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Brigitte Rasamoelina and Yvette Sylla are women with two different approaches to politics in Madagascar. One formed a political party, while the other decided to legalise her organisation as an association. But both women are considering running in Madagascar's November elections.
Since their first child was born 16 years ago, Hiroyuki Ozaki has taken care of the household, relinquishing his traditional role as the main breadwinner while his wife held on to her career in the travel industry.
Women activists have developed a manifesto through which they will inform political parties and stakeholders about gender concerns ahead of next year’s elections.
Parliament's two-day Women's Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) kicks off today.
Veronica* did not realize she had been sterilized while giving birth to her daughter until four years later when, after failing to conceive, she and her boyfriend consulted a doctor.
As the debate rages over the withdrawal of British and US troops in Afghanistan, there are those who argue that the appalling treatment of women under the Taliban is a peripheral issue. They claim that the fate of Afghan women such as 18-year-old Aisha, whose nose and ears were sliced off as retribution for running away from her husband's home, is horrific, but irrelevant. They are wrong. Women's equality must be at the front and centre of the discussion if there is to be a hope of restoring peace and prosperity to wartorn nations such as Afghanistan.
South African women who have contributed towards protecting and conserving water sources in communities have been acknowledged by government through the Women in Water Awards.
As Hamas cracks down on the rights of Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip, their sisters in the occupied West Bank are slowly gaining ground. But a bureaucracy, that is sometimes supported by foreign aid, is crippling these advances.
As Hamas cracks down on the rights of Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip, their sisters in the occupied West Bank are slowly gaining ground. But a bureaucracy, that is sometimes supported by foreign aid, is crippling these advances.
As details emerged this week of the U.N.'s knowledge of rebel activity in the villages where nearly 200 women were systematically gang raped by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month, human rights groups are demanding an investigation into the U.N.'s failure to prevent the raid from occurring.
THE failure to appoint a significant number of women to influential posts in the current government of national unity (GNU) should be regarded as yet another outstanding issue in the shaky power-sharing truce, gender activists said this week, warning the coalition government risked alienating the female folk in the wake of talk on fresh elections. With women constituting more than 52 percent of the Zimbabwe population, Article XX of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) states that there is need for gender parity, particularly the need to appoint women to strategic Cabinet posts.
The suffragists who 90 years ago won voting rights for women would likely shake their heads in wonder at this election, with its "mama grizzly" candidates and high-stakes woman-vs.-woman showdowns
Abuja — First Lady, Patience Jonathan has urged men to strongly support the Nigerian women who she charged to offer themselves for elective positions.
Irene Wangolo was advised to undergo an HIV test during her antenatal visit and to return to the clinic with her husband so they could be counselled on preventing HIV transmission to their unborn baby. But her husband refused to accompany her saying it was not his business and Wangolo never returned to the clinic in Bungokho in eastern Uganda. So she missed all the services, including the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT).
Gender equality groups said on Wednesday South Africa is lagging far behind when it comes to ensuring women are on an equal footing with men.
