AFRICA: 2012 Annual Women Parliamentarians Conference: African Parliamentarians Meet to Improve MNCH
Hundreds of African women decision-makers gathered at the Pan-African Parliament’s (PAP) Annual Women Parliamentarians Conference, held under the theme “The Role of Parliamentarians in Promoting Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Africa”.
Far too often, in the view of Africa’s budding female entrepreneurs, their continent is characterized as the recipient of aid that enables residents just to struggle by, and as a place that mistreats and marginalizes its women.
Source: UN News Service
The United Nations today launched a programme to empower poor rural women through economic integration and food security initiatives.
Source: Open Society Initative for Southern Africa
The Botswana High Court today provided a huge boost to the struggle for gender equality in Botswana by striking down a discriminatory customary law that only allowed men to inherit the family home.
Addis Ababa — While in the last decade an additional 52 million of sub-Saharan Africa's children enrolled in primary schools, with girl's enrolment increasing from 54 percent to 74 percent, a large majority of girls - 16 million - are still being denied access to education.
UNITED NATIONS — Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Thursday he is as committed to abolishing child marriage around the globe as he was to fighting apartheid in South Africa.
Johannesburg, Oct 11 (Prensa Latina) South African president, Jacob Zuma, called for greater efforts in education to combat forced marriages of many girls in the world, on ocassion of the celebration, for the first time today, of the International Day of the Girl.
Source: AllAfrica
Offering free education, making it compulsory and supporting it politically has been the winning strategy behind Burundi's successful bid to ensure that virtually all children get a primary school education. In this interview, UNICEF's representative in Burundi, Johannes Wedenig, expatiates on government's positive role in this development.
Source: SOS
Source: The New Times
Parents should avoid marrying off underage girls, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said yesterday.
The United Nations today praised the “historic” work done by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) to prosecute sexual and gender-based crimes committed during conflicts, and called for increased support for the Court’s work from the international community.
Source: Kennebec Journal
Imagine living in a community where your daughters are raped and beaten on their way to school, abducted and forced to marry men they do not choose and then scorned by the community as impure.
Concluding a four-day visit to Mali, a top United Nations human rights official today cited ongoing abuses in the northern part of the country, and highlighted the plight of women, whose rights have been particularly restricted.
Source: Gender Links
Increasing the representation of women in politics and decision-making is an opportunity to improve the quality of governance and also the right thing to do, as women constitute more than 52% of the population. This is the key message of government and international representatives that spoke yesterday at the launch of the 50/50 campaign at Royal Swazi Spa Convention Centre in Ezulwini, Swaziland.
Source: The Chronicle
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings will have her picture on the ballot paper as the flagbearer of the newly-formed National Democratic Party (NDP).
Source: Egypt State Information Service via AllAfrica
The Constituent Assembly is tending to agree on the presence of two chambers of parliament with legislative powers and to appoint senior state officials after being named by the president, said head of the constitution-drafting body Hossam el-Gheriani.
Source: Capital FM
The Attorney General on Tuesday filed a 30-page petition at the Supreme Court seeking interpretation on attaining the one third gender rule and resolution of disputes in presidential elections.
Source: ANGOP
Angola's minister of Family and Woman Promotion, Filomena Delgado, on Monday here pointed out woman promotion, increase of family competences in the rural areas as the actions that will deserve a special attention on the part of the sector in the coming five years, Angop learnt.
Source: East African Business Week
Civil society organizations have challenged Government and corporate companies participating in the exploration of Oil in the Albertine Graben in the Bunyoro Region to bring women on board as a way of promoting transparency when it comes to the issue of compensating for peoples land where the Oil wells are.
Source: Heritage
The Government of Liberia via the Ministry of Gender and Development has said no considerable improvement has been made by the state in the welfare of girls in the country, despite the launch of a special operation to improve their (girls) lives.