Closing the gender gap between women and men on agriculture and food security could free over one hundred million people from hunger.
Nothing is as powerful as a community itself seeing the harm being done to its own children and deciding – collectively – to end that practice."
Source: International Labour Organization
Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the first woman to head the African Union Commission, urged African Member States and international partners to invest more in order to promote job creation in the region.
Bit by bit, cities are becoming safer for women and girls around the world, whether it is the woman vendor at the market in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, who is now able to safely sell her wares, or the girl who can now walk the streets of Quito, Ecuador, thanks to a change in the city ordinance on violence against women that now includes sexual harassment in public spaces.
Source: Daily News
PRIMARY school pupils in Rukwa Region have complained that some parents in the region force their daughters to drop out of school so as to get married. The parents benefit from this under-age married because suitors pay a dowry.
Source: Daily Observer
Forty-two communities in seven districts in the Upper River Region (URR) are the latest to drop knife as efforts towards the elimination of the deeply rooted traditional practice of Female Genital Cutting or Mutilation gained momentum.
Tanzania Women Chamber of Commerce (TWCC) has begun women’s rights and duties training for ‘cross-border’ entrepreneurs who have been sidelined from fully participating in their trade activities undermining potential benefits that they would have otherwise enjoyed.
As the country marked the end of a month dedicated to women and girls, yesterday, several officials said the performance of women in managing business and accessing financial facilities at banks is steadily growing.
The annual report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict highlights progress made in 2012 to protect children living in countries affected by conflict, but also documents how the evolving character and tactics of war are creating unprecedented threats for them.
The National Council for Women has finished drafting its bill aimed at confronting violence towards women.
Source: Daily Monitor
IN SUMMARY: To achieve political integration, the treaty must first address the gender parity principle that will bolt all the parts of the vehicle and give the women drivers a strong vehicle.
Source: Ekklesia
Botshelo Moilwa, a young African woman from Gaborone, Botswana, has called on churches to affirm the dignity of women amid the realities of HIV and AIDS and sexual violence, if they are to realize the Christian vision of justice and peace.
Source: International Labour Organization (ILO)
In her first visit to the International Labour Conference, Malawian President, Joyce Banda, says that despite global efforts, child labour remains a “huge problem”.
Source: Radio Dabanga
A 27-year-old woman and her two daughters of five and seven were killed when a "Sudanese Air Force Antonov" bombed their home on the outskirts of a village in East Jebel Marra on Sunday.
In South Africa, a woman is raped every 26 seconds; 1 in 4 women are victims of domestic violence and every 6 hours a woman is killed by her intimate partner. These are the statistics that are depicted on a mural in Khayelitsha that was unveiled at an event on the 31st of May 2013.
Under a swiftly shifting landscape in rural Kenya, climate change and its impacts have drastically changed numerous lives in the African nation of Kenya, especially for rural Kenyan pastoralists who depend almost exclusively on rainfall and adequate water supplies.
Source: Women News Network
The Malawian non-government organization (NGO), Men for Gender Equality Now, is challenging the male stereotype by working to end violence against women. They are focusing on men as the agents of change.
Source: SOS Children Villages
Out of 31 countries where the average woman has more than five children, 29 are in Africa.
I believe in an Africa that is fit for women and girls; that protects their well-being and creates a supportive environment for them to realise their aspirations. As I look at the work done by African states in pursuit of gender equality, I am convinced that the continent is either on course for another dismal episode in the empowerment of women
All classrooms of the literacy project for girls and women in Senegal (PAJEF) will soon be equipped with a digital kit consisting of a laptop, an interactive beamer, an infrared stylus touch pen to write directly on the digital board, as well as adapted software.