Highlights initiatives and issues concerning the empowerment and development of women and young people, advocating for their active participation in all sectors of society.
Johannesburg, 31 August: Gender Links and UN Women are calling for young women entrepreneurs between ages 20 and 30 from South Africa ,to share their voices through a competitive challenge on how they can best be supported by private sector and other key stakeholders/partners. Globally to-date there are 5000, companies that have signed on to Women […]
More than 3,400 women in Jubaland and South West State of Somalia will benefit from the comprehensive project aimed to build their resilience, self-reliance and leadership skills, The Leadership, Empowerment, Access, and Protection (LEAP) project was launched on Monday by UN Women Somalia and Jubaland’s Ministry of Gender, Family Affairs and Human Rights. Funded by […]
Response to violence against women and girls (VAWG) remains extremely inadequate and barriers to reporting such assaults often make it hard for victims to seek legal redress. Therefore, when a programme like the Spotlight initiative addresses VAWG in Nigeria, it is important to highlight their work, writes Anthonia Obokoh for Nigeria Health Watch. Spotlight Initiative in Nigeria […]
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has engendered women empowerment and gender equality across sectors at regional and national levels, and in 2019 adopted a Regional Multi-Dimensional Women’s Economic Empowerment Programme aimed at promoting women’s economic empowerment and gender-responsive development. This was said by outgoing SADC Executive Secretary, Dr. Stergomena Lawrence Tax, in a keynote […]
This article was originally published by APC member organisation CITAD. Internet connectivity is becoming part and parcel of humans’ lives all over the globe, but the story in underdeveloped countries, most especially those living on the African continent, is different and not encouraging. Millions of people in Africa are finding it difficult to access the […]
We are pleased to announce the launch of the website for the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN). After the first two years of the project starting, we are glad to officially share the first research results on this new site. The FIRN focuses on the making of a feminist internet, seeing this as critical to […]
Pretoria, South Africa, 24 August 2021: The number of children born to teen mothers in South Africa’s most populous province, Gauteng, has jumped 60% since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with Save the Children concerned for the well-being of both mothers and babies. New figures from the Gauteng Department of Health show that more […]
Young people in institutions of learning are faced with various challenges including poverty, gender inequality and inadequate access to health information. Despite various strategies and policies aimed at promoting access to information within learning institutions, the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and needs of young people are yet to be sufficiently addressed. Furthermore, […]
“We were living a simple and happy life before the 2017 drought”, tells us Nadifo, a 30-year-old woman, mother of 4 children aged between 7 months to 6 years, who at the time of the Sima drought that hit Somalia was forced to leave with her whole family their hut to find shelter in a […]
The number of hungry people in the world grew by a staggering 161 million people in 2020 to 811 million. More than one third of these people live in Africa. One of the main reasons for this increase is the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with the cost of healthy diets and high levels of income inequality. […]
