Girls’ Progress = Goals’ Progress: What Counts for Girls
The world’s 1.1 billion girls are part of a large and vibrant global generation poised to take on the future.Yet the ambition for gender equality in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlights the preponderance of disadvantage and discrimination borne by girls everywhere on a daily basis. Only through explicit focus on collecting and analyzing girl-focused, […]
International Day Of The Girl Child – Girls’ Progress equals Goals’ Progress: What Counts for Girls.
On December 19, 2011, United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 66/170 The International Day of the Girl Child focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls face and to promote girls’ empowerment and the fulfilment of their human rights. Adolescent girls have the right to a safe, educated, and healthy life, not […]
Yes! Women Are Rising
Helmut Newton did not give up his passion for fashion photography even when he was an elderly man. Over the many years of his colourful career, he built a reputation for his bold black-and-white images that graced the covers of leading magazines. Although in many of his pictures women posed in their natural suits, Newton […]
Tips To Stay Mentally Healthy
Enjoying mental health means having a sense of wellbeing, being able to function during everyday life and feeling confident to rise to a challenge when the opportunity arises. Just like your physical health, there are actions you can take to increase your mental health. Boost your wellbeing and stay mentally healthy by following a few […]
Cast Out By Custom – How One Kenyan Widow Won The Right To Own Property
Mother of two was sent away from her village in Ngeri-Kisiambi hills in Homa Bay County after she refused to be “inherited” – by another man – following her husband’s death Her husband’s death should have meant banishment from her matrimonial home in western Kenya, according to custom, but Caroline Peres Achieng Oyumbo’s return there […]
Promoting Women’s Rights With Every Brush Stroke On Canvas
Gadi Ramadhani is a 29-year-old visual artist and curator who lives in Dar es Salaam. born in Kigoma, he started drawing as a child and later went to studyDesign Foundation and Print Making in South Africa. Like many young artists, his contribution to the industry has grown immensely over time while he continues to spread […]
Common Mental Health Issues In Women
If you are a woman experiencing depression, an anxiety disorder, or another mental health condition, you are not alone. According to a recent survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 29 million American women, or about 23 percent of the female population, have experienced a diagnosable mental health-related disorder in the last […]
World Mental Health Day : Psychological First Aid
When terrible things happen in our communities, we can reach out a helping hand to those who are affected. Perhaps you find yourself at the scene of an accident where people are hurt. Perhaps you are a health-care worker or teacher talking with someone from your community who has just witnessed the violent death of […]
Khwezi, Zuma’s Rape Accuser, Dead, Family Confirms
Khwezi, the woman who alleged that President Jacob Zuma raped her in 2005 has died, her family confirmed in a statement on Sunday. The family said: It is with our deepest sorrow that the Kuzwayo family announces the passing of our daughter Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo. The family said she was a “loving soul”. There will […]
Girl Asks Judge To Forgive Her Defiler
A girl said to have been defiled three years ago at the age of 14 has asked the judge hearing her case to release the suspect saying she has forgiven him. The girl, a primary four dropout and former pupil of Ober Abic Primary School in Amuru Sub county, Amuru District was allegedly defiled by […]
Three Women To Join Kagame’s African Union Reform Team
At least three eminent women are set to join President Paul Kagame’s team that is charged with spearheading reforms at the African Union. After The EastAfrican exclusively reported the appointment of Carlos Lopes, Donald Kaberuka, Strive Masiyiwa and Acha Leke to the team, one of the president’s 1.5 million Twitter followers questioned why no woman […]
Lagos School Kidnap: We’ll Soon Rescue Victims, Ambode Assures
Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, has assured that the state government in collaboration with security agencies will soon rescue victims kidnapped from Lagos Senior and Junior Model College, Igbonla, Epe, Lagos State. The governor gave the promise on Sunday, just as he said that government would also commence a review of its laws to curb and effectively […]
Over 100 Staff ‘Sacked’ As Recession Hits Nigerian Media
The current economic crisis has forced some Nigerian dailies to cut staff strength in their newsrooms across the country, PREMIUM TIMES learnt weekend. Sources in Leadership Newspaper in Abuja and The Punch in Lagos told PREMIUM TIMES the media giants recently let go of over a hundred journalists between them, citing rising cost of operation […]
APC Clears Ogun LG Election
The Ogun State Independent National Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) yesterday declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) won all the 57 local government and local council development areas chairmanship seats in the state. While announcing the result on behalf of the commission, a commissioner, Mr. Mutiu Agboke, said the APC also won 346 councillorship seats out […]
Uganda: New Curriculum Opens 11, 000 Jobs For Secondary Teachers
The government is to reduce the teacher-to-pupil ratio at secondary schools from the current 1:60 to 1:35, which will require recruitment of an additional 11, 000 if the revised curriculum is to be implemented in 2018 as planned. Mr Mathias Mulumba, curriculum specialist at the National Curriculum Development Centre, told Daily Monitor that a teacher […]