Source: New Vision
THE inter-Parliamentary Union has urged member states to ensure free access to vaccines and medicines to protect women and children from diseases.
Source: ZimEve
The first female president in Malawi is set to take over the reigns of power following the sudden death of the country's president, Bingu Wa Mutharika, aged 78.
Source: OpenDemocracy
Women played a largely unreported role in last year's revolution in Libya. Now they have to fight both Islamist and secular men if they're to have any influence in the new Libya, says Lindsey Hilsum.
Source: IPS
Though United Nations experts agree that governments should focus on empowering girls and women as a key to managing a world of seven billion people, not enough is being done for women's rights in developing countries, aid advocates say.
Source: Daily Trust
About 300 rural women will benefit from shops to be built at the ultra-modern motor park which is under construction at Bwari.
Source: New Times
Women working in the public sector represent 45.5 per cent, latest figures from the National Institute of Statistics (NISR) indicate.
Source: ANGOP
The chairperson of the Women Parliamentarians Group, Rodeth Teresa Makina Gil, said Thursday in Luanda that the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) has given women the opportunity to rise in various sectors of the professional and public activity.
Source: The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Leaders of nearly 120 national parliaments attending a major meeting here this week resolved to prioritize action and resources for improving the health of women and children.
Source: The Star
MORE than 50 per cent of men and women in urban areas have misconceptions about the use of family planning methods.
Source: UNHCR
Sister Angelique is a familiar sight as she bicycles around the dusty town of Dungu on her way to meet women who really do see her as a blessing.
Sourece: ANGOP
The experience of the Angolan women in politics must be utilised by other countries as they have made relevant progresses in terms of equality of rights in comparison with men.
Source: Vanguard
The Plateau State Government is to provide free medical care to pregnant women, children under five years and elderly people from 60 years and above in the state.
Source: Allafrica.com
Picture yourself in a room with 30 other women - knowing that one of you will die during pregnancy or childbirth. That's not a concept for a macabre TV show - unless it's reality TV.
Souce: Angola Press
Luanda - A delegation of the Organization of Angolan Women (OMA), headed by its secretary general, Luzia Ingles "Inga", travelled Thursday to Brazil, where they will participate in the XV Congress of the Women International Democratic Federation (WIDF), running from 06 to 12 April in the city of Brasilia.
Monitors of the convoluted, drawn-out Zimbabwean crisis will be forgiven for thinking that little has changed, despite the fact that the South African-brokered Global Political Agreement (GPA) signed in September 2008 and initiated in February 2009 remains in place.
Source: Sowetan
WOMEN need to be encouraged not just to occupy management positions in companies but also to start their own ventures. South African women make up approximately half of the country's workforce and play a crucial role in the economy.
Source: ElectionGuide Digest
In the Spring of 2011, the world watched with excitement as decades old dictatorships toppled to popular uprisings in the Middle East. Women were at the forefront of these movements, often leading protests, marches, and social media campaigns to change course and resist the old regimes. In Tunisia and Egypt, old governments crumbled and now, new constitutions are being drafted. Across the rest of the Arab world, elections are being scheduled on candidates and issues to accommodate protester’s demands. Beginning in September, at least half a dozen countries in the region will host elections, including Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Morocco. Egypt in particular will host parliamentary elections in November.
A former Minister of Women Affairs and Youth Development, Hajia Aisha Ismail, speaks with LEADERSHIP’s SA’ADATU SHUAIBU, on the challenges facing women in Nigerian politics.
Source: New York Daily News
$32 billion is being earned every year by unscrupulous criminals running human trafficking networks. The U.N. crime-fighting office said Tuesday that 2.4 million people across the globe are victims of human trafficking at any one time, and 80 percent of them are being exploited as sexual slaves.
Women in Mining, which includes women in small to medium mining enterprises, says the government should allocate claims in Chiadzwa, in the eastern part of the country, to women. The group says calls for access Marange and other major mining concerns have so far fallen on deaf ears.