Source: RNW
In Cameroon, parents use various methods to delay the sexual development of teenagers. Some massage the developing breasts of young girls, a technique also known as the "repassage des seins", or the ironing of breasts.
Source: Guardian
Women are not forbidden from riding bicycles in Zimbabwe. But the absence of women on bicycles in our village led me to believe that they were.
Source: UN News Centre
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon once again today stressed the need to accelerate efforts to accomplish the global poverty eradication and social development targets, urging all partners, including the private sector and civil society, to work with governments to ensure the goals are achieved by the 2015 deadline.
Source: All Africa
So the Cabinet thinks that the requirement of no more than two-thirds of either gender in any elected body is "technically impossible to achieve under the current stipulation".
Source: Commonwealth News
Commonwealth Chair-in-Office Kamla Persad-Bissessar to raise awareness on women’s leadership role at UN General Assembly event.
Source: Angola Press
The secretary general of the ruling MPLA party's women wing (OMA), Luzia Inglês "Inga", said Friday in Luanda that discrimination against women participation in decision-making organs has been overcome,
Source: Alert Net
Fawzia Mahmoud Saeed is driven by a desire to help those most at risk from landmines and unexploded ordnance – and to contribute to a better future for women and children in eastern Sudan.
Source: All Africa
The Federal Government will soon introduce labour-saving technologies for female farmers in the country to boost agricultural production.
Source: All Africa
While remarkable progress has been registered, reports of cases of abuse, mainly from rural communities, still appear in the media more often than not.
Source: The Southern Times
In many cultures, premarital sex has for long been a taboo, but things are changing. More and more, young people are engaging in sex while still in school or soon after completing their basic studies.
Source: All Africa
For a woman who lives in the urban centre, has education, a job and a gainfully employed spouse- living on two incomes guarantees a sense of safety. For the rural woman, who performs unpaid household chores, has no education or any steady income or nutritious meal, and a spousal relation with a man of no means- life is a risk each and every hour.
Source: All Africa
Federal Government has appealed to states to commit their resources to gender education issues to fast track Nigeria meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
Source: All Africa
The women's lobby in Luangwa District has expressed happiness at the higher participation of women in this year's elections in Feira Constituency.Luangwa District women's lobby coordinator, Naomi Namula her organisation was impressed become more women had stepped forward to contest the elections.