Source: VOA
Health authorities say 70,000 children are born HIV-positive in Nigeria every year, and one-fourth of them don't live past their first birthday. While some officials say they want to make Nigeria one of Africa's first nations to give birth to a generation of HIV-free babies, activists say poverty, stigma and a lack of government support make that goal lofty, if not impossible.
Source: AlertNet
African leaders should increase funding for contraceptive services if they want to reduce poverty and hunger, the prime ministers of Ethiopia and Rwanda said ahead of an international summit on family planning.
Source: Xperedon
Dates set for Nobel Prize 2012 announcements but what about an African midwife as a future winner?
The date is now released for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize announcement...
Meanwhile, a humanitarian charity is stepping up its campaign for an African midwife to be honoured in the future...
Source: AllAfrica
The Summit on Family Planning drew policy makers, donors and health professionals to London on 11 July to discuss how to provide access to contraceptives to more of the world's poorest women who want them. The goal going forward is to enable an additional 120 million women in poor countries to use modern family methods. Organizers say this will save the lives of 200,000 women who will otherwise die from pregnancy or childbirth; prevent 110 million unwanted pregnancies; result in 50 million fewer abortions; and save the lives of three million babies.
Source: allAfrica
The Nigeria Labour Congress will convene a national peace summit to address the country's security challenges come August, NLC president, Abulwahed Omar, has said.
"I am not sure, we have not taken a date," the NLC president told delegates at the National Women Conference of the NLC at the women development Center in Abuja today, "but definitely may be its is not going to go outside August. We are going to convene this very important peace summit. And we do believe that we are going to make the difference. Comrades, if you remember, with all that was said and done until labour now convened a similar summit and some workshops for the Niger Delta issue before we started having lasting solution."
Source: Institute for Security Studies
The United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is underway at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 2-27 July 2012 to negotiate what is seen as the most important initiative ever regarding conventional arms regulation within the United Nations (UN).
Source: Institute for Security Studies
The United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is underway at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 2-27 July 2012 to negotiate what is seen as the most important initiative ever regarding conventional arms regulation within the United Nations (UN).
Source: All Africa
THE NEED to have a violence-free election in December 2012 in Ghana is of utmost importance to Ghanaians, institutions and developing partners at large.
Source: All Africa
Market gardening in the peri-urban areas of Conakry, the Guinean capital, is growing quickly, bringing in income for groups of women and giving them some autonomy.
Source: All Africa
"Tunisia is called to promote the quality of tourist services and diversify a typically Tunisian product without seeking to attract more tourists," underlined Federal Secretary of State in the German Ministry in charge of Economic Co-operation and Development Gudrun Kopp.
Source: The New Times
Today is the 22nd annual World Population Day, and this year's theme is 'Universal Access to Reproductive Health Services'. The theme is also in line with the Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5), which is to 'Achieve Universal Access to Reproductive Health by 2015.'
According to information accessed online, women and children account for almost 80 per cent of the casualties of conflict and war. They also account for 80 per cent of the 40 million refugees in the world. During war situations, women and children suffer sexual abuse and their bodies are considered as commodities that can be traded with. The impact of war on children is also profound.
Forum highlights best practices generating large scale employment and decent work for women. As the global economy struggles to recover from the impacts of the financial crisis, UN Women is calling for the urgent enforcement of policies and practices that ensure more women enter the labor market in jobs with decent working conditions and social protections.
Source: UN News Service
The top United Nations envoy in Libya today said the country's weekend election - its first free poll in almost half a century - was an "extraordinary achievement" and praised electoral authorities for organizing them efficiently, while also highlighting challenges an incoming government will face, foremost among them building security institutions.
Source: All Africa
TANZANIA in general and Zanzibar in particular approved liberal economic policy in the 1980s as its economic driving force and ended decades of state-controlled economy.
Source: All Africa
Mufti of the Republic Dr. Ali Gomaa on Friday 06/07/2012 said that controversial "slavery marriage" or (melk al-yameen' marriage) is illegal, describing it as "adultery".
Raising this issue aims at spreading confusion among citizens by the enemies of Islam, Gomaa said during Friday prayer sermon in a mosque in the Sixth of October city.
Source: All Africa
WOMEN farmers have formed a trust to address challenges affecting them in the agricultural sector.
The Zimbabwe Indigenous Women Farmers Trust was formed in February this year after realisation that women were failing to use land due to limited resources.
The Women Peace and Security Institute (WPSI) of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Women Ghana Office and African Women's Active Nonviolence initiatives for Social change (AWANICh) has organised a one-day workshop to commemorate the 2012 Women Peace and Security Day in Accra.
The mere recognition of women's rights is not enough, says President Jacob Zuma.
Adeola Ogunlade, who attended a recent dialogue writes on the involvement of Nigerian women in democratic process