COVID-19: Health systems struggle to cope as gender -based violence rises

11 july 2020 - 17:24:54 AR

New York, US (PANA) – The COVID crisis has taken a staggering toll on people, communities and economies everywhere. Yet not everyone is affected equally, [...] Full text...

UN Committee stands with women, girls in global anti-racism protests

11 july 2020 - 14:45:39 AR

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN women's rights committee has called for a new era of human rights and gender justice, stressing that the lives [...] Full text...

COVID-19: UN expert calls for end to gender-based violence against women journalists

09 july 2020 - 03:55:40 AR

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Women journalists face particular dangers while going about their work, an independent UN expert told the UN Human Rights Council on [...] Full text...

Gambia: UNFPA calls for urgent, accelerated action to stop FGM, child marriage

30 june 2020 - 16:55:18 MSS

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - At least 19 harmful practices, ranging from breast ironing to virginity testing, are considered human rights violations, according to a report [...] Full text...

COVID-19: UNDP, Congo sign deal to revive women's income-generating activities

30 june 2020 - 16:02:44 KND

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Congolese Ministry for Integration of Women in Development on Tuesday signed an agreement in [...] Full text...

Harmful practices rob women, girls of ‘right to reach their full potential’ - UNFPA

30 june 2020 - 06:17:16 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Urgent, and accelerated action is needed to end female genital mutilation, child marriage, and other “harmful practices” and abuses carried out [...] Full text...

UNSMIL reiterates its call for accountability for crimes targeting women in Libya

26 june 2020 - 14:16:39 AR

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Full and effective participation of women in public life, including all political processes and peace building initiatives remains essential and a [...] Full text...

Teachers and mothers join forces to keep girls in school in Malawi (A UNFPA Feature)

23 june 2020 - 17:37:03 VAO

Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) – Isaac Zatha, the headmaster of Chapita Primary School in the Malawian district of Salima, spent years watching his girl students disappear [...] Full text...

Armed groups, terrorist movements accused of sexual violence in northern and central Mali

23 june 2020 - 15:16:22 KND

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Certain armed groups and terrorist movements have been responsible for sexual violence, particularly in northern and central Mali, according to a [...] Full text...

Gender lens essential to addressing linked climate change, security crises - UN report

09 june 2020 - 14:11:53 AR

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - As countries reel from the devastating social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, gender inequality is shaping the experience of [...] Full text...

UNDP, GCCI sign MoU on Gender Equality Seal for Private Sector Programme in Gambia

03 june 2020 - 17:25:59 MSS

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) office in The Gambia and The Gambia Chamber of Commerce & Industry (GCCI) have signed [...] Full text...

Women in Peacekeeping: A Key to Peace (A UN feature)

31 may 2020 - 13:32:44 VAO

New York, US (PANA) - The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, celebrated worldwide on 29 May, offers a chance to pay tribute to the [...] Full text...

Coronavirus: EU extends BReST project support to Gambian women, children in response to COVID-19 outbreak

28 may 2020 - 17:18:37 MSS

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The European Union (EU) is to extend the successful Building Resilience through Social Transfers-(BReST) project being implemented by UNICEF, the National [...] Full text...

Coronavirus: West African women excluded from pandemic info sharing, key decision making - Report

21 may 2020 - 11:36:55 DJ

Abidjan, Ivory Coast (PANA) - Women are excluded from information sharing on Covid-19 and from key high level decision making processes at national and regional [...] Full text...

UNESCO puts spotlight on women’s voices in imagining the world to come

18 may 2020 - 13:32:02 AR

Paris, France (PANA) - UNESCO has invited leading women thinkers, artists and activists from fields ranging from climatology to international relations through physics and African [...] Full text...

Mali's Mama Koité Doumbia to head the ICC Trust Fund for Victims' Board of Directors

05 may 2020 - 14:33:34 MTA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Mama Koité Doumbia was unanimously elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the Trust Fund for Victims recognized by [...] Full text...

