Source: The Observer
Women in Uganda will now access Microgynon Fe, one of the world's most widely used contraceptives, at an affordable price.
Source: allAfrica.com
Kenya has been ranked top globally for making the highest number of reforms to enable women prosper economically. According to the 2012 Women, Business and the Law report by the World Bank , the country came first out of 141 economies in easing women's access to property, job opportunities, credit among other rights.
Source: The New Times
Honestly, when the newscasts started streaming in about this year's winners, my conscience pointed to something gone amiss in the selection process.
Source: New Era
The Windhoek Magistrate's Court on Monday postponed to November 22 the criminal case in which a police officer is accused of raping a 24-year-old woman and a 15-year-old girl who used to stay with him at his house.
Source: Daily Nation
Interviews closed on Tuesday for the National Gender and Equality Commission chairperson and member.
Source: IRIN News
Daniel Soadava and Samoela Razafindramboho are known as "the mean women" in Antalaha, a small town on the east coast of Madagascar. "Men complain that we are always saying bad things about them," they laugh.
Source: Angola Press
Staff of the second infantry division of the northern military region of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) Wednesday in Malanje were informed about the Law Against Domestic Violence, during a lecture sponsored by the provincial department of family and women promotion.
SOURCE: (WNN) MADAGASCAR-Womennewsnetwork
A 38-year-old woman named Say Louise from Ilafitsignana, Madacascar has happy memories of childhood, when her father’s job with the port management authority in Fort Dauphin (and later his farming and fishing) provided for all the family’s needs. Harvests and fish were plentiful.
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Source: The Interpreter
One of the imponderables this early in the life of the Arab Spring is the degree to which the political upheavals will result in substantive, rather than cosmetic, improvements to women's political roles in the Arab world.
Source: OpenDemocracy
“We have included the Arab Spring in this prize, but we have put it in a particular context. Namely, if one fails to include the women in the revolution and the new democracies, there will be no democracy.” Thorbjoern Jagland, chair of the Nobel Prize Committee.
Source: John K.Abimanyi-All Africa.com
If a woman was raped somewhere in your neighbourhood, you can bet your lunch, somebody out there will raise their vindictive finger of blame and unwaveringly, point it straight at the woman, her dressing to be exact.
Source: AWID
In 2003, Sylvia Tamale was named as the “Worst Woman of the Year” by a conservative bloc within Uganda. Working at the time as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Makerere University (she later became its Dean), she was vilified for weeks within one of Kampala’s major daily newspapers, New Vision, as responsible for everything from the moral degeneration of the nation to the reason Ugandan teenagers were going to go to hell.