That women and girls are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS is well established, but a new report reveals how little we know about what countries are doing, or not doing, to address their vulnerability.

As Kenya contemplates a policy shift from rain-fed agriculture to irrigation, some women in North Eastern Province are ahead of the game: they have turned to rain water harvesting for food production and their efforts are bearing fruit.

Some 100 children under five years of age will die today in Zimbabwe, a bleak statistic that is part of new social development data released by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Government, revealing that the situation there

A new report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has revealed that poor women especially in Africa will be hardest hit by climate change because they are the poorest but also adds that they hold the key to climate

Birchwood Conference Centre, Boksburg

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday led a chorus of United Nations officials in calling on the international community to make greater efforts to tackle the global pandemic of violence against women and girls.

Tunisia is observing on November 25, 2009, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

THE Niger Delta Women's Movement for Peace and Development, a non-governmental organisation, has suggested that global climate change could be addressed through human security lens and said it requires immediate global action to mitigate and adapt to the climate changes.

The Bank of Industry (BOI) has disbursed N2 billion under its cooperative lending scheme to assist women, its Managing Director has said.Mrs. Evyln Oputu said this at a two-day entrepreneurial empowerment workshop last week in Abuja.

Sokoto State Government has disbursed a sum of N5 million to 100 women under the State Poverty Eradication Scheme.

Hon. (Mrs.) Uche Ekwunife currently represents Anaocha/Njikoka/Dunukofia federal constituency of Anambra State in the House of Representatives. Having defeated five other contestants at the governorship primaries of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Ekwunife proudly emerged the party's candidate for the

Progressive Women's Movement of South Africa (PWMSA) Convener, Baleka Mbete, has called on families to stop protecting abusers of women and children.

WOMEN activists have expressed worry over the delay by the Police and courts to dispose of gender-related violence cases.

THE Sadc Parliamentary Forum Regional Women's Parliamentary Caucus has expressed concern over the apparent decline in the number of women in decision-making positions in most African countries.