Africa: In West Africa's Benin, Women Make Centuries-Old Salt Production Methods Sustainable

It is barely noon, and a group of women sit near the beach on the outskirts of Djégbadji village, in West Africa's Benin, sifting through mounds of salt harvested from the… Read more »

Zimbabwe: How Agrictech Cuts Labour for Zimbabwe's Female Farmers

Long burdened by the labour-intensive nature of agriculture, Zimbabwe's female farmers are finding relief in new agritechnologies that significantly reduce the time they spend in… Read more »

Tanzania: As Global Demand for Gold Grows, UN Mercury Head Warns Toxic Fumes Put Women in a Motherhood Dilemma

Ask any woman miner in the Katoro goldfield in Tanzania's northern Geita region, and she will tell you that she touches toxic mercury with her bare hands when extracting gold from… Read more »

Kenya: Europe Must Not Turn Its Back On Rural Women's Empowerment

In the hard-to-reach rural community of West Pokot, Kenya, 156 young women crossed a threshold that once seemed out of reach. Their graduation from HER Lab, a workforce skills… Read more »

Africa: How the Global Anti-Rights Movement Is Targeting Women's Rights in Africa Through Family Laws

Millions of African women live under laws that deny them equal rights at home. A well-funded global movement is working to make sure it stays that way. Read more »

Kenya: Breaking Cultural Barriers to Equip Marginalised Kenyan Girls With Entrepreneurial Skills

For generations, communities in Kenya's arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) have viewed girls through the lens of marriage, with some being married at 11 in exchange for livestock or… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria - Lessons From the Aba Women's Riots for Today's Women's Movements

The Aba Women's Riots of 1929 remain one of the most powerful demonstrations of Nigerian women's collective resistance. Thousands of market women, farmers, traders, and mothers… Read more »

West Africa: Gambia's Supreme Court to Decide On FGM Ban

Gambia's Supreme Court is considering whether a law protecting women and girls from female genital mutilation (FGM) is constitutional. The practice, common in Gambia, often… Read more »

Africa: Online Abuse Is Real Violence - - and Africa's Women and Girls Are Paying the Price

- New estimates show that violence against women and girls remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world - and that one of its fastest-growing frontiers is… Read more »

South Africa: The Fight Against Femicide - Victories and Setbacks in 2025

Hours before world leaders gathered in Johannesburg for the 2025 G20 summit in November, hundreds of South African women wearing black lay down in a city park for 15 minutes -- one… Read more »

Namibia: Namibia Leads the Way - Honouring 25 Years of Women, Peace and Security

Last November, the streets of Windhoek came alive with the sound of drums and brass as a marching band led a procession of women from Namibia's Defence and security forces. Read more »

Sierra Leone: How Stigma Undermines Contraceptive Use Among Women in Sierra Leone

Eunice Dumbuya, a young activist in Freetown, Sierra Leone, still remembers being called promiscuous after getting a contraceptive implant a few years ago. She knew the risks of an… Read more »

Africa: Banks Embed Climate Risk, Gender and Sustainability in Finance Products

Ahead of the Conference of the Parties (COP30), the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) in Addis Ababa is looking to mobilize billions for renewable energy, sustainable… Read more »

Africa: Feminist Electrification - the Power Africa Needs

Chad is one of the most extreme examples of energy poverty, with just 10% of the population connected to electricity, a rural electrification rate below 2%, and a global per capita… Read more »

Sudan: Women in Sudan Are Starving Faster Than Men - Female-Headed Households Suffer

The food crisis in Sudan is starving more day by day, yet it is affecting women and girls at double the rate compared to men in the same areas. New findings from UN-Women reveal… Read more »

Africa: Women From Landlocked Developing Countries Set Sights On Open Horizons

"Progress towards gender equality and equity remains uneven and far too slow. One in four women in landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) live in extreme poverty, and this is… Read more »

Africa: Protect Women's Rights, Especially in a Time of Equality Backlash, Say Activists

Discriminatory laws and the absence of legal protections impact more than 2.5 billion women and girls worldwide in various ways. Legal reform is paramount to securing gender… Read more »

Africa: Gender-Discriminatory Nationality Laws Are Fueling Poverty & Violence Against Women

Around a quarter of countries still have nationality laws that deny women the same rights as men to acquire, retain, or change their citizenship, or to pass citizenship onto their… Read more »

Africa: Hlpf 2025 - Civil Society Is Not a Service Provider - We Are the Frontline of Transformation

NEW YORK, Jul 16 2025 (IPS) - As delegates gather in New York over the coming weeks for the 2025 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), we see this moment as a test. A test of whether… Read more »

Africa: Multi-Year Drought Gives Birth to Extremist Violence, Girls Most Vulnerable

While droughts creep in stealthily, their impacts are often more devastating and far-reaching than any other disaster. Inter-community conflict, extremist violence, and violence… Read more »

South Africa: From Parliaments to the G20 - a Call to Champion Women's Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights

By Priyanka Chaturvedi, Mokhothu Makhalanyane and Rajat Khosla Read more »

Africa: Women and War - Victims of Violence and Voices of Peace

In 2023, approximately 612 million women and girls lived within 50 kilometers of a conflict zone, more than 50 percent higher than a decade ago. During war, they disproportionately… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's Water Wars Kill Scores

Water scarcity is fuelling deadly inter-ethnic wars that continue to claim lives in Kenya, according to government officials. And if nothing is done to educate communities on how… Read more »

Mauritania: Women Struggle for Equality, Says Rights Lawyer

 Mauritania formally adopted the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in 2001, but in the eight years since, it has had limited effect on the status… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Women As an Antidote to Corruption?

Sierra Leone will hold general elections Saturday with a number of significant achievements in hand, not least maintaining peace for five years. Read more »