Source: AllAfrica
Wau — The United Nations Mission in South Sudan in Western Bahr El Ghazal State on Tuesday joined the worldwide peacekeepers' anniversary which is celebrated annually on 29th May.
Source: Concord Times
Fatimah Zahra is the daughter of the Holy Prophet Muhammad and true Muslims all over the world usually pay glowing tribute to her like I have done in this article.
Source: IPS
The Traditional Courts Bill currently under discussion in South Africa's parliament and due to be enacted by the end of 2012 could undermine the basic rights of some of the country's most vulnerable inhabitants: the 12 million women living in remote rural communities across the country.
Source: Rwanda Focus
Since the last parliamentary elections, Rwanda has been the first country in the world where women hold a majority in one of the chambers of parliament - with 56% in the chamber of deputies. There are also a good number of top female officials in the executive, whether as Ministers or heads of institutions.
Source: Nyasa Times
President Joyce Banda on Wednesday laid a foundation stone for Maternity Waiting Home and launched the Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood in Mulanje with a resolve to gallantly fight against the alarming maternal deaths in Malawi.
Source: Health-e
Almost 5 000 women died while pregnant or within 42 days of giving birth in South Africa between 2008 and 2010, more than in any of the previous years.
Source: The Inquirer
Under the auspices of the Angie Brooks International Centre for Women's Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security, the Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liberia, RE. Olubanke King-Akerele today launch her book entitled: “Women's Leadership in Post Conflict Liberia My Journey”.
The UK's stand against sexual violence in conflict is positive, but the importance of gender expertise needs to be recognised.
Showing that women in Libya can be much more than just sexy bodyguards or accessories to murder, women are dipping into politics in the hope of drafting a constitution which protects their rights.
Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced a UK initiative on preventing sexual violence in conflict later today.
Gertrude Mkoloi earns a living harvesting maize on a small piece of land in rural Zimbabwe. Or at least she used to.
Three years ago, the African Union began a continent-wide campaign to reduce the number of women who die when pregnant or giving birth.
Source: The Guardian
Black Diamond has never met Charles Taylor, but she still calls the day the former Liberian president was sentenced for crimes against humanity the happiest of her life. On Wednesday, Taylor is expected to be sentenced for his crimes and the 30-year-old former female rebel leader who fought against him will be watching with interest.
Source: RFI
A couple of Guinean origin is to stand trial for female circumcision in France on Tuesday. Although they were put under control of court in 2005 when their two elder daughters were found to have undergone female genital mutilation, their two younger daughters were later found to have suffered the same fate.
There might well be a correlation between the defacement of The Spear in Johannesburg and a burglary in Cape Town. In the latter, five years of photographs have been stolen. But they are no ordinary photographs, for they depict naked black women being in love – with each other.
The Traditional Courts Bill currently under discussion in South Africa’s parliament and due to be enacted by the end of 2012 could undermine the basic rights of some of the country’s most vulnerable inhabitants: the 12 million women living in remote rural communities across the country.
The most pressing global problems cannot be solved without the participation of women. From the very beginning of his administration, President Barack Obama has put women at the heart of United States foreign policy, says Melanne Verveer, the United States Ambassador-at-large for Global Women’s Issues. And that is because the most pressing global problems cannot be solved without the participation of women.
Human rights group Amnesty International has called on Sudanese authorities to stop the execution a women condemned to stoning for alleged adultery, and release her ’immediately and unconditionally’.
It's often proclaimed that "behind a strong man there is a strong woman" -- and in the case of Kenya's prime minister and his wife, the saying seems to be true.
Achieving gender equality in most of the agricultural work in Africa, Asia and Latin America is still a major challenge, according to a new report by a Dutch based organisation.