While the Marriage Amendment Bill seeks to harmonise marriage laws and address harmful practices like forced marriages and child marriage, the document includes a ban on same-sex ... Read more »

Girls suffered sexual violence and other abuses when armed groups attacked hundreds of schools during the 2016-2017 conflict  in Kasai according to a report from Global ... Read more »

A South African mountaineer reached the top of Mount Everest on Thursday, becoming the first black African woman to conquer the world's highest mountain, her expedition organiser ... Read more »

Despite being a child bride and having three children by 18, Tererai Trent's hard work and belief in her dreams earned her several degrees, and a prominent global platform with ... Read more »

The African Development Bank has been granted $61.8 million by the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative for its program "Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa". ... Read more »

The two top cancers for women are breast and cervical, breast cancer being the leading cause of cancer deaths in women living in developing countries and cervical cancer being the ... Read more »

Women representation in various positions at the UN is still low, despite the organisation's attempts at gender equality, according to Floresha Berisha a human resource officer, ... Read more »

An MSF programme in Malawi is helping thousands of sex workers to overcome barriers to health services, in part by training and employing them as health workers in their ... Read more »

The International Association of Athletic Federations has responded to a letter from the World Medical Association regarding the ethics of the athletics body's gender ... Read more »

In reaction to the loss of the landmark case, Semenya is quoted by The New York Times as saying, "I know that the IAAF's regulations have always targeted me specifically. For a ... Read more »