Freetown — The campaign to have female genital mutilation (FGM) outlawed in Sierra Leone seems to have taken a nose-dive with Bondo initiators - known locally as 'Soweis' - apparently continuing to have the upper hand in this struggle to eliminate a practice
Three years ago, Munit* was hungry, lonely and HIV-positive; her husband refused to be tested and she felt burdened by her secret status, unable to share her daily struggles with friends and family.
Source: Daily Nation
Many Kenyans support the constitutional provision that women form at least a third of MPs in the next Parliament, a new opinion poll has revealed.
Source: Nairobi Star
A majority of Kenyans would vote for a female MP or Councilor candidate if elections were held today. According to a survey by Infortrak Harris only 26% of Kenyans are against women candidates.
Source: The Independent
THE inauguration of the Government of Nation Unity (GNU) in early 2009 raised expectations regarding the role of women in Zimbabwe's new political dispensation. With women comprising more than 52% of the population
Source: FOROYAA
A one day sensitization of political parties on women's political representation organised by the Female Lawyers Association, (FLAG) in collaboration with the inter-party committee comprising all political parties took place
Source: Nairobi Star
A gender-based violence recovery centre has been launched in Nakuru. The centre is equipped with recovery, counselling and consultation sections.
Source: IFJ
An all -African conference on Gender and Media opened today in Kigali, Rwanda, to debate ways of redressing challenges facing African female journalists at the workplace across Africa.
Source: Awareness News
One Family People (OFP), a local non-governmental organisation, has engaged service providers on a one-day dialogue forum on Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV)
Source: Mail & Guardian
The latest legal skeleton to fall out of the cupboard of President Jacob Zuma's favoured candidate for chief justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, is that he handed down two controversial judgments on marital rape while he was a high court judge.
Source: New Vision
As the war in Libya rages on and as the television pictures capture what is happening, one particular section of the society is missing in action—where are the women?
Source: The Citzen
Monica Gaimo is that rare breed: A woman who runs a successful construction company. She has more than 200 employees and earns her living building roads, bridges, large houses and other things to do with bricks and mortar.
Source: RNW
In Guinea, the family of the woman who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault feel the dropping of charges against him is injust, but said Wednesday it was in God's hands.
While Tunisia's revolution successfully ousted Ben Ali, women's rights could now be in jeopardy. For 55 years, Tunisia celebrated Women's Day every August 13, representing the push for gender equality that has been one of the hallmarks of the North African nation's post-colonial era.
Source: All Africa
There are six Kenyans who are currently in the world's limelight, and for once, they are not members of the Ocampo Six.
Amina Abdalla, a 45-year-old mother of seven, lives in northern Kenya's Marsabit District, where life is a daily struggle for scarce water and pasture.
“The main issue for many women in Zimbabwe is politically motivated violence. And it is not just rape that we are talking about. We are talking about beating and violent sexual assault of women, just because they vote for a party of their choice,” says Zimbabwean women’s rights activist and filmmaker Kudakwashe Chitsike from the Research and Advocacy Unit.
Source: IRIN News
Amina Abdalla, a 45-year-old mother of seven, lives in northern Kenya's Marsabit District, where life is a daily struggle for scarce water and pasture.
Source: SACSIS
In 2008 hundreds of South African women donned their miniskirts and protested at the taxi rank where a young girl was brutally accosted by taxi drivers and hawkers for wearing a short denim skirt.
Source: IPS
Marguerite Kassa feared she would find herself alone in the small crowd of a dozen other pregnant women at the integrated health centre in Mossendjo, in the southwestern Republic of Congo.