A women group under the banner “the United Women for Peace and Reconciliation” has held a mass rally to raise funds to support Girl’s education in Monrovia and its environs.

A lecture on domestic violence occurred Thursday at district command of Fire-Fighter Department in Kuito, central Bié province, under the promotion of the Association of Angolan Police Women (AMPA).

FEW constitutions go so far as Namibia's to explicitly cover affirmative action for women.

The Women Journalists Forum for Gender Equality on Thursday at the Journalist Training Centre (Cefojor) played a video which contains testimonies of women who have experienced domestic violence.

The Angolan health authorities registered in the year 2009 that at least 254,471 citizens are HIV/Aids positive, 149.386 of whom are women.

The deputy governor of Luanda province, Juvelina Imperial, said Thursday here that the Government's house construction programme will also cater for the victims of domestic violence.

GENDER inequality remains rampant globally, with only 20 out of 128 economies reported to have equal legal rights for men and women in key issues for entrepreneurs and workers, a new World Bank report on Women, Business and the Law 2010 has shown.

THE wife of Elder Anyim Ude who represents Ebonyi South Senatorial District, Elder (Mrs.) Grace Anyim-Ude, was last Sunday conferred with the prestigious title of Virtuous Mother of the Year (2010) by the Women's Guild of Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Abakaliki Urban Parish, Ebonyi State.

An all-female United Nations police force in Liberia is inspiring Liberian women to engage with the national security sector. Women continue to excel as UN police officers, and through active community outreach and the efforts of the Liberian government, women's participation in Liberia's security sector has increased over the past years.

Needy women in Dekemhare sub-zone are registering improvement in their standard of living as a result of the assistance extended to them by the Government in collaboration with partners.

International Women's Day is over and we are back to the stark reality of the 364 other days. The debate and harsh exchanges about women's participation in politics have left us with a bitter after-taste.

Mothers are said to be the pillars of the human existence. They can get water out of the rock, and in their dictionary, there seems to be no impossibility.

Prison authorities are investigating circumstances under which a man spent two days in Luzira Women's Prison ward. '

The Acholi cultural institution has launched a five-year fight against the rampant domestic violence in the region as the internally displaced persons return to their villages.

Parliament has urged the Government to prioritise the fight against cervical cancer by providing vaccination to all adolescent girls.

The head of Zimbabwe's biggest industry body believes that the economy will be poorer if women do not participate to their full potential.

Family and Women Promotion minister, Genoveva Lino, stated Thursday in Luanda that violence against women is one of the main points of the country's national political agenda, due to the high number of victims of ill-treatment in the Angolan society.

It is not yet clear if Senator Gbemisola Saraki has made any moves suggesting that she is in the gubernatorial race for Kwara State. However, what I gather from media reports is that a handful of individuals from the Muslim community in the state have declared their opposition to any notion of seeking to occupy Government House, Ilorin. It is their contention that the tenets of Islam and the teachings of Prophet Mohammed do not allow for a woman to lead a community of Muslim men.