Source: The New Age
UmlaziI township, south of Durban, is a hot spot for rape and domestic violence against women and children.
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Source: The Post Online
WOMEN and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA) acting national coordinator Hope Kumalo says the Anti-Gender Based Violence Act has the potential to address gender violence in communities.
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Source: All Africa
A group of teachers and students from Alliance Girls High School and Dartmouth University in the United States have launched an anti-Female Genital Mutilation campaign in Marakwet district.
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Source: All AfricaFor 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
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Source: BBC News
Kenya's coalition government wants to drop the new constitutional requirement that women should make up a third of MPs in parliament.
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Source: DailyTrust
As part of its Corporate and Social Responsibility, Unilever said it has set aside N40 million to empower and create favourable living environment for women in the society.
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Source: BuaNewsPublic Protector Advocate Thuli Madonsela has called on women to promote good governance to help pave the way for the advancement of other women.
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Source: Huffington Post
As more women in developing nations are empowered to promote their own advancement and security, NGOs can't forget those who have the power to instantly change the treatment of women -- men.
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Source: The HeraldThe media have written endless stories on the monster. Police have received many reports. The courts have also been laden with many cases. Many women have lost their lives leaving behind children some as young as two months. Many cases have gone unreported with some being swept under the carpet, the victims suffering in silence.
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Source: SowetanPUBLIC Protector Thuli Madonsela has called on women in public life to use their positions to advance the course of justice, freedom and constitutionalism in honour of struggle heroines such as the late Albertina Sisulu.
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Source: ABC OnlineThe most devastating drought for decades is currently facing the Horn of Africa. Somalia has been the worst hit and, as is so often the case, famine has led to armed conflict and instability in this fragile region.
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Source: All Africa
Ignorance of laws and individual rights is among the major challenges in Rwanda's effort to prevent Gender Based Violence (GBV), a Gender Monitoring Office (GMO) report has established.
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Source: This Day Live
Chairman, House of Representatives Ad hoc Commi-ttee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele, has concluded plans to sponsor a Paycheque Fairness and Violence against Women Bills
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Source: All Africa
PAN Nigeria Limited, manufacturers of Peugeot brand cars yesterday graduated another set of female mechanics.
The Managing Director of PAN, Alhaji Shehu Sani Dauda said the company would continue to provide the training platform
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Source: Africa News
Having slept with hundreds of men, exposed to drugs, Beatrice Chanda's life was condemned to nothing. The possibility of her living a normal marriage life after so many years in prostitution, to anyone seemed impossible.
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Source: IPS
Ester Abeja has experienced both physical and emotional atrocities. She was captured by Uganda's feared rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and was forced to join them.
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Source: The ZimbabwenNyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, a Zimbabwean human rights activist who grew up in Murewa, is the General Secretary of the World Young Women's Christian Association and is the recent recipient of the Women’s Human Rights Defenders Award. She spoke to Grace Chirumanzu from her base in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Source: IRINInternational funding for HIV fell by 10 percent in 2010 from the previous year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation and UNAIDS; activists worry that a continued reduction will undermine progress in global HIV prevention and treatment efforts.
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Source: Huffington Post As more women in developing nations are empowered to promote their own advancement and security, NGOs can't forget those who have the power to instantly change the treatment of women -- men.
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