Tag: women

Investing in girls’ education from an early age is essential for building their resilience and financial independence. Research has shown why women join violent extremist groups in...

North West Acting Premier Motlalepula Rosho has commended women in law enforcement agencies for their sterling work of ensuring law and order in different...

South African language tutor Debbie Odumuko has already survived a shootout in a grocery store since fighting between rival taxi drivers resurfaced in Cape...

Only about half of women and girls in developing countries are able to make decisions over their own bodies such as whether they want...

A 96-page document released this month is a South African government-led roadmap for action as regards women, peace and security. It aims, according to Naledi...

The number of women in jail globally has soared by 17% in a decade, despite leaders’ pledges to put fewer women behind bars for...

The transition period could set the tone for new norms that future governments could live by. On 26 September, hundreds of Malian women and some...

More than 70% of displaced and refugee women in Africa have seen a rise in domestic violence in their communities during the coronavirus pandemic,...

An Egyptian court sentenced five female social media influencers to two years each in prison on Monday after finding them guilty of promoting immorality...

After six years abroad, Khadija Saleh returned to Sudan in March to join street protesters demanding change. She was part of a sit-in near the...

Violence against women is an indicator of how prone societies are towards violence. Almost two decades since countries across the world adopted United Nations...

Notwithstanding greater participation of women in building and sustaining peace and recognition of the value they bring, realities on the ground show...

Government and rebel forces in South Sudan abducted hundreds of women and girls this year with many raped and forced into sexual...

Women's involvement in Boko Haram attacks in the Lake Chad Basin is well known. However their role in the activities of the...

Young women are increasingly at risk of harm during violent conflicts, as seen in the disturbing trend of mass kidnappings, sexual assaults...

Hundreds of women took to the streets in the Tunisian capital to demand equal inheritance rights, a subject often seen as taboo...

According to the United Nations migration agency up to 80% of Nigerian migrant women and girls arriving on Europe's shores in Italy...

All three new additions to the Armscor board are women. They are Jeanette Ndlovu, Tinyiko Mhlari and Clarinda Simpson. The announcement was made...

When Islamic State militants brutally invaded her hometown of Kobani in Syria, Shorash didn't initially see it as a career opportunity. Grabbing...

Failing to improve the lives of girls and women trapped in poverty and domestic drudgery in north-east Nigeria could drive them into...

Several women blew themselves up on Friday in suicide attacks that killed four Libyan soldiers who had granted them safe passage to...

Female members of Boko Haram are almost as likely as men to be deployed as fighters in north-east Nigeria, challenging a widespread...

Three robed women tricked their way into a Mombasa police station where they stabbed one officer and set fire to the building...

As Women's Month draws to a close, Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula points out women have achieved much in the...

Thousands of women took to the streets of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe on Thursday to demand free education for their children as protests...

South Africa's female military veterans have organised an association to pursue and promote, among others, economic empowerment. Sally Dlamini of the MK Military...

"We see you as family," Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf last week told the women of the all-female Indian police unit serving in...

Zuhura Salim was not entirely sure her family would ever recover a piece of land her father-in-law seized when her husband died...

‘We have had enough of Boko Haram.' This was the message from Nigerian women who marched peacefully in a number of cities...

One year after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, then-President George W. Bush told a gathering at the White House: "Every woman in...

Arab women played a central role in the Arab Spring, but their hopes the revolts would bring greater freedom and expanded rights...

The 2013 International Association of Women Police (IAWP) Training Conference in South Africa will coincide with the 100th anniversary of Policing in...

Women are to be allowed to serve on UK submarines for the first time in the Royal Navy's history, the Secretary of...

Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro called for greater effort to raise the number of women holding senior positions at the United Nations, saying...

The women turned heads as they got on Jerusalem's number 56 bus. Startled ultra-Orthodox Jewish men looked away as the group mounted a...

Women should voice demands about their rights during the popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world to avoid being short-changed by post-revolutionary governments,...

Tunisia's secularist women are mobilising to defend their western lifestyle after the Islamist Ennahda party swept the country's first free election and...

When hundreds of Tunisians drove through the capital sounding their horns and waving scarves this week to celebrate the election victory of...

Saudi Arabia's king announced women would be given the right to vote and stand in elections, a bold shift in the ultra-conservative...

ADDRESS BY L N SISULU, MP, MINISTER OF DEFENCE AND MILITARY VETERANS AT PARADE IN COMMEMORATION OF WOMEN'S MONTH Chief of the SANDF,...

Most safe-houses in the Gaza Strip are meant to provide protection for armed militants on Israel's target list. Now Gaza is offering...