Source: Mail & Guardian
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has called for zero tolerance for violence against women, adding that the pervasiveness of violence against women poses a serious barrier to gender equality.
Source: allAFrica.com
In order to popularise female condoms in Cameroon, local organisations promote them through hair salons, workrooms and other small shops. But instead of selling the condoms, the managers are giving them away to the clients in order to clear their stocks.
Source: IPS Gender Wire
Bookended by the Nov. 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the Dec. 10 International Human Rights Day, the16 Days campaign sinks its gender justice roots deep into scores of countries around the world, where women and their allies are still battling lower wages, sexual abuse, rape as a weapon of war, female genital mutilation and cutting, intimate partner violence, sex-selective abortions, breast ironing, infanticide and much more.
Source: IPS Gender Wire
Agriculture is key to women’s livelihoods in rural West Africa and to the survival of the national economies. But despite women’s crucial work on the farms women’s rights to land ownership, control and access to land continues to be neglected.
It is pitch dark in a village in Kisumu. Ms Peris Akeyo Oyoo is in labour and needs immediate medical attention. But the nearest hospital is three kilometres away and the labour pangs are intense.
Martha Mebrahtu died young, killed by the Ethiopian regime while she and others attempted to liberate their country from misrule. But, as Elyas Mulu Kiros shows, her dream has inspired Ethiopian revolutionaries for decades.
The UK’s first ambassador to South Sudan, Alistair McPhail, has called for a focus upon tackling the country’s violence against women ahead of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Friday.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has arrived in Rwanda for a four-day diplomatic mission focused on economic, agricultural and health development. She says despite impressive growth in these sectors, political life in Rwanda remains, as she puts it, “comparatively closed.”
A Congolese doctor, who has treated thousands of survivors of horrific sexual violence, has called for the government to pay reparations to women raped by soldiers.
In recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, UN Women executive director Michelle Bachelet has unveiled concrete steps her agency is urging global leaders to take in an effort to combat the physical and/or sexual violence that up to 60 percent of women will experience during their lives.
These past few months have seen many advances on women’s participation in post-conflict settings; at least on paper. In September, female world leaders gathered in New York to speak about the benefits of involving women in politics, in particular after war.
A top United Nations official today marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women with a call for solidarity with the survivors of sexual violence in conflict throughout the world.
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has called for zero tolerance for violence against women, adding that the pervasiveness of violence against women poses a serious barrier to gender equality.
While no one formula can deal with every aspect of domestic violence, it cannot make women safer if it is harder for them to bring an attacker to justice.
ABANTU for Development and ActionAid-Ghana have called on government and all political parties to ensure that they maintain their respective commitments of promoting increased women's participation in the electoral process.
Non-Governmental Organizations have been playing crucial roles in the gender issue in Nigeria. They have been networking, sharing strategies, best practices and lobbying the various levels of governments to encourage them to implement resolutions, treaties and international conventions and agreements on women's rights and the advancement of women and girls.
A prominent Egyptian activist says that continued sexual assaults of women protestors shows the Mubarak regime's "culture of violence" towards women remains unchanged in Egypt today.
Source: News 24
A city in Sierra Leone is offering a five-year scholarship to girls who keep their virginity until they complete university. The aim is to cut teenage pregnancies by ensuring "that at least 80% of school going girls keep their virginity until they
Source: News 24
Press watchdog Reporters Without Borders urged media organisations on Friday to take care to protect female reporters from sexual assault while covering unrest in Egypt, following several serious attacks.The group initially warned women journalists not to work in Cairo's Tahrir Square, epicentre of the revolt against Egypt's
Source: Open Democracy
When we're looking for the links between war violence and male violence against women in peace time, we need to look for causality and influence, flowing in both directions, says Cynthia Cockburn.