Sudan passes law incriminating FGM

28 april 2020 - 21:48:26 MO

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government Tuesday passed a law criminalizing female genital mutilation(FGM), a law pushed back so many times during the rule [...] Full text...

COVID-19 measures must factor in specific needs of women, say UN experts

20 april 2020 - 14:55:54 AR

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) ­– Governments must ensure women from diverse groups and backgrounds are included in decisions at the local, national and international level in [...] Full text...

AfDB approves Gender Equality Trust Fund for women’s economic empowerment

06 april 2020 - 11:09:30 MA

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a new Gender Equality Trust Fund (GETF) aimed [...] Full text...

UN chief slams 'horrifying surge' in domestic violence

06 april 2020 - 08:48:30 MA

New York, US (PANA) - UN chief António Guterres is calling for measures to address a “horrifying global surge in domestic violence” directed towards women [...] Full text...

Rights group lauds Sierra Leone's decision to allow pregnant girls or mothers to attend school

01 april 2020 - 09:49:00 MA

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Human Rights Watch has lauded the decision of the Sierra Leone government to allow girls who are pregnant or have a child [...] Full text...

Libyan Foreign Ministry raises fate of missing MP Siham Sergewa

09 march 2020 - 12:03:14 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of National Accord (GNA) has raised the fate of the disappeared member [...] Full text...

UN official urges women to push for gender equality

09 march 2020 - 06:19:15 MSS

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The UN resident coordinator in The Gambia has tasked women to push for gender equality in order to make the goal [...] Full text...

Burkinabè president meets women on International Women's Day

09 march 2020 - 06:03:23 MSA

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – Burkina Faso's president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré on Sunday met with women during celebrations marking international women’s day. The day was [...] Full text...

Gender equality remains priority in SADC region – Executive Secretary

08 march 2020 - 16:05:43 AR

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Gender equality remains a priority in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region as challenges continue to hamper efforts [...] Full text...

UNSMIL hails achievements of Libyan women despite the inequalities they face

08 march 2020 - 12:58:15 MTA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has paid tribute to Libyan women on the occasion of  International Women's Day, [...] Full text...

International Women’s Day: Gender equality benefits everyone - Chief of UN Women

06 march 2020 - 20:15:04 MA

New York, US (PANA) - The benefits of gender equality are not just for women and girls, but “for everyone whose lives will be changed [...] Full text...

Governments should fulfil women’s rights pledges, says Human Rights Watch

06 march 2020 - 09:21:34 MA

New York, US (PANA) – Governments should mark International Women’s Day on Sunday with moves to expedite progress on gender equality, Human Rights Watch said [...] Full text...

Nearly 90 per cent of all people have ‘a deeply ingrained bias’ against women - Report

06 march 2020 - 05:43:25 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Despite decades of progress in closing the gender equality gap, close to nine out of 10 men and women around [...] Full text...

Tunisia: African women leaders network to be launched in June

05 march 2020 - 22:15:20 MSA

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Altogether, 40 African active women leaders in different walks of life (civil society, Parliament, information and technology) on Thursday took part [...] Full text...

Women learners at accelerated schooling centres in western Mali receive USAID kits

01 march 2020 - 16:56:27 MTA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The USAID-Mali project, entitled "Leadership and Empowerment of Girls through Education," just handed out school kits, bicycles, sewing machines and birth [...] Full text...

ECCAS delegates meet in Brazzaville to discuss gender, agricultural action plan

28 february 2020 - 21:59:52 MSA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA)  - Delegates from the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) met here Friday to validate the organization’s gender and agriculture action [...] Full text...

Congo: Towards validation of action plan to accompany ECCAS women

26 february 2020 - 21:30:13 MSA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA)  - Representatives of different departments of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and experts from the UN Food and Agriculture [...] Full text...

