Female media practitioners in Cameroon have vowed to combat gender inequality in media houses. This was agreed upon during the 2-day workshop on Gender Justice in Media Houses during the week.
The 2008 Ibrahim Index of African Governance was recently launched. In an interview, Mary Robinson, a board member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation spoke about the correlation between women's rights and good governance.
Charges against one of the five men accused of killing and raping a Banyana Banyana player Eudy Simelane were withdrawn in the Springs Regional Court on Tuesday.
Angola's new government is promising better health facilities at both primary and secondary care levels, as well as to reduce the prevalence of HIV/AIDS over the next four years.
Millions of African women's progress is challenged by their everyday realities of hunger, violence, exclusion, sickness, and discrimination. According to the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), most African women are worse off today than they were a decade ago.
The debate over abortion has gone on for decades in Kenya as pro-life and pro-choice camps lock horns over the thorny issue of legalisation. But in the midst of the storm one scientist stands undeterred by attacks from opponents, firm in his resolve that every woman has the right to determine her own reproductive life.
Forum for the Empowerment of Women organised the SOWETO pride on 27 September, despite political changes in the country and the high levels of hate crimes.
Religious leaders from Africa, Asia and North America pledged on 29 September, to help end one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world. The effort was done by signing on to the "Say NO to Violence against Women Campaign," organised by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).
The Bush administration has taken action against an international charity in Africa over work it does in China, a step the group says is politically motivated and dangerous for poor African women and girls.
At least 300 women are victims of sexual violence every year in Bamako, according to local police records, but the actual figure is much higher said the president of the Bamako-based non-profit, Women in Law and Development in Africa.
Disabled people in northern Uganda are calling on the government to provide a more targeted HIV response. Most of them are those who were injured during the conflict between the government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).