AMUGE ROSELYN IS 14 YEARS OLD AND married. But unlike the fairy tale in which she would have lived "happily ever after," her marriage signalled the beginning of a long nightmare.
A Bulawayo woman who had unprotected sex with her lover knowing she was HIV positive has been spared jail after a magistrate slapped her with a wholly suspended five-year prison term, largely because he did not get infected.
Recently, Nigeria joined the rest of the world to celebrate the 2008 International Women's Day. In this article, Christiana Esebonu Ebei observes that, given the intimidating lack the Nigerian woman suffers and the lack of political will exhibited by successive
From the onset, they were convinced on what to do - impact on the less privileged and give them a meaning for their lives. Given their pedigree as achievers in their various fields, carrying out their conviction should not pose
Indications that Nigeria's maternal mortality statistics have worsened emerged recently in a United Nations' report which named the country as having the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world. Eugene Agha writes on the causes of that sorry status
Five years into the Darfur conflict, women and girls need protection from rape and brutal attacks still being committed by government forces and armed groups throughout Darfur, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
For Ugandan men, the equation is often a simple one: an abundance of children equals virility and security. This deeply rooted belief has frightening implications, however. According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, the population of the East African country
The answer of the Secretary of State for Education to the question posed by Sidia Jatta, the member for Wuli, on free education for girls, at the current session of the National Assembly, needs clarification.
Halima [not her real name], a mother of five girls, shudders whenever she remembers how she suffered after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM/Cutting), a practice still widespread in Somalia.
The Sudanese government and rebel groups in the war-ravaged Darfur region should immediately take measures to end the sexual violence endemic to the conflict, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
