Following Ann Jones' "The War against Women in Africa" and Marie Claire Faray-kele's "DR Congo: Women - Violence in war and in peace", Awino Okech looks at continuing violence against women in Kenya even as peace returns.
The only way that the poor, particularly women, will benefit from all the efforts that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has put into improving global trade is to ensure that power inequalities are redressed.
President Jakaya Kikwete and Norwegian Premier Jens Stoltenberg this week launched an intensified campaign to reduce child and maternal mortality rates in the country.
Appointing herself as a ceremonial "commander in chief" in the fight against poverty, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka stressed that if we don't empower women then poverty would persist.
Women voters in Pennsylvania turned out in huge numbers for Senator Hillary Clinton on Tuesday. 59% of Democratic voters overall were women, only 41% were men. 57% of women voted for Senator Clinton, while only 48% of men did, resulting
Michigan Democrats in the House and Senate announced a new legislation package Monday that they say will reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, abortions, and STDs by making contraceptives and comprehensive sex education more widely available. Sex education in Michigan
High birthrates help keep Filipino families in poverty, the Washington Post reports. The government of the Philippines only supports so-called "natural family planning" methods, rejecting more modern methods of birth control because of the country’s strong ties to the Catholic
The Minister of Gender and Family Promotion, Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya, has condemned the increase of gender violence in some parts of the country. She was speaking yesterday at the opening of a three-day workshop on violence against women at Hotel
Four women will this weekend roll with their male counterparts in the KCB Pearl of Africa Uganda Rally. While two-time African champion Muna Singh, speedster Emma Katto, Jas Mangat and Ronald Ssebuguzi hog the limelight, women drivers are quietly plotting
Madam Adelaide Sosseh, chairperson of the Education For All Campaign Network, The Gambia, has disclosed that seventy two million children globally are currently without an education, noting that, girls and disabled children of those living in the areas of conflict
Increasing capacity among policy makers to ensure they apply a 'gender lens' at all levels of trade policy formulation, implementation and negotiation was one of the key recommendations which emerged from an event organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat, in collaboration
