Marshet Zelalem: A young Ethiopian girl leading big changes in her community (A UNESCO Feature)

05 november 2019 - 16:39:01 VAO

Hawassa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Marshet Zelalem grew up in a rural village in Oromia, Ethiopia, and she was so timid that she was afraid to [...] Full text...

Senegal to manufacture organic sanitary napkins to treat infections affecting women

31 october 2019 - 17:58:47 MTA

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - The non-governmental organization (NGO), "Cause Première", based in Ziguinchor, in partnership with the French Association "PC Coup d'Pouce", will build a [...] Full text...

UNFPA coordinates implementation of 2020 strategy to combat gender-based violence in Libya

30 october 2019 - 10:58:30 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Thirty-five representatives of the Ministries of Social Affairs, Education, Health and Justice of the Libyan Government of National Accord in Tripoli [...] Full text...

Marriages to female minors canceled in Senegal, thanks to NGO Enda JA

29 october 2019 - 18:20:58 KND

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - The progress report of the "Her Choice" project, implemented in the southern and eastern regions of Senegal - Kolda, Sedhiou and [...] Full text...

Socialist Women's Summit opens Tuesday in Niamey

28 october 2019 - 18:39:15 KND

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou on Monday received the Secretary General of the Socialist International, Luis Ayala, in Niger for the summit of [...] Full text...

Incidents linked to GBV in Mali rose by 57 pct between January, August

24 october 2019 - 22:31:00 MSA

Bamako, Mali (PANA)  - Incidents linked to gender-based violence (GBV) recorded in Mali between January and August 2019 rose by 57 percent, compared with the [...] Full text...

Top UN official says gender equality ‘precursor’ to sustaining peace, sustainable dev't

22 october 2019 - 05:36:04 MA

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The UN deputy chief has told African Union’s Peace and Security Council that gender equality is key to sustaining peace and [...] Full text...

Niger to raise women's quota for elected and nominated positions

19 october 2019 - 16:13:10 KND

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The Nigerien government approved a bill on Friday to increase women's quotas in senior positions of state. The quotas go up from [...] Full text...

Burundi govt regards rural women's access to sustainable infrastructure, social protection services as top priority

15 october 2019 - 17:09:16 KND

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi on Tuesday celebrated the International Rural Women's Day on a formal commitment to "support access to sustainable infrastructure and social [...] Full text...

Human Rights Watch urges Mauritania's new president to take key steps for women’s rights

15 october 2019 - 06:53:53 MA

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Human Rights Watch on Tuesday sent a letter to Mauritania's new president Mohamed Ould Ghazouani urging him to prioritise women’s rights during [...] Full text...

Mali launches national annual children schooling campaign

14 october 2019 - 23:44:46 MSA

The campaign is in response to the high rate of non-schooled children and for their access to special education needs, said the same sources. According to [...] Full text...

Community-led enforcement shows the way to end child marriage in Ethiopia (A UNFPA feature)

11 october 2019 - 19:39:21 VAO

Kola, Tembein, Ethiopia (PANA) – Earlier this year, Haderu Gebray, 15, and her parents were arrested for planning her wedding to an older man she [...] Full text...

Sudan gets first woman Chief Justice

10 october 2019 - 18:40:39 MO

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Ms. Nimat Abdulla Mohamed Al-Khair, a veteran judge, has been appointed Sudan's Chief Justice, the first ever female to assume the [...] Full text...

Young girls leaders forum opens in Niger

10 october 2019 - 18:27:54 KND

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The first Young Girls Leaders Forum, organized by the NGO New Challenge, in partnership with the Ministry for the Promotion of [...] Full text...

Tigist, a young teacher, is making gender equality through education a reality in Ethiopia (A UNESCO Feature)

04 october 2019 - 19:46:16 VAO

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - As a young girl growing up in rural Seydebir in Semien Shewa, Ethiopia, Tigist had to walk for an hour to [...] Full text...

Prestigious 'Who is Who' award won by Moroccan woman

04 october 2019 - 10:08:00 BBA

Athens, Greece (PANA) - The prestigious 'Who is Who' award for women leaders in the world has been awarded in Athens to a Moroccan woman, [...] Full text...

UNGA 2019: AfDB announces new accountability index to measure institutional lending to women

03 october 2019 - 18:40:14 VAO

New York, US (PANA) - A new tool to track the level of lending to women across Africa will be important for ensuring that women [...] Full text...

UNGA 2019: 'Hands off our girls!' - African first ladies cry out

27 september 2019 - 18:16:08 VAO

New York, US (PANA) - Africa’s first ladies, led by Sierra Leone Fatima Maada Bio, brought their campaign to ban early child marriage and sexual [...] Full text...

Gambia’s First Lady Barrow, other African First Ladies reiterate call for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment

26 september 2019 - 17:13:15 MSS

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia's First Lady, Fatoumatta Bah-Barrow, and her colleague African First Ladies of the Organisation of African First Ladies – OAFLAD - [...] Full text...

Gambia's First Lady, Barrow, receives distinguished global award for excellence at the UN

22 september 2019 - 16:57:24 MSS

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian First Lady, Fatoumatta Bah-Barrow, has been honoured with the Distinguished Global Award for Excellence on the sidelines of the 74th [...] Full text...

Congo: Women's advisory council commits against female discrimination

20 september 2019 - 21:25:23 KND

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA)   -   Antoinette Kebi, executive secretary of the Advisory Council for Women, said here Thursday her institution planned to identify problems that hindered [...] Full text...

Rwanda court denies bail to senior official accused of assaulting spouse

12 september 2019 - 13:12:02 TWA

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The primary court of Muhoza in Musanze, a district in northern Rwanda, has remanded the former vice mayor in charge of [...] Full text...

Niger hosts workshop on Women entrepreneurs in West Africa

04 september 2019 - 16:44:19 KND

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - A regional capacity-building workshop for women entrepreneurs in West Africa began Wednesday in Niamey, Niger, to develop and consolidate the quality [...] Full text...

AU delegation encourages women participation Sudan’s peace process

28 august 2019 - 13:40:36 MO

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A high-level delegation of African Union (AU) women leaders has started a five-day mission to Sudan by bringing together  women activists [...] Full text...

Mali officials sensitized on fighting child sexual exploitation

26 august 2019 - 12:24:34 BBA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Magistrates, police officers and social workers on identification of child victims of exploitation have completed a sensitisation workshop on the fight [...] Full text...

Widows of Malian soldiers who died in conflicts soon to have multifunctional center

21 august 2019 - 18:25:51 KND

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Widows of Malian soldiers and paramilitaries who died in theaters of operations will be equipped with a multifunctional center whose foundation [...] Full text...

Injustices persisit against women in Tunisian society

14 august 2019 - 12:38:56 BBA

Tunis Tunisia (PANA) - Injustices against Tunisian women persist despite the existence of a legal instrument that was proclaimed soon after independence in 1956 to [...] Full text...

'Gender-based violence, the unfinished business of our time' (A UN Feature)

10 august 2019 - 07:52:58 VAO

New York, US (PANA) - Women and girls represent half of the world’s population and, therefore, also half of its potential, therefore gender equality, besides [...] Full text...

South Africa: Ramaphosa slams violence against women

09 august 2019 - 16:51:13 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa on Friday termed violence against women as a national crisis and “the worst [...] Full text...

UN demands Cape Verde' gives priority to gender equality

26 july 2019 - 14:05:41 KND

Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has recommended that the Cape Verde Government give [...] Full text...

Orphans project launched in Bamako to sponsor 10,000 orphaned children

24 july 2019 - 23:34:43 MTA

Bamako, Mali (PANA)   -   Mrs Kéïta Aminata Maïga, Malian First Lady, and president of AGIR, a non=governmental organization (NGO), Tuesday launched the "Orphans Project" here [...] Full text...

Special Representative of UN Secretary-Gneral for children, armed conflict visits Mali

09 july 2019 - 21:05:20 MSA

Bamako, Mali (PANA)   -  The special representative of the UN Secretary-General for children and armed conflicts, Virginia Gamba, will visit Mali from 9 - 13 [...] Full text...

U.S. marathoner, Khadevis Robinson, visits Zimbabwe to raise awareness on gender-based violence

09 july 2019 - 16:13:47 T Z

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The United States Embassy in Zimbabwe is hosting American Olympian marathoner, Khadevis Robinson, in the southern African nation for the next [...] Full text...

G7 France/UNESCO Int'l Conference - Innovating for girls' and women's empowerment through education

05 july 2019 - 15:11:54 VAO

Paris, France (PANA) - Girls’ education is one of the most effective investments for development, yielding not only individual but also broadersocietal benefits.   Despite considerable progress [...] Full text...

Gambia promises investigations into rape allegations against senior foreign ministry official

02 july 2019 - 09:18:56 MLJ

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The Gambian government on Monday promised to investigate sexual assault allegations levelled against a senior official of the foreign ministry.    In [...] Full text...

Senegal: USAID launches a program of more than 300 million CFAF for women's empowerment

28 june 2019 - 18:37:29 KND

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - USAID, under the program, Sabