Source: Capital FM
Microsoft Africa has teamed up with the Federation of Women Entrepreneurs Association (FWEA) and SupaMamas organization to train women in small and medium enterprises on using Microsoft tools to grow their business.
Source: Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda should be grounded in human rights, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the UN High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
IT was reported in the press at the weekend that more and more girls were dropping out of school to get married. This unfortunate scenario has also led to an increase in the number of under-age mothers, obstetric fistulas and broken marriages. Child marriages are not a new phenomenon.
Source: Marketwire
Almas Jiwani, President of UN Women National Committee Canada, is the first Canadian and first UN Women representative awarded with the prestigious International Women Development Champion Award in Paris, France Saturday evening.
Source: Egpyt Daily News
In a press conference on Sunday, the National Salvation Front (NSF) announced the establishment of a permanent committee tasked with defending women’s rights.
Source: Daily News Egypt
President Mohamed Morsi announced a new initiative on Sunday to support Egyptian women’s rights which aims to expand the role of women and resolve their most pressing challenges.
Source: The New Vision
Health workers in Soroti district have discovered that some women take other men to antenatal clinics, instead of their husbands. Gabriel Egabu, the health information assistant at Gweri Health Centre III, said they had registered 10 such cases.
Source: The Namibian
A group of young Namibian arts educators and practitioners recently initiated and launched a new arts education for development organisation called ChiNamibia.
This initiative was inspired by Chipawo Zimbabwe which is a part of the acclaimed international body Chipawo World.
Source: Vanguard
Mrs Dodo Esther,one of the less-privileged women in Ilaje-Bariga, a Lagos slum, had lived from hand to mouth for 28 years. She used to be a petty trader until she developed passion for midwifery which she learnt from her mother-in-law.
Source: The New Dawn (Monrovia)
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) will on Monday, 25 March launch two Flag Ship Reports and validate the national consultations held on the Global Development Agenda Post 2015, dubbed "Our voices and aspirations for the world we want after 2015."
Source: Vanguard
In the twelve years, since the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, the world has seen an unprecedented mobilization of resources for HIV. Innovative partnerships have been created to support an elevated response to the epidemic.
Source: Sudan Tribune
The recent handover ceremony of Al-Jazeerah state's Al-Komor Village Girls' Primary School, which has undergone a series of extensive refurbishments, was attended by a number of foreign and Sudanese dignitaries.
Egypt’s leading Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) supports women’s rights but has reservations on some articles contained in a recently signed U.N. declaration on violence against women, Mohamed Saad Katatni, chairman of the party, said.
Source: Daily Trust
Political will is crucial to Nigeria's plans to ensure that 13 life-saving commodities recommended by the United Nations to save one million lives in Nigeria by 2015 are available in health facilities, says the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
Source: Health-e (Cape Town)
"Shame about her cancer stopped my sister from asking for help sooner," a Khayalitsha woman, Monica, told the audience at a talk at the 17th Reach to Recovery International Breast Cancer Support Conference currently underway in Cape Town.
Source: Health-e (Cape Town)
Recent news reports across the world included the incredible information that a baby had been cured of HIV. Is this really true?
This news was presented at an HIV medical conference (Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections) in Atlanta on March 4th.
On March 20, 2013, the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, in partnership with the UNISA Women's Forum, hosted an event/discussion, dubbed "Beyond All Barriers: Empowering Women Leaders", a women's economic empowerment outreach event, at the Miriam Makeba Auditorium on the UNISA campus in Pretoria.
Violence against women -- both domestic and sexual, and discrimination at work places, multiple responsibilities and poverty among the vast majority, just to mention a few -- continue to haunt women in the country despite ratification of various Human Rights Charters.
Source: This Day
Bridging the gap in access to basic Information and Communication Technology (ICT) between men and women has been identified as critical to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG), one that would assist Nigeria realise its dream of becoming a major economic power.
Source: Government of South Sudan
The Presidential Advisor on Gender and Human Rights Madam Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior has challenged South Sudanese women to prioritise agriculture for commercial and subsistence purposes.