Source: News Day
South Africa's Home Affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who is vying for the African Union Commission chairperson position, has pledged to focus on the development of the continent, including fighting and reducing poverty and underdevelopment if she lands the top job.
Source: Nairobi Star
Former Limuru MP George Nyanja has in partnership with the CFSK and the Kenya Post Office Savings bank donate 10 computers to women's groups. Nyanja speaking in Nyambari, Lari district, said the women approached him asking to be empowered with computer skills.
Source: Daily Monitor
At least 4,000 women in Karamoja have been enrolled for family planning to help households improve their livelihoods. Officials from Maries Stopes, an NGO working in collaboration with the Ministry of Health on reproductive health issues in the sub-region, said the response is positive.
Source: Business Daily
I welcome the recent Capital Markets Authority push for more women seats in the boardroom. The reason for this should not be gender equality but a more businesswise approach.
Source: Daily News
THE Deputy Minister for Community Development, Gender and Children Ummy Ally Mwalimu has urged youths to actively participate in the constitutional review process.
Source: TrustLaw
Dorcas Mbvuto, 32, was raped by a spiritual leader in her church in April 2010 on the outskirts of Queens Park West, a Bulawayo suburb. Three months later, the quiet woman was shocked when she discovered that she was pregnant with his baby, says one of her sisters, who declined to be named.
Source: RNW
Mali's President Amadou Toumani Toure has signed a new family law, an official said Friday, after it was revised due to pressure from Muslim groups to cut out sections providing for greater women's freedoms.
Source: New Democrat
In an accelerated drive to promote youth empowerment, especially adolescent girls across the African continent, the government of Japan has granted US$86,206 to Youth Crime Watch of Liberia (YCWL).
Source: Daily News
"WHEN you educate a woman, you educate a nation," says Kalunde, whose foster child was thrown out of her rural school and her home after becoming pregnant. "A woman is a mirror and spends much of her time with her children." Every day across Tanzania, hundreds of schoolgirls become pregnant, bringing their learning to a halt.
Source: New Democrat
As the nation yearns for President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to reveal the full slate of her new government, she has assured that appointment this time will reflect ethnic and gender balance, while former officials who performed with integrity in the past government, are likely to resurface in the new administration.
Source: Capital FM News
Former Police Commissioner Major General (Rtd) Mohammed Hussein Ali who is now the Postmaster General, is among six suspects facing possible indictment before the International Criminal Court's Pre-Trial Chamber.
Source: HRW
Many democracies have allowed their ties with repressive allies to temper their support for human rights in the Arab Spring protests, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012. For reasons of principle and long-term interest, governments should stand firm with the people of the Middle East and North Africa when they demand their basic rights and work to ensure the transition to genuine democracies.
Source: ON LINE opinion
On 31 October 2000, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1325 (SC1325) affirming the importance of women's voices in the resolution of war and conflict. http://www.un.org/events/res_1325e.pdf (accessed 20 January 2012) For women and women's organisations, this was an extraordinary achievement.
Source: HRW
Libya's interim government and its international supporters should make it an urgent priority to build a functioning justice system and begin legal reform that protects human rights after Muammar Gaddafi, Human Rights Watch said today, in releasing its World Report 2012.
Source: Irin News
The main threats to women in South Sudan derive from chronic deficits in health, economic opportunities, access to food and gender equality, rather than weapons, despite the prevalence of militias and armed conflict, according to the Small Arms Survey.
Source: Times of Zambia
SHE is a regular presence on the streets of Freedom Way in Lusaka begging for alms from well-wishers. She is blind and describes her life as painful and full of strife.
Source: The Morung Express
Jean Shinoda Bolen, a best-selling author and internationally-known lecturer, is a qualified psychiatrist and Jungian analyst. She is presently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California Medical Center. Her fan following includes the acclaimed novelist Alice Walker, who once wrote that “the healing power of Jean Shinoda Bolen’s work and thought transform all who will allow encounter”, and feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who has observed that Bolen has shown people how “the cult of masculinity is endangering us all.” Pamela Philipose interviewed her in New York.
Source: IRIN
Nairobi — The main threats to women in South Sudan derive from chronic deficits in health, economic opportunities, access to food and gender equality, rather than weapons, despite the prevalence of militias and armed conflict, according to the Small Arms Survey.
Source: RNW
About 2,000 Malawian women Friday staged a protest against attacks on trouser-wearing women, who were stripped in the streets this week by a gang of unemployed youths and sidewalk vendors.
Source: RNW
More than 200 women were let out of jail for 24 hours after President Abdoulaye Wade declared Friday a "day of giving" in which no ladies should be in prison, the justice minister said in a statement.