Giving life is a leading cause of death of women and girls on the continent where access to contraception is increasingly seen as a life-or-death issue in an acute crisis ... Read more »
South African minister, Lulu Xingwana, has stated that women should not fear voicing their opinions about the Traditional Courts Bill in public hearings currently underway. Read more »
A Lagos Court has declared illegal, a law forbidding policewomen to marry without the consent of the commissioner of police. Read more »
An increase in women's representation in the country's new parliament, following elections, has been hailed as a step towards democratic reform and gender equality. Read more »
Women's organisations and Aids activists have spoken out against senator Morgan Femai's comments over women having to shave their heads and shun bathing in order to curb the spread ... Read more »
Zanu-PF minister, Ignatius Chombo, has urged traditional leaders to banish people who support homosexuality from their communities. Read more »
Throughout the 15 years of conflict in the country, violence against women, especially sexual abuse and rape, has been a widespread phenomenon. Read more »
Two years into what the African Union has declared the "Women's Decade", President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and her Malawian counterpart President Joyce Banda have both ... Read more »
The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the most dangerous countries in the world in which to conceive. Over her lifetime, a Congolese woman faces a one in 24 chance of dying ... Read more »
Three women accused of raping 17 men, allegedly for witchcraft, have been acquitted after a magistrate found no evidence against them. Read more »
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