Source: The New Vision
Students from various universities want the affirmative action policy reviewed saying it is only increasing the gender inequality gap in the country.
Source: The New Dawn
Women here have re-assured President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of explicit confidence in her leadership in the wake of recent criticism of her administration by co-Nobel Laureate Ms. Leymah Gbowee.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
AS the Constitution Review Commission started meetings to collect people's view here last week, women's participation was dismal. Perhaps the same system that the constitutional reforms are meant to change is what had kept them away from meetings.
Source: Open Society Initative for Southern Africa
My dream is a big dream - to build a new society where all people - women and men, the young and the old - are aware of their role in promoting democracy and good governance through political participation - and where this participation does not simply translate into affiliation to a political party but into demanding their rights, adhering to their responsibilities, accessing opportunities and having social respect. My struggle is a tough struggle - to persuade women to join this revolution and to transform Mozambican youth into a real power in the country.
Source: Ghana News Agency
A Guideline for the Development and Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, was on Tuesday launched with the hope it would deepen women's contributions in peace-building efforts.
Source: CNN
Editor's note: Gordon Brown served as Britain's Prime Minister between 2007 and 2010 after a decade as the country's finance minister, or Chancellor of the Exchequer. In July this year he was appointed as a United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.(CNN)
Rural women structures in Bong, Lofa, and Nimba Counties engaged in poultry production have identified the formulation and availability of nutritious poultry feeds as key to a sustainable poultry enterprise in Liberia.The women, drawn mainly from districts and communities in the three counties, spoke at the end of a two-day intensive chicken feeds formulation training in Gbarnga, Bong County in early September.
President Sirleaf addressing the World Bank Seminar in Tokyo, Japan - Women in the Private Sector - Good for Development and Business.
Source: Capital FM
More than 400 young women drawn from various political parties on Monday held a demonstration in Nairobi to petition the Registrar of Political Parties and Justice Minister to ensure that at least 50 percent of all elective and appointive positions are allocated to them.
Source: The New Times
The month of October is universally recognised as the breast cancer awareness month, and rightly so - one in eight women will get breast cancer in her lifetime. When I think of what that means regarding the women in my life, I am shaken (Breast cancer is the 29th cause of deaths in Rwanda).
Source: The New Dawn
Liberian Women in leadership from more than 50 women organizations, representing all shades of political, religious, community and non-governmental organizations have described Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee's statement against President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as a disgrace to womanhood.
Source: Alert Net
On this International Day of Rural Women, what I am most conscious of is how much rural women do for their families and communities. And how much more we all need to do to support them so that they can achieve improved livelihoods and food security in a way that is sustainable.
Taking their cue from the Arab Spring, but fearing a backlash from Islamists the uprisings brought to power, Arab cyber activists have embarked on a daring campaign urging women fight for equality.
The African Union - United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), in collaboration with the Ministries of Social Affairs and the Wali’s (Governor) Advisors on Women and Children in the five Darfur states, organized a series of Open Days on United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security which concluded on 9 October in El Fasher, North Darfur.
Source: The New Times
When she was just seven, Beata Mpinganzima lost both parents. It was the beginning of her tribulations.
Source: United Nations World Food Program
PRESS RELEASE - School officials in South Sudan say a monthly take-home food ration from the World Food Programme (WFP) has helped to reduce the number of female students dropping out of school.
Source: IPS
For many women in Malawi's disaster-prone southern district of Nsanje, resilience is essential to survive the cyclical flooding.
The Botswana High Court has overturned a customary law which prevented women from inheriting the family home.
Building on its ongoing work to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, will invest an additional $20 million over the next five years to reach the most marginalized adolescent girls in 12 countries with high rates of child marriage. The countries to be focused on include Guatemala, India, Niger and Zambia.
Radical Islamists who seized northern Mali earlier this year are maintaining their control through fear and drug money, imposing an extremist version of Muslim Sharia law and restrictions that target women in particular, a top United Nations human rights official said today.