Source: RH Reality Check
Imagine a life where you live on less than two dollars a day. You have been saving for months to afford a trip to the health clinic. With your payment in hand, you walk three hours to get to the nearest clinic, carrying your young children with you. When you finally arrive, you want to be able to receive information and testing for HIV and also pick up contraception to prevent pregnancy, but you’re told that the clinic does not provide both services. You can get tested for HIV, but you’ll have to walk an additional 20 miles to a separate clinic to obtain contraceptives. Unable to cover the distance, you are forced to return home without the contraception that you want and need.
Source: Boston.com
A legal aid group says a court in Namibia has ruled that the government there sterilized three women infected with HIV without getting proper consent.
Protocol on rights of Women - The Working Group on Gender Justice in Africa Tuesday called on the African Union (AU) to encourage member states that are yet to ratify the protocol on the rights of women in Africa to do so.
The number of female elected parliamentarians in Senegal’s National Assembly has almost doubled thanks to the impact of new parity laws on the July elections..
Source: Nigeria First
ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 7TH SUMMIT OF THE AFRICAN FIRST LADIES PEACE MISSION (AFLPM), ABUJA, JULY 26, 2012
South Africa’s Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities Lulu Xingwana will officially launch the country’s Women’s Month on Wednesday, a statement from her ministry said on Monday.
ILO’s gender policy specialist welcomes recent achievements on gender equality in politics but says more needs to be done including in the world of work.
Egyptian women fear that the revolution would be aborted before achieving its three main principles: bread, freedom and social justice.
Gender-related issues in defending and protecting women's rights, equality, and gradual growth in participation in decision-making positions at all levels, were presented today at women from various social backgrounds.
As more than 22,000 people gathered at the XIX International AIDS Conference (IAC) this week in Washington D.C., UN Women convened a dialogue “Women Leading, Organizing and Inspiring Change in the AIDS Response,” among eight transformative leaders. Representing government, national AIDS coordinating authorities, women living with HIV, and caregiver alliances, panelists shared experiences from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean on how to ensure meaningful participation of women at all levels of the AIDS response.
The wife of the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Mrs. Kadre Desire Ouedraogo, has called for synergy, complementarity, strong partnership and collaboration between the African First Ladies Peace Mission and the Commission for the promotion of continental peace and development.
Source: United States Department of State
Remarks by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at AIDS 2012: Turning the Tide for Women and Girls
Source: All Africa
ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 7TH SUMMIT OF THE AFRICAN FIRST LADIES PEACE MISSION (AFLPM), ABUJA, JULY 26, 2012
Source: All Africa
President Goodluck Jonathan has challenged African First Ladies to summon courage to speak out against abuses in the continent to promote peace and stability.
President Jonathan, who declared open the African First Ladies Peace Mission, AFLPM, in Abuja, Thursday, expressed optimism that soon, Nigeria will produce its first set of female service chiefs.
More than 30 girls from Nimba and Lofa counties have been empowered by the Women Peace and Security Network- Africa (WIPSEN-Africa), through its Young Girls Transformative Project.
Female miners have appealed to President Robert Mugabe to stop male politicians from abusing their power by grabbing mining claims from them.
Since 2006, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has published an annual report on gender inequality around the world. The Global Gender Gap Report (GGGR) ranks countries according to their scores in four categories: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment.
Source: AllGhana News
Teach a woman how to fish and she would provide fish forever. Wedaga, Sonoo and Unity women's groups in the Kassena-Nankana District of the Upper East Region have every cause to be happy in their new enterprise of processing and production of “Potaghurt”, a refreshing drink made from sweet potato turned into yoghurt, one of the initiatives of the Root and Tuber Improvement Programme (RTIMP) of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA).
Source: Huffington Post
Tackling the female side of the AIDS epidemic means going far beyond today's global focus on pregnant women, specialists told the world's largest AIDS meeting Wednesday.