About one in seven residents of Madagascar’s main port city of Toamasina are sex workers.
A coup d’état and the occupation of northern Mali have left many searching for answers to a deepening crisis.
Cases of women abused by their Husbands and disowned by their families are prevalent in the Algerian Society in which the male sex is thought superior mainly in Islamic circles.
A survey of attitudes in the community toward domestic violence in Nigeria, attests that the most frequent victims of violence usually turn out to be unmarried women in the southern states, with figures as high as 70 percent in some places.
The Royal Family and the Moroccan people celebrate, on Sunday, the birthday of HRH Princess Lalla Meryem whose career has always been an expression of a vision of modernity, whose salient features are social commitment, fidelity to the values of patriotism and the presence on the fronts of development, women's rights and child protection.
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki spoke Saturday to address fears that the revolution’s aims have been subverted. In the process he launched an attack on the leading party in the country’s National Constituent Assembly (NCA) and affirmed his commitment to women’s rights.
Source: The New Times
Representatives from various organisations, public and private institutions on Friday concluded a three day conference to devise means through which men can effectively get involved in fighting Gender Based Violence (GBV).
Source: The New Times
She spends the whole day at home taking care of the children and getting involved in the kitchen and garden work.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
THE President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Tanzania is keeping a close eye on the completion of evaluations and new guidance of the outcome of clinical trial tests of a new approach for preventing HIV in women.
The Women Legal Aid Centre has embarked on a special training programme on how to attend to victims of violence. This comes as violence acts against women is reported by the organisation to be increasing nationwide.
So much for “never again”. Five years after 1,300 Kenyans were killed and more than half a million displaced in the wake of a presidential election, one of the triggers of that violence, the inflammatory language of politicians, remains a serious threat to peace and stability as the country gears up for the next polls in March 2013.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
FOR the first time last Tuesday evening the Morogoro Municipal Council Cultural Officer, Martha Kidyala, joined residents of Morogoro to watch a play at the Mji Mpya Ward grounds.
Source: The New Age
The fight against gender-based violence has been dealt a blow after the launch of the National Council Against Gender-Based Violence, which was meant to take place at the weekend, was put on hold.
The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country's president.
Quietly, a revolution to develop cheap ways to draw water for irrigation is unfolding in small villages and rural regions in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, a new three-year study has found. This movement has the ability to turn agriculture around in the developing world.
Recent violence in Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo has forced thousands of people to flee their homes and seek refuge in neighboring Uganda. In the Ugandan settlements where refugees live, violence against women is a growing concern.
Abeline Razanamamy is an elderly widow living in central Madagascar. She is determined not to rely on anybody else for her survival.
President Joyce Banda of Malawi made her maiden appearance at the annual Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Heads of State and Government Summit that took place from 17 to 18 August in Maputo, Mozambique. At the same meeting, Banda got elected to the post of Deputy Chairperson of the regional body. The SADC Protocol on Gender and Development advocates for 50% representation of women in politics and decision-making by 2015. So far, Banda is the only woman Head of State in SADC.
North West Premier Mme Thandi Modise has made a call to women to emulate the generation of 1950s and declare to all and sundry that South African and African women are tired of the institutionalised disrespect and dignity robbery brought about by failure to provide adequate services to them.
Over 40 HIV-postive women who were allegedly sterilized against their will go to court to demand justice and possible compensation. The chairperson of the National Gender and Equality Commission Winfred Lichuma who is championing the women's cause described what happened to the women as "atrocious an infringement of their human rights and contrary to medical ethics."