After five days of travel, including a gorgeous but hot, dusty, bumpy, and nearly eight-hour drive from the city of Bukavu, I arrived today in Baraka, South Kivu, in the war-ravaged eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Source: The Nigerian Observer
The issue of women’s participation in the political processes of societies, especially democratic ones, is one that has engaged the attention of scholars and researchers (Mcclsky, 1968, Stacey and Price, 1981, Welch 1980, Ifamose 2000 and Makinde 2000). Some studies on the role of Nigerian Women’s participation in politics have come to establish that the level has varied over time.
Source: WorldStage
President Good luck Jonathan on Thursday restated his determination to get Nigeria out of the shackles of poverty and transform the country into a more cherished environment that thrives with meek and honey.
Source: NewsDay
“As a mother it is not easy to accept that you have actually given birth to a disabled child. It is traumatic, especially if the child is your first born,” said Margaret Mugwisi, a committee member for Batsiranai in Dzivaresekwa, a women’s group that assists mothers with disabled children cope with socio-economic and emotional challenges.
Source: Open Society Foundation
Source: Open Society Foundation
Some 600 people turned out today to hear the defense stage of the case against Lt. Col. Kibibi Mutware and ten soldiers under his command. They have been charged with rape as a crime against humanity, after they allegedly went on a mass rape and pillage spree in the town of Fizi on New Year's Day.
Source: Open Society Foundation
By the end of the sixth day of the landmark mass rape trial currently taking place in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 47 women had told a closed session of the special military court their horrifying accounts of what happened in Fizi on New Year's Day. With the general public barred from hearing their testimony by the president of the military court, Lt Colonel Utena Kuluila, the final witnesses gave their individual versions of the terrible events on January 1, when soldiers raped and looted their way through the town.
Source: UN News Center
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for a “revolution” in how the world defines prosperity and relates to nature, based on the twin pillars of a sustainable development that breaks with the profligacy of the past and an equality that embraces empowerment for all.
Source: UNFPA
Statement by Ms. Purnima Mane, UNFPA Deputy Executive Director (Programme), at Expert Meeting on Maximizing the Development Impact of Remittances, in Geneva
Source: Unicef
For 17 years Mary was married to a man who emotionally and physically abused her. She first came to the Isange One Stop Centre in October of 2009, after having been recently beaten by her husband and left with a badly broken arm. At the time, she was so traumatized she could not speak, but now at 32, buouyed by the love of her four children and essential support from the centre, she is doing decidedly better.
Source: AWID
Margaret Sekaggya, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders submitted her third report to the UN Human Rights Council. This report is the first to focus exclusively on the situation of women defenders and those working on women’s rights or gender issues.
Source: AllAfrica
Nigeria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Professor Joy Ogwu, has asked the United Nations Security Council to evolve effective and lasting peacekeeping operations.
Source: Sudan Vision
Deputy of General Director of Police Force General Adil al A'ajib stated that rate of crime in Sudan has fallen down drastically especially in terms of crimes related to violence against women.
Source: Forward
Any woman who has spent time in Arab countries was likely to have been particularly impressed by the strong presence of women in the Egypt’s Tahrir Square protests. Whether it is Cairo or any other Arab city, walking around unaccompanied in public is not always a comfortable experience.
Source: AllAfrica
With one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, limited political and legal resources for women, elevated rates of forced marriage, and female genital mutilation, the overall situation for women in Ethiopia is one of the most precarious in the world.
Source: Scoop World
Most of us believe that government is there to meet our personal needs, but our expectations are never met. Hence the gap between the poor and the rich has become so enormous, and there is so much waste by those who are considered privileged.
Source: AllAfrica
Pro-Hope International with PHIN the Gambia held a day's sensitization of women in the grassroots level at the Catholic Relief Services at Kanifing on 12th February 2010.
Source: New Era
Despite the high level of knowledge about modes of HIV transmission and prevention, many Namibian women lack control over their own sexuality.
Source: BuaNews
South Africa's health care system will receive a much-needed boost in 2011, with the government planning to train more doctors and nurses, revitalise the country's nursing colleges, step up HIV/Aids prevention, and push towards finalising the new National Health Insurance scheme.
Source: Ghana News Agency
Society for Women Against AIDS in Africa (SWAA) -Ghana, an advocacy group, on Tuesday organised a medical screening on HIV and AIDS for 400 female porters (kayayee) drawn from the major markets in Accra.
Source: UN News Center
The recruitment and use of children by armed forces and other armed groups in Chad persists, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report, while noting that reduced tensions last year enabled many children to leave such groups.