Source: All Africa
After decades of marginalisation, South Sudanese women may soon be able to lead a normal life now that their country has gained independence and ended years of conflict with North Sudan.
Source: All Africa
Can vaccinating pregnant women against the flu protect their newborn babies from getting the influenza virus? Well, that's exactly what a clinical study in three countries, including South Africa, wants to find out.
"It takes courage to stand up and stand out," said Irene Pieters on Monday night at the Grace Hotel in Rosebank, Johannesburg, as she accepted accolades along with her partner Dee Boehner from emcee Alan Ford at the Glamour Women of the Year awards.
Source: Agencia AngolaPress
The deputy chairperson of the Pan-African Women Organisation for Southern Africa, Carolina Cerqueira, Thursday in Sumbe, Kwanza Sul province, urged women to invest in their education so they become fit to contribute to the country’s reconstruction and development.
Ruth Zozi, 47, dreams of becoming a member of Parliament, MP, and representing her constituency. But she says there are three factors that will never allow her dream to come true: She is illiterate. She is poor. She is a woman.
UN Women is supporting a project in Rwanda to provide legal and medical services to widows who survived the 1994 genocide. The project specifically focuses on providing services to widows with HIV/AIDS, thousands of who were
Source: WFP
Women as head of the household : During a monitoring visit, the team met Khadijatou, one of the refugee living in the camp for 36 years. She describes how was her life and how it get improved thanks to humanitarian assistance
The principle of gender equality has found more space in several societies over the last two decades and, has begun to underpin all aspects of national development.
Source: All Africa
Technology for Women in Business (TWIB), an initiative of the Department of Trade and Industry (the DTI), is a national programme that facilitates access to science and technology for business women in order to accelerate business growth
27 July 2011 – Allegations of sexual abuse by soldiers serving in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have declined by 75 per cent since 2008, the commander of the force said today, noting that
On the road between the Kenyan and Somali border lie the dead bodies of children who have succumbed to the famine and the hardships of making the journey from their drought-stricken villages to Kenya.
After several appeals by the UN and other aid agencies, the international community is rallying to feed an estimated 11.6 million people facing starvation in the Horn of Africa.
Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf pledged on Tuesday to step up the fight against unemployment in her West African nation if re-elected later this year, saying in an interview she was confident of securing a second term.
After walking for days to escape drought and insecurity, often barefoot and with almost no food or water, Somali refugees who arrive at Dadaab camps in northern Kenya are met with delays and red tape.
Source: HRW
Authorities in Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria should investigate and close down networks that traffic Nigerian women and girls to Côte d'Ivoire for forced prostitution, Human Rights Watch said today.
Source: Mail&Guardian
Angolan security forces are waging a campaign of terror -- including sexual abuse -- on Congolese migrants who cross the border illegally looking for work, aid agencies have claimed.
Source: Daily Nation
In Kenya, there is an estimated 7,000 new obstetric fistula cases each year - thousands of these are yet to get treatment.
Rwanda is the first country in the world where women outnumber men in parliament, with women occupying 45 out of 80 seats. However, despite this, experts say that the country still needs a gender equality perspective on how national resources and programmes are implemented.
The tradition of inheritance from father to son in many societies coupled with a reliance on boys to provide economic support, to ensure security in old age and to perform death rites are part of a set of social norms that place greater value on sons than daughters.
15 women who have been receiving training on handicraft, including weaving in the Halib-Mentel Nuns Association in Elaberad sub-zone for one year graduated.