UN human rights chief warns of women’s rights complacency

26 february 2020 - 05:58:40 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has warned against complacency on women’s rights at an event marking the [...] Full text...

Guinean mining company director rewarded by World Bank

21 february 2020 - 20:52:19 MSA

Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinean Aïssatou Béavogui, managing director of Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC) S.A, has been declared winner of the prestigious “MIGA Gender CEO [...] Full text...

WB Cotonou organizes public lecture on Gender equality

16 february 2020 - 16:47:22 MTA

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The World Bank's Cotonou Office on Saturday organized a public lecture on gender equality designed to evaluate public policies in Benin. The [...] Full text...

Guterres highlights teenage girls' education to achieve development goals

12 february 2020 - 07:22:04 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Promoting education for adolescent girls is an “indispensable foundation for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals”,  Secretary-General António Guterres declared at [...] Full text...

AU Summit: AU, UN launch book on outstanding African women, women-led organisations

09 february 2020 - 06:35:21 MA

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, on Saturday joined dignitaries attending the AU Summit for the launch of a book jointly [...] Full text...

WHO says Female Genital Mutilation costs $1.4 billion annually

06 february 2020 - 06:03:08 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) not only poses serious risks to the health and well-being of women and girls, but it also exacts a crippling economic toll, according to [...] Full text...

Botswana calls for women, children to be key stakeholders in peace negotiations

17 january 2020 - 07:29:49 DRW

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana has called for women and children to be key stakeholders in peace negotiations and reconciliation talks. Speaking on Thursday at the [...] Full text...

Lives of traumatized, displaced women in Sudan's West Darfur under threat

15 january 2020 - 20:14:28 MA

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Ongoing instability in Sudan’s West Darfur region has left the lives, health and safety of thousands of women hanging in the [...] Full text...

Botswana man murders two-year-old child

07 january 2020 - 15:27:55 M S

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - A man has appeared before the Lobatse court for an unusual gender based violence (GBV) case, after murdering a two-year-old girl [...] Full text...

Women for Peace in Casamance calls for mobilization of energies for definitive peace in south of Senegal

03 january 2020 - 22:11:37 KND

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - The president of the Women for Peace Platform in Casamance, Ndèye Marie Thiam, Thursday launched an appeal for the mobilization of [...] Full text...

Senegal Women's Platform for Peace in Casamance commits to eradicating obstetric fistula

24 december 2019 - 13:14:02 BBA

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - The Women's Platform for Peace in Casamance, southern Senegal, with support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Ziguinchor [...] Full text...

U.S. Embassy donates towards gender-based violence fight in Botswana

20 december 2019 - 11:52:03 M S

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The US Ambassador to Botswana, Craig Cloud, has presented money and gifts to the Botswana Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Support Centre [...] Full text...

Women represent 54 pct of members of Congo’s Economic, Social and Environmental Council

16 december 2019 - 22:59:35 MSA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA)  -  Clement Mouamba, Congolese prime minister, said here Monday the economic, social and environmental council (CESE) had become the first government institution [...] Full text...

Bamako hosts session on draft law against gender-based violence

12 december 2019 - 12:33:37 BBA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali is the fifth African country with the highest prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting, Mali's Minister for the Promotion of Women, [...] Full text...

Mauritius plans observatory for gender-based violence

10 december 2019 - 13:48:34 NA

Balaclava, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius  will soon set up an observatory for gender-based violence (GBV) to address issues related to GBV cases which are matters [...] Full text...

Tunisia hosts meeting on 'Violence against women and the digital space'

02 december 2019 - 15:45:56 KND

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Center for Research, Studies, Documentation and Information on Women in Tunis (CREDIF) is organizing a meeting on Violence against women [...] Full text...

Nigeria launches national sex offenders register

26 november 2019 - 05:54:44 MON

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria's Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday launched the first national sexual offenders register and called for stiffer sanctions them. He also said [...] Full text...