Nigeria has accounted for 10% of the 5.2 million global maternal deaths, research finding released by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) showed.
In May 2008, a group of civil society activists launched a campaign to reform Kenya's archaic abortion laws, sparking a countrywide debate. Now, as a new draft bill on women's reproductive health and rights seeking to decriminalise abortions is set to be tabled in parliament, the battle lines between opponents and advocates of abortion are clearly drawn.
Algerian women do most of the work at home, and Ramadan is no exception. They go to work, shop, cook, and prepare the table for iftar. By end of the month, they are exhausted, but their work continues.
George Oundo and Kiiza Brendah have been released from Nabweru Police Station today where they were accused and apprehended for ‘recruiting people into homosexuality'.
Zimbabwean women have experienced higher levels of trauma, including violence and lack of food, after the country's independence from Britain in 1980 than before.
Four sculptured teenagers created by Danish Jens Galschiot will be crucified on 4 metre high crosses of copper at the European Social forum in Malmo, Sweden.
Gender training as a concrete mechanism for building capacity for gender mainstreaming, and a way to make development cooperation more inclusive and responsive, has been implemented, since the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995.
Rwanda is on course to become the first country in the world where women MPs outnumber men. The small central African country, known for one of the worst genocides of modern times, is now comparatively stable and the elections passed off peacefully.
Joyce and Tanya are two women of different ages, nationalities, cultures, and religions. They are both victims of what Inés Alberdi calls a missing goal, gender based violence.
A research conducted in the Cote d'Ivoire revealed that a combination ARV therapy significantly reduces the risk of women with advanced HIV disease having an HIV-infected baby.
The South African Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival ended last Sunday in Johannesburg with the Cape Town festival running until 21 September.
On September 10, an article in Uganda's news website, New Vision depicted women of Rwanda being imported in exchange for oil. In this article, Grace Kwinjeh, a senior reporter of Rwanda's The New Times newspaper expresses her thougts on the cartoon and also questions the editor's ethical conduct.
