Dec
23
From: http://ips.net
By Miriam Gathigah
TORIT, southern Sudan - All day Rosalinda Duany sells vegetables from her stall at the local market, earning a living to feed her family while her husband spends his days idling with his friends. But when his days become too boring and he demands his conjugal rights, [...]
Dec
21
From: http://allafrica.com
The alarming rate in rape cases featured prominently Thursday at the opening of a four-day National Rural Women’s Conference, which also launched a National Gender Policy.
Addressing participants at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex during the opening ceremony officially launching the Policy, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf described widespread cases [...]
Dec
18
By Salma Ahmad Kano
From: http://ipsnews.net
Twenty-four years after ratification of CEDAW, early marriage - and with it, the end of many girls’ education - is just one of the persisting obstacles to gender equality in Nigeria.
KANO - Nigeria ratified the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in [...]
Dec
16
By: Bestina Magutu
From: http://pambazuka.org
Men and women with disabilities face many challenges in Southern Africa, especially related to discrimination and access to services. For many women, this also means that they face challenges when accessing health care services at one of the times when it is most important – when they [...]
Dec
15
From : http://cineuropa.org
Synopsis
Two young girls – who have been neighbours and friends since they were children – experience their first amorous emotions. Myriam is engaged to Simon, a doctor who is much older than her. Nour loves her cousin Khaled, whom she wants to marry. One of the girls is Jewish, [...]
