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South Africans celebrate not one, but two Women’s Days every year. First there’s International Women’s Day in March and then there’s the country’s own National Women’s Day on the 9th of August. The latter commemorates the day in 1956 when 20,000 women from all over South Africa marched on the Union Buildings, the administrative seat of government in Pretoria, to protest against the Apartheid state’s repressive pass laws. All of August is officially designated as Women’s Month.
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The governance cluster of the Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance has called on SADC governments to redouble their efforts to attain the target of gender parity in all areas of decision-making by 2015.
Petite women pace the verandas of the Hamlin Fistula Hospital (formerly Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital) pulling multicoloured knitted blankets over their bodies to shield from the cool breeze that sweeps the well kempt trees and manicured lawns of their safe haven.
ACTING President Joice Mujuru has called for concerted efforts in uplifting women as they are key in contributing to economic growth and sustainable development in Zimbabwe.
Source: All Africa
With a widening market for fine art, the fine artists have had to pull up their socks to satisfy a more art-discerning public.
Ms. Faustina Otabil, Deputy Western Regional Director of the Department of Women and Children, said on Thursday that there was the need for equity and empowerment of women to realize the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) on women by 2015.
Source: All Africa
The deputy Chief Gender Monitor, Ramazani Barengayabo, has petitioned districts to support policies aimed at economically empowering women.
Source: UN News Centre
11 August 2011 – The United Nations official leading the fight against sexual violence in times of conflict today voiced concern over reports that women and girls fleeing famine in Somalia were being raped or abducted and forced into marriage by bandits and
The United Nations official leading the fight against sexual violence in times of conflict today voiced concern over reports that women and girls fleeing famine in Somalia were being raped or abducted and forced into marriage by bandits and other armed groups as they tried to reach refugee camps in Kenya.
Source: Human Rights Watch
A lack of oversight and accountability for recurrent problems in the health system and abuses committed by health personnel contributes to South Africa’s substandard maternity care and undermines one of its top health goals: to reduce its high maternal death rate, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Source: All Africa
At least 71% of women in Nebbi are ignorant of the ways to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS and other sexual transmitted diseases (STDs).
Source: All Africa
The deputy Chief Gender Monitor, Ramazani Barengayabo, has petitioned districts to support policies aimed at economically empowering women.
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 9 (IPS) – While the exit of the Al-Qaeda-backed rebel group Al Shabaab has led to the first U.N. relief airlift in five years in the capital of famine-wracked Somalia, the situation for women and children remains precarious, humanitarian
The United Nations has encouraged Tanzania to urgently address the problem of violence against children in the wake of a new Government-led survey in which almost three quarters of girls and boys said they had experienced physical violence before the age of 18 at the hands of an adult or an intimate partner.
Long seen as the ugly step-child of HIV prevention, the female condom seems to be gaining popularity through grassroots campaigns, according to a report by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
Source: All Africa
At least 71% of women in Nebbi are ignorant of the ways to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS and other sexual transmitted diseases (STDs).
Source: All Africa
The Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee yesterday agreed to merge the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights Bill and the National Gender and Equality Commission Bill. The move is aimed at clearing the controversy
The economic empowerment of women in South Africa was under the spotlight on Tuesday as the country commemorated Women's Day.
Source: All Africa
The North Bank Regional Gender Action Team (GAT) recently held series of sensitisation meetings in cluster villages of Ngain Sanjal, Kataba, Illiassa, Dasilami, Prince and Pakau Njogu.
Source: All Africa
Twenty-nine teen mothers graduated on Saturday from HANCi's vocational training programme at a ceremony in Bo.