Source: Africa Brains
Spindelegger congratulates Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on her election as Chairperson of African Union Commission (AU)
On the occasion of the election of the South African Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the new Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger stressed the importance of the AU for peace, security, and development on the continent. “For the first time, a woman was elected to lead the African Union Commission”, said Spindelegger, “this is a milestone and a signal of the significant changes taking place on this continent. I congratulate Minister Dlamini-Zuma for this responsible position”.
Source: IPS
Two days of hearings were set aside at the end of June for three victims who are not witnesses in the Jean-Pierre Bemba case before the International Criminal Court (ICC). Nevertheless, the Trust Fund for Victims is struggling to start its activities in the Central African Republic – three years after the confirmation of charges brought against the former Congolese militia leader.
Source: IPS
A shiver ran down Habiba Kanaté's* spine when she read about a policeman shooting and killing his wife in Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire. "That could have been me," she said.
Source: Women News Network
Zambia's first lady, Dr. Christine Kaseba (also known in Zambia as Mrs. Michael Sata), is calling for stiffer penalties for perpetrators of violence against women and children in the region. Regional advocates say the problem may be centered on violence inside the home.
Women’s rights groups in Morocco are denouncing comments made by Solidarity, Women and Family Minister Bassima Hakkaoui and are demanding reform of the kingdom’s rape laws.
The West African Women Association (WAWA) Gambia Chapter in collaboration with the international body of WAWA Tuesday began its first dissemination workshop on the Ecowas Women Treaty on Free Movement of People and Goods at the Paradise Suites Hotel in Kololi.
One woman's fight against ancient tribal laws that favor men has inspired thousands more. When Rkia Bellot’s family sold their communal land in 2004, each of her eight brothers received a share of the proceeds. But Bellot, a single woman, got nothing.
Source: StarAfrica.com
Spindelegger congratulates Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on her election as Chairperson of African Union Commission
On the occasion of the election of the South African Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the new Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger stressed the importance of the AU for peace, security, and development on the continent. "For the first time, a woman was elected to lead the African Union Commission", said Spindelegger, "this is a milestone and a signal of the significant changes taking place on this continent. I congratulate Minister Dlamini-Zuma for this responsible position".
The world’s population now stands at about seven billion, and by 2050, this figure will hit a whopping nine billion.
Beatrice Boateng, a member of parliament with the New Patriotic Party, Ghana’s official opposition to the ruling New Democratic Congress, has earned her place among the country’s lawmakers.
One year after the formation of South Sudan, the country’s women say that independence has not resulted in the positive political, economic and social changes that they had hoped for.
The Second African Women Economic summit wound up in Lagos on Saturday, with a unanimous commitment by hundreds of entrepreneurs and professional women to campaign vigorously for the economic empowerment of their genre as the surest means to banish poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth.
Source: The Guardian
A South African politician has become the first female leader of the African Union (AU), ending months of bitter deadlock at the continental body.
Source: The Southern Times
In Africa, the two major routes through which the HIV virus that causes AIDS is transmitted are unprotected sex and mother-to-child HIV transmission during pregnancy, labour and breastfeeding.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has pledged its continued support for women empowerment in the continent. The President of the AfDB, Donald Kaberuka, made the pledge in a video message to the 2nd African Women Economic Summit holding in Lagos, Nigeria.
Source: PeaceWomen
War is an international business based on profits and the proliferation of weapons. These are the words of my colleague, Annie Matundu-Mbambi, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Her work challenges not only the consequences of war but also the root causes and drivers of conflict: specifically, the economic incentives of militarization, profit, and the arms trade. Focusing on comprehensive conflict prevention is the transformative dimension and potential of the United Nations’ Women, Peace and Security agenda (WPS) and Security Council Resolution 1325 (SCR 1325), and the basis within the WPS Agenda to challenge the proliferation of weapons and profits of war. To date, the interpretation of the WPS agenda by the international community, particularly member states, has focused on the first two pillars of the Agenda: Protection, and to a lesser extent, Participation. However, there has been a collective failure to address the third pillar – Prevention—and what I call the two silent “Ps” of this pillar: Proliferation and Profit.
THE NEED to have a violence-free election in December 2012 in Ghana is of utmost importance to Ghanaians, institutions and developing partners at large.
At the London Summit on Family Planning, IPPF - the world's foremost sexual and reproductive health and rights organization - has made an unprecedented commitment to treble the number of women's and girls' lives saved each year by 2020.
President Yoweri Museveni has challenged leaders especially those from developing countries to re dedicate themselves to the social- economic transformation of their people and to addressing their reproductive health needs.
South African Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has won a vote to become the first female head of the African Union Commission, ITVNews reported the commission's delegates as saying.