the land where she grows maize, potatoes, soya beans, tobacco with her children.
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Government must now declare a National State of Emergency on rape.
Source: The Guardian
The issues of improving girls' education and women's access to justice are central to efforts to end the coerced sterilisation of women with HIV, says a South African lawyer who is supporting efforts to end the practice in her country.
A new constitution for Somalia has been overwhelmingly adopted by the country's 825-member National Constituent Assembly after a week of debate.
A Sudanese woman accused of adultery has been sentenced to death by stoning and is being held shackled with her six-month-old baby in jail, activists said on Wednesday, in the second such sentence in the past few months in the country.
The Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS) says Southern Africa is making marked progress in terms of both the number of women in security service institutions and the number of women deployed in UN peace missions.
Smallholder farms are creating jobs for women in poverty stricken communities, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Thursday.
Source: South Africa Government News Agency
The Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities, Lulu Xingwana, has called for "gender responsive" budgeting that can be used as a tool to promote the socio-economic rights of women, children and people with disabilities.
In 2008 the Southern Africa Development Community's (SADC) Heads of State and Government adopted the SADC Gender and Development Protocol. This Protocol consists of 28 Articles, with specified indicators, designed to promote gender equality by 2015.
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Dakar — A record number of women were sworn in as legislators as Senegal's new parliament was inaugurated on Monday.Sixty-four women now have seats in this West African country's 150-member National Assembly, thanks to a law on gender parity.
Source: African Elections Project
Libya's Parliamentary results released last Tuesday indicates that 32 women were elected from the parties and one an independent candidate, said Samira Massoud, acting president of the Libyan Women's Union (a growing national organization with membership in the thousands).
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The overwhelming approval of a Provisional Constitution for Somalia by the representative body convened for that purpose – a key step toward ending the Horn of Africa country’s long transition to stable governance – was hailed today by United Nations officials.
Mrs. Grace Ayuba was enjoying the shed provided her by a Mango tree, where she was resting to regain her strength with her a local drink, (kunin Zaki), after working in her farm for seven straight hours. She was beginning to get drifted with the soothing relief from the drink when suddenly,
A year and a half after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the fight for women’s rights continues in Egypt as debate cycles through the international media. Within “The Voice and the Veil,” GlobalPost wanted some of those who engage in the fight for women’s rights on a daily basis to lead part of the conversation. To this end, we brought together two generations of Egyptian feminists who have been part of this revolution since the beginning.
Speaking for the first time since her election to the chair of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma told a gathering of the ANC Women's League that she would not be a lackey of South Africa's own interests in her new position.
Nine women in the northern Côte d’Ivoire town of Katiola have been convicted for carrying out female genital mutilation – the first time that a 1998 law banning FGM has been applied.