‘Improve Broadcast Codes to Help Strengthen Gender Equality in Media’
The media has the power to influence, spread information and messages across countries and across the entire world, it is the most powerful sector that serves to inform, influence and entertain. As the world concludes the marking of the 30th anniversary of the Global 16 Days Campaign which raises awareness about gender-based violence, different media […]
Trial Begins In Challenge To California Women On Boards Law
Opening statements got underway on Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging the legality of California’s law requiring publicly held companies to include women on their boards, a case that will test the state’s authority to address disparities in corporate power. Three California taxpayers will seek to show the law amounts to sex discrimination in violation of […]
Protests over, Indian farmers Pin Hope On Price Support
Indian farmers ended a year of protests on Thursday after winning unexpected concessions from the government that have raised hopes of higher earnings for the poorest growers. Farmers had blockaded the capital New Delhi to protest government plans to deregulate a sector that employs nearly half the country’s 1.3 billion people, arguing the reforms threatened […]
Signs You’re In An Emotionally Abusive Relationship
Abusive relationships can be difficult to escape for lots of reasons—fear, denial, and dependence being just a few. And abuse can come in many forms. Some types of abuse, like hitting and sexual violence, are physical. Other types, like psychological and emotional abuse, can be harder to recognize, yet maybe just as damaging. Psychological or […]
8 Low-Calorie Cocktails That Will Help You Stick to Your Healthy Eating Goals
You know the feeling: You’re catching up with friends over cocktails, and suddenly as you drain your second drink you’re thinking, Whoa, how many calories did I just sip? Cocktails are sugary, and sugar equals calories. The good news is, there are plenty of ways to tweak classic recipes so they won’t ruin your healthy eating goals. Below, […]
Loans Keep Women Afloat As They Plant Fast-Vanishing Mangroves In Kenya
When she was growing up, Tima Abudhi remembers watching her neighbours cut away at the mangrove forests around her village on Pate Island, on Kenya’s east coast, chopping down the coastal trees to build houses or to sell as timber. As the mangroves disappeared, so did the fish that live and breed among their roots […]
Female Genital Mutilation Practice Still Prevalent in Oyo, Osun and Ekiti – UN Report
A survey funded by the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund), on the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Oyo, Osun and Ekiti States has shown that in spite of the gains that have been made in the reduction of the practice, its prevalence in the three states […]
Women Raise Funds for Hospitals
The objective is to improve health recovery by at least 50 per cent. Women mobilised under the association, “Action Plus Feminine Bikok”, abbreviated Act+Feb, have raised financial and material support to salvage Pouma District Hospital and seven health centres in the Pouma Subdivision. A fundraiser by the association was held in Douala’s administrative quarter Bonanjo […]
CPJ Says ‘Ethiopia Biggest Setback for Media Freedom in Sub-Saharan Africa’ – Two Journalists Shot Dead, a Dozen Remain Behind Bars in 2021
In its 2021 report on the global status of press freedom, the Committee to Protect Journalists ranked Ethiopia among the worst jailers of journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa after Eritrea. The report that was released today revealed that in Ethiopia in 2021, one journalist was killed and nine remain in prison. An earlier report that was released yesterday […]
Human Rights Day
Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December — the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR is a milestone document, which proclaims the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being – regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, […]
Chimamanda, Malala, Gates Others Listed On BBC’s 100 Most Inspiring Women of 2021
The BBC has named renowned Nigerian author and feminist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, on its annual list of 100 inspiring and impactful women in the world for 2021. Among others listed are the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate winner, Malala Yousafzai; Samoa’s first Female Prime Minister, Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa; Professor Heidi J Larson, who heads the […]
Jonglei Violence Leaves 32 Dead
An incident report released by South Sudan’s Jonglei State governor has revealed that at least 32 people were killed in November in various attacks in the region. In the report that featured six counties, Governor Denay Chagor said the incidents that left nine people injured were mainly linked to cattle raids and road ambushes. “Several […]
In conservative Egypt, Women Seek Low-Cost Ways To ‘Prove’ Virginity
She advertises her surgeries discreetly as a “health and beauty” service, but the gynaecologist offering hymen reconstruction operations to women in rural Egypt says they save lives. In conservative societies such as Egypt, an “intact” hymen – the thin tissue that may partially cover the vagina – is still widely seen as confirming virginity. For brides, […]
Recovery Centre Brings Hope to GBV Victims in Homa Bay
Before December 2020, victims of gender-based violence (GBV) in Homa Bay County who sought medical assistance from public hospitals would go back home after being attended to by medics without any other form of assistance. No one from the hospitals seemed to care enough to find out what had happened to them. At the outpatient […]
Govt Slams UK for Placing Nigeria On Covid-19 Red List
The Federal Government has condemned the decision of the United Kingdom to put Nigeria on the red list and place a ban on foreign travels originating from the country following the discovery of Omicron, the new variant of COVID-19 in some Nigerian travellers. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who addressed the press […]