Source: NDTV
Sudan's security forces have used sexual violence and intimidation to stop female activists from protesting and carrying out human rights campaigns, Human Rights Watch said today.
Source: Daily Maverick
In March each year the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), a global intergovernmental body of the UN Economic and Social Council, meets in New York to review the progress of women's rights globally. The planning and review sessions are attended by representatives of UN states and civil society who arrive at joint conclusions about the nature and scope of future commitment to gender-related concerns.
Source: BizJournals
The University of Washington received a $250,000 grant this week to continue a project that allows pregnant women in remote Africa to access health care through text message.
Dr. Jennifer Unger, an assistant professor at UW, has been working on this mobile health care technology since 2012. She is the primary investigator on the Mobile WACh program, which is named for the UW’s Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents and Children.
Source: PressTV
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Sudanese security forces have used sexual violence and intimidation to silence female rights campaigners.
Source: Graphic Online
The African Union (AU) Ministers of Gender and Women Affairs have held a consultation meeting at the African Union Hall of the AU Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations in New York to discuss various issues related to the priorities of women, gender and development 2016 and beyond.
Source: BBC
Somalia's prime minister has publicly backed a campaign to ban female genital mutilation (FGM) in his country.
Source: The Guardian
Sakina Saidi wakes with a sense of trepidation in her father’s home in Gatumba, western Burundi.
Source: Vanguard
She may be a big global oil player today with hands in various big pies, but chancellor of Osun State University and Chairman Rose of Sharon Foundation, Folorunsho Alakija was herself a victim of gender discrimination and child abuse, as she revealed in her speech as she accepted an honorary Doctorate- her 5th- from the same University recently.
Source: Daily Maverick
The Coalition of Lesbians (CAL) is lobbying for South Africa not to side with the Africa Group's conservative position on a broad range of sexual, reproductive and health rights and human rights issues being negotiated at the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the UN headquarters in New York which ends on Thursday. By MARIANNE THAMM.
Source: Huffington Post
Last week, Mashable published a video from an organization called Cordaid that follows a pregnant woman on her way to a maternity clinic in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Source:The Telegraph
A number of MPs are calling for an end to the “abhorrent practice” of breast ironing in the UK.
Source: Naija
In the past few weeks, one of the most important topics that has dominated the discourse among Nigerians is the unsuccessful passage of The Bill For An Act To Incorporate and Enforce Certain Provisions of The United Nations Convention On The Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women – the protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, and Other Matters Connected Therewith for second reading.
Source: EuroNews
This year’s Crans Montana Forum in Dakhla in Western Sahara continues the open and constructive dialogue between senior players in global politics, economics and aims to consolidate what’s been achieved in 2015 ahead of COP 22 climate change talks in Marrakech in November.
Source: UN Women
At the United Nations Headquarters’ in New York, during a packed side event of the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, UN Women today launched an innovative partnership with leading media houses to galvanize attention and concrete action towards the 2030 Agenda. The Step it Up for Gender Equality Media Compact brings together a broad coalition of media outlets from every region who work in print, broadcast and online news media to ensure wide reach and robust efforts towards women’s rights and gender equality.
Source: ICC Press Release
Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, regarding the conviction of Mr Jean-Pierre Bemba: “This case has highlighted the critical need to eradicate sexual and gender-based crimes as weapons in conflict”.
Source: African Development Bank Group
The Women in Business Initiative was launched on March 21, 2016 during the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan.
Source: The Guardian
Following Senate's rejection, last week, to pass the Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill (GEOB), a coalition of civil society organisations, under the aegies of the National Coalition on Affirmative Action (NCAA), yesterday said it would represent the bill to the Senate.
Source: UN Women News
More than 35 leading media outlets commit to increase women’s representation in the newsroom and in news content.
Source: Mail & Guardian Africa
RECENTLY, South African clothing retailer Edgars had to apologise for asking nursing mother Tasneem Botha to leave because she was looking to feed and change her baby in-store. Read more...
Source: Institute for Security Studies
Today, South Africa celebrates Human Rights Day, commemorating the 1960 shooting of police upon peaceful protestors, which killed 69 people. This year, reflecting on the role of police in relation to human rights seems more relevant than ever given that the African Union (AU) dedicated 2016 to human rights, with a specific focus on the rights of women. Read more...