Egyptian women’s organizations and a number of public figures called on Egypt’s new President Mohamed Morsi to investigate recent attacks on women, specifically against non-veiled women.
The recent announcement by a local chief that he is living with HIV has brought the conservative world of traditional Swazi leadership into the thrust of 21st century AIDS mitigation efforts.
Source: All Africa
Nigerian female lawyer and gender rights activist, Ms. Oby Nwankwo has been elected into the United Nations' Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women, CEDAW.
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WOMEN have been encouraged to join small groups and start income generating projects to improve their standard of living.
This was said on Monday by wives of government leaders who visited Equal Opportunities For All Trust Fund (EOTF) pavilion hosting women small and medium entrepreneurs at the ongoing 36th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair(DITF).
Source: All Africa
Bong County Women for the Protection of Women Rights has called on authorities of the Ministry of Justice and the 9th Judicial Circuit Court in Bong County to bring to justice the "notorious" women rights violator in Sanoyea District.
Source: All Africa
In conflict-hit West African countries, husbands often pose a greater threat to women's lives than an armed assailant, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said in a recent report, but even in more stable countries, violence against women is hard to eradicate.
Source: Vanguard
Rivers State Governor, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, has said that one way to curb violence against women and sexploitation of women was to address the economic imbalance in the country.
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The first Angolan conference on Women and Domestic Violence will happen on July 3 in Luanda, under the leadership of the Ministry of Family and Women Promotion (Minfamu) and Banco Espírito Santo Angola (BESA) bank.
Source: This Day
Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina, has expressed the readiness of the Federal Government to work with the United Nations and other development partners to empower Nigerian women economically.
The nation of Zambia has started the process of domesticating legal protective and reporting mechanisms that may increase help to women inside the country revealed the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Gender and Development in Zambia, Mr. Edwidge Mutale recently.
The Ecowas Federation of Business Women and Entrepreneurs (FEBWE) Gambia Chapter was Friday officially launched by the vice president and minister of Women's Affairs, Her Excellency Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, at SunSwing Hotel and Resort in Kololi.
A Moroccan rights organization launched an awareness campaign against the veiling of young girls, describing it as a major form of child abuse.
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Senegal will vote for new lawmakers in an election Sunday set to put more women than ever in the national assembly thanks to a new law which requires an equal gender balance on party lists.
The international press has been quick to pick up the horrific story of the sexual assault and mob attack of British journalist Natasha Smith last Sunday. Local media, however, has been silent, highlighting one of the most pressing concerns among women’s rights advocates in the country, who continue to battle against stereotypes, violence and a lack of attention for the work they are doing.
Women Affairs Minister Hajiya Zainab Maina and other stakeholders yesterday called for more efforts in empowering women in the country.
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The renewed Sudan uprising whose genesis can be traced back to December 2010 is now nearly two weeks old. The latest protests began when a small group of women students from the University of Khartoum held a demonstration in response to increases in transport and food prices.
Source: Ghana Web
The news is poverty or starvation, HIV AIDS or human right abuse, child trafficking or ritual murder. Even more so, the African woman is always associated with domestic violence, Female Genital Mutilation or rape. Indeed, just like any other continent, Africa has her good and bad. If the negatives are being talked about, it is only fair that we recognize the positives as well.
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The UN Security Council on Wednesday agreed to prolong the presence of UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for a year.
A few days before the runoff elections that brought the Muslim Brotherhood candidate to the presidency, I was invited along with other civil activists to meet Mohamed Morsi. He did not show up, but his top advisers were present. After the long speech they gave about how Morsi will empower the civil society and that the Muslim Brotherhood will respect human rights including women's rights, a colleague of mine raised his hand to ask a question.