Efforts are underway to improve literacy in Liberia, but teachers, students and the government faced numerous challenges as the new school year began on September 1. This is a ... Read more »
There are growing fears that increasing numbers of women candidates and voters may not participate in the 2011 general elections because of an upsurge in election-related violence. Read more »
A new report from Amnesty International focuses on the effect of slum life on Kenyan women in Nairobi. Read more »
Landmark trials have begun after a group of HIV positive women said they were sterilized by the state without their consent. Read more »
Social activist Mamphela Ramphele will become the first black woman to chair the board of a major mining house. She becomes chairwoman of Gold Fields, one of whose founders was ... Read more »
Parliamentarians from all over Africa are pushing for a continent-wide ban on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and are calling on the UN to pass a General Assembly ... Read more »
The conflict in eastern DRC has been marked by a number of human rights abuses. Although the extent of the sexual violence is not known, it is estimated that tens of thousands of ... Read more »
A lack of contraceptives in Uganda has dire consequences for women's reproductive health rights. Read more »
Hundreds of women from Plateau state staged peaceful demonstrations in Abuja and Jos at the killing of hundreds of people in the state. Read more »
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