Source: Nairobie Star
Two out of the eight judges who have applied for the post of Chief Justice are women as are ten out of the 12 applicants for the Deputy Chief Justice's post. This is the highest number of women to apply for top posts in the Judiciary.
Source: IRIN
Ivoirians who have fled across the border to Liberia have reported incidents of rape, sexual abuse and murder to NGOs and human rights groups working in Grand Geddeh and Nimba counties.
Source: World Food Programme
Like many other women in her village, Elise spends all of her energy providing for her family. Thanks to the Lowlands Management Project, she can now afford education and health care for her six children.
Source: UN WOMEN
Keynote address delivered by UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet at the 5th Global Colloquium of University Presidents, University of Pennsylvania, 5 April 2011.
Source: United Nations Informations Centres
Taking advantage of their presence in New Delhi to participate in a Peacekeeping Vision 2015 Seminar hosted by the United Services Institution of India, UNIC New Delhi organized a press conference on 6 April 2011 with DPKO ASG Anthony Banbury and Margot Wallström, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict.
Source: UN WOMEN
Political participation, economic empowerment and ending violence against women emphasized as key to gender equality in meetings with US legislators
Source: IRIN
When IRIN/PlusNews recently visited Nuna Kahiro, 75, in Kenya's Rift Valley town of Nakuru, she asked the same question she asks everyone who visits: "Did you bring me anything to eat?"
SOURCE: allAfrica
THAT women got only 96 out of 1531 elective positions available in the 2007 elections in Nigeria in 2007 is a big concern to major international non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
THAT women got only 96 out of 1531 elective positions available in the 2007 elections in Nigeria in 2007 is a big concern to major international non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Source: Human Rights Watch
Libyan authorities should immediately allow Eman al-‘Obeidy, the woman who alleged that she was raped by Muammar Gaddafi's security forces, to leave Tripoli for her safety and to receive medical care, Human Rights Watch said today.
Source: NewVision
A delegation from Swaziland is in the country to learn from Uganda's experience in integrating microfinance services into HIV interventions.
Source: IRIN
The evening meal will be stewed leaves tasting somewhat like spinach, which the women pick every morning, yet crops were standing tall before the leafhoppers flew into Zinder in Niger and devoured anything green. The official response to a region on the edge of survival has been slow, but then the women went to see the Prefect.
Source: IRIN
At least 45 people are behind bars in Malawi on charges of witchcraft, although there is nothing in the country's laws to keep them there.
Source: allAfrica
After leaving her husband behind to protect their home, Philomene Eholi* recently fled the Ivory Coast with her mother and 11 children.
Source: UN WOMEN
UN Women Executive Director Ms. Michelle Bachelet has raised concerns over insecurity facing Somali women and girls in refugee camps in Kenya.
Source: IPS
Some 14 months after Haiti's earthquake, activists say there is an ongoing epidemic of rape and gender-based violence (GBV) in the country's more than 1,000 squalid displaced persons camps, where nearly a million people are still awaiting permanent housing.
Source: Huffington Post
Formalities don't bother Cherie Blair. For Metro's interview, she arrived a couple of minutes late, but immediately apologized - her iPhone was broken and needed to be fixed. (She owns an iPad, too.) Mrs. Blair, professionally known as Cherie Booth, has gone down in history as Britain's perhaps most controversial First Lady, mocked for everything from her career ambitions to her clothes and her working-class background. In person, though, she's affable and witty.
Source: UN Information Centres
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Sahle-Work Zewde of Ethiopia as the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON).
Source: UNESCO
UNESCO and GEMS Education, owner and operator of over 100 international schools worldwide, have joined forces to tackle looming teacher shortages in developing countries. Under the partnership, UNESCO will receive US$1 million over four years from GEMS to implement teacher training programmes that also promote girls’ and women’s education.
Source: United Nations Human Rights Council
A group of UN human rights experts warned Friday about the serious human rights violations in Côte d'Ivoire, including enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, killing and maiming of children, and sexual violence.
Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ; UN Women; United Nations World Food Programme
The heads of three United Nations agencies today expressed deep concern about the living conditions of more than 314,000 Somali refugees during a visit to three camps in Dadaab in northeastern Kenya. More refugees are arriving daily, crowding more people into one of the largest refugee concentrations in the world.