Source: Vanguard
THE vague fight against the ignorance of skin bleaching among Nigerians has received yet another boost as Bunmi Ogunmoyero, Public Relations student of University of Westminster, UK, launches her campaign "Love the Skin You Are In" to open a new vista of knowledge into how young Nigerians can stop confusing inferiority complex for confidence.
A major new global initiative, the Third Billion Campaign, aimed at expanding women’s employment, access to finance, markets and education, will be launched in New York City on February 1, 2012. The initiative of La Pietra Coalition, the Third Billion Campaign is spearheading the decade long campaign to galvanize corporations and NGO’s all over the world to tap into women’s economic potential as employees, entrepreneurs, producers and consumers.
Zhang Daliu, 46, a carpenter from China never imagined himself in the dreadful confines of a stinking and overcrowded Zambian jail where conditions are so terrible that they lead to gastronomic disorders and skin diseases within days of confinement.
Last week, tens of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo on the one-year anniversary of the 2011 revolt. With Islamists winning nearly half of the seats in Parliament recently, some Iranian women caution their Egyptian counterparts to learn from their revolution, after which they say they lost rights with the formation of an extreme Islamic state.
Source: AllAfrica
While launching its elections assistance project with the theme 'Breaking barriers: Empowering women to register to vote, the 50/50 Group of Sierra Leone has urged all women in the country to go out in their numbers and register for the forthcoming November 17 elections.
A highly anticipated election for the position of African Union Commission chairperson petered out into a stalemate after four rounds of voting failed to conclusively reveal a winner. But it wasn’t quite a damp squib. Quite the contrary, actually: the election served up all the drama of a World Cup semi-final. By KHADIJA PATEL and SIMON ALLISON.
Recent Nobel Prize laureate, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, today assumed the chair of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) (http://www.alma2015.org) from President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of the United Republic of Tanzania. President Armando Guebuza of Mozambique was elected Deputy Chair of ALMA.
UN panel calls for sustainable development indicators that factor in poverty, inequality, science and gender equality. Social and environmental costs need to be integrated into measurement of economic activity, a new UN report said on Monday as it urged world leaders to focus on the long-term resilience of the planet and its people.
Source: The New Times
Officials from the Gender Monitoring Office (GMO) have tasked local authorities to educate the local population on matrimonial regimes and successions in order to stamp out gender based violence.
Source: FOROYAA
The 39 members of the Solidarity for African Women's Rights Coalition (SOAWR) based in 18 African countries have condemned the stripping of women wearing trousers and short skirts by male vendors in three major cities in Malawi namely Lilongwe, Mzuzu and Blantyre.
Source: IPS
For most Ugandan women, obtaining a commercial loan to start a business has been very difficult. Many do not have the required collateral of land title deeds and many cannot afford the interest rates charged by commercial banks.
Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has opted to come clean over her role in the country’s civil war.
The 39 members of the Solidarity for African Women's Rights Coalition based in 18 African countries have vehemently condemned the stripping of women wearing trousers and short skirts by male vendors in three major cities in Malawi - Lilongwe, Mzuzu and Blantyre.
Guinea's Social Affairs Ministry has adopted a National Gender Policy (PNG) document which is meant to protect the rights of women in the country.
OVER A YEAR has passed since Tunisian fruit and vegetable trader Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation kick-started a series of protests that brought down the leaders of four states in a series of popular uprisings termed ‘the Arab Spring’.
Libya's ruling National Transitional Council said it adopted on Saturday a new electoral law on the basis of which the North African country will form its first constituent assembly in June.
Speech by Ms. Lakshmi Puri Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director UN Women at the initial consultations on the Zero Draft of the Rio+20 Outcome Document, New York, 25 January 2012.
Very few female candidates ran in the nation’s parliamentary elections and even fewer have been elected: 10 took the oath last Monday.
Source: BBC World
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged African leaders to respect gay rights.
Discrimination based on sexual orientation had been ignored or even sanctioned by many states for too long, Mr Ban told an African Union summit.
Source: The Observer
Often, women who face domestic violence fear to come out because of stigma and other reasons.