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Africa: Nearly Everyone Is Biased Against Women, UN Research Finds
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 5 March 2020
Prejudice against women includes thinking that university education is more important for men or that they deserve jobs more Read more »
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Africa: Women's Rights - 25 Years of Progress? or Not?
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 8 March 2020
Despite progress in some areas, equality remains a long way off, with millions of girls and women affected by poverty, violence and discrimination Read more »
International Women's Day 2020 - We Have a Long Way to Go
International Women's Day is marked on March 8 every year. But twenty-five years after the historic Beijing women's conference in China - a milestone in advancing equal rights - violence against women and girls is not only common, but widely accepted, a new UN report says. Advocacy groups say that more than two billion women and girls around the world face missing out on the advantages of their male peers, as progress towards global gender equality goals stalls.
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Daily Maverick, 8 March 2020
Focus group discussions among women in rural Rwanda consistently rank alcohol as the number one factor for violence against women. Stories of victims and the concerns of women in… Read more »
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Nigeria: International Women's Day - Fida Tasks Nigerian Govt On Effective Implementation of Women's Rights
Premium Times, 8 March 2020
Government at all levels should put in place structures that would ensure the effective implementation of women's rights, the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) has… Read more »
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Africa: Equality for 2.1 Billion Women and Girls Under Threat As Progress Stalls
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 5 March 2020
Half the countries that pledged to achieve gender equality by 2030 are on course to fail Read more »
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South Africa: Pepper Spray and Punches - South Africans Ready for Women's Day
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 6 March 2020
South African women are gearing up for International Women's Day on Sunday with pepper spray pop-up stalls and rape prevention workshops so that they feel safer on their daily… Read more »
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Africa: World Remains 'Violent, Highly Discriminatory Place' for Girls - UN
IPS, 4 March 2020
Twenty-five years after the historic Beijing women's conference in China - a milestone in advancing equal rights - violence against women and girls is not only common, but widely… Read more »
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Africa: It Is Time for Action! Uniting for Transformation
IPS, 3 March 2020
Twenty-five years ago, thousands of representatives adopted the Beijing Declaration, one of the most progressive universal agreement to advance women's rights. Read more »
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Africa: Netflix and UN Women Launch Special Collection Curated by Groundbreaking Women in Entertainment
Netflix Media Center, 5 March 2020
Netflix and UN Women today launched “ Because She Watched ” – a special Netflix collection of series, documentaries and films to celebrate International… Read more »
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Africa: Q&A - 'Place Gender Equality At the Heart of Our Work'
IPS, 5 March 2020
Ambassador Mona Juul started her role as the Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations in January 2019, and is also the president of the United Nations Economic and… Read more »
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Africa: We Must Invest Differently to Support Women and Girls
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 5 March 2020
Many of the structural issues at the root of gender inequality are locked in and magnified by our current financial system Read more »
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Africa: There Can Be No Green Peace Without Gender Equality
IPS, 5 March 2020
Gender inequality - like the climate emergency - is not inevitable, but is kept in place by the poor choices too many cis men make on a daily basis. And it is not just womxn who… Read more »
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Africa: Legal Gaps Seen Failing Female 'Sextortion' Victims
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 5 March 2020
Sextortion remains largely hidden as victims often don't report abuse due to stigma Read more »
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Africa: Sexist Economies Where World's 22 Richest Men Have More Wealth Than All the Women in Africa
IPS, 3 March 2020
This International Women's Day, 25 years after we first heard it declared that "women's rights are human rights" at the historic Beijing 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, we… Read more »
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Africa: From Job Bans to Child Marriage, Countries Told to Scrap Sexist Laws
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 2 March 2020
Women only enjoy legal equality in eight countries, found the report, which highlighted issues from men-only jobs to child marriage Read more »
InFocus
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With the ongoing conflicts in Cameroon, Somalia, Nigeria, the Sahel and Mozambique, peace on the continent may seem elusive, but Nigerian-based Joy Ada Onyesoh, president of the ... Read more »
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Four out of the top 10 countries with high women business owner percentages are in Africa. Information on the quality of these women-owned businesses would give an indication of ... Read more »
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How do you prep for heading the world's largest private philanthropy, aimed at significantly reducing poverty and disease? In the case of Mark Suzman, the path began as a working ... Read more »
