August 31, 2012 (VIBE Ghana )
With peace agreements ending wars across Africa, local communities are embarking on rebuilding and revival. The course is daunting: not only to generate productive livelihoods in difficult economic times, but also to avoid new eruptions of violence. African civil organizations are well placed for such efforts, notes Chukwuemeka Eze, programme director of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), a regional civil society group headquartered in Accra, Ghana.
August 31, 2012 (Noble Women's Initiatives)
Journalists often play a key role in disseminating information about human rights. As such, journalists are often threatened, attacked, and killed in an attempt to silence their voice. Women journalists and journalists who work to defend women's human rights are particularly vulnerable and at risk because of their identity and the nature of work that they do. Women journalists, such as Dina Meza in Honduras, receive specific threats of sexual violence because it points to the view that women are objects for manipulation.
August 28, 2012 (Women's News Network )
37 year old Fawzia Koofi, Afghanistan's first female parliamentary speaker, is currently a leading candidate for the country's 2014 presidential elections. Her recently published memoir “The Favored Daughter,” is reaching a global audience. It has now been sold in 20 different countries and published in English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish. As much as “The Favored Daughter” is a political memoir it is also a story about relationships between women, mothers, daughters, and strangers.
August 24, 2012 (Al Jazeera)
Somalia has recently selected its parliament on Somali soil for the first time since the civil war of the late 1980s. This is a significant achievement since regional power brokers such as Ethiopia and Kenya, with the financial and logistical backing of the European Union, the United States and the United Nations, concocted Somali governments in neighbouring countries.
August 24, 2012 (Coastweek)
Kenyan's new constitution is not only a historic landmark for Kenya, but a milestone in the East African women's rights movement. It has opened the widest space for women's participation in public decision making, more so through Article 27, Kenya has joined its sister countries of East Africa in the use of constitutional quotas to advance women's political participation.
August 22, 2012 (ROJ Women)
Under the slogan ‘'together to administer our areas autonomously'' the permanent People's Council in Western Kurdistan has held its second meeting.
August 18, 2012 (Daily News)
At a press conference on Thursday, regarding the presentation to President Mahinda Rajapaksa of the Sri Lankan Women's Agenda on Peace, Security and Development, Parliamentarian Rosy Senanayake said that the number of women in Parliament should rise to at least 20 percent.
August 12, 2012 (UN Women)
Conversations have taken a livelier turn at dinner tables across Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), according to one young Bosnian woman. “We live in patriarchal community in BiH, and during family meals there are often discussions about what men and women should do – about women's obligations at home,” says project coordinator Nejra Kadic, 23, with a wide smile. “Although myself and my friends might once have made small comments, now there are good arguments! We can really try to convince others why women should work, for example, and not only be domestic.”
August 09, 2012 (Los Angeles Times)
Four recent cases of women slain allegedly at the hand of either a husband or father have prompted women and human rights groups to demand tougher Palestinian laws against domestic violence.
August 03, 2012 (AfriqueJet.com)
On the first of her two-day visit to Senegal, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Wednesday hailed the increasing role of women in the country's politics, especially the election of 65 women into its 150-member National Assembly (parliament), PANA reported from here.
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