Anne Barth, a first-time candidate for the House of Representatives, won the Democrat primary last night in West Virginia. She won by a margin of about 2-1, reports the Charleston Gazette. She had been the state di...
Women's groups are calling for a gendered response to aid relief in Myanmar brought on by the cyclone that ravaged the country over the weekend. Women and children are affected uniquely in situations of natural disasters. They are typically poorer,
A study recently released by the Guttmacher Institute found that 28 million American women annually are at risk for an unintended pregnancy every year. The study (see PDF) found that half o...
The under representation of women in the management of higher educational institutions in Nigeria was the focus of a round table organised by Accessure Educational, an advocacy group on education, in conjunction with the Goethe-Institut Lagos, recently. Uchechukwu Nnaike reports
Modern family planning methods can save Ugandan mothers from the excesses of motherhood, if only their husbands could cooperate, writes Bamuturaki Musinguzi
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was a featured speaker Monday at the Women for a Better World Conference held in Niger. A special guest of the President of Niger, Mamadou Tandja, the President spoke candidly about Liberia's challenges as they relate
Equality of rights for women is a basic principle of the United Nations. The Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations sets as one of the Organization's central goals the reaffirmation of "faith in fundamental human rights, in the
is a network of Gender Focal Points in United Nations offices, specialized agencies, funds and programmes. The Network has played a central role in promoting gender equality throughout the United Nations system and in follow-up to the Fourth World Conference
A new CD-ROM issued by the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women provides easy access to 25 years of work of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. Following an introduction and overview of the Committee's
The group of parliamentarian women of the National Assembly wants to direct its action to maternal protection, mainly in reduction of child and mother death rate, part of the programme on fight against HIV/AIDS and cancer prevention.
Twenty workers, most of whom female staff from the Ministry of Family and Women Promotion (Minfamu), were upgraded last April 21-25, in Luanda, as peer educators at their workplace, to carry out preventive campaigns on HIV/Aids and other diseases.
The Mauritanian government says it is trying to increase prosecutions of rape cases but poorly trained judges working with murky, outdated legal texts make for slow progress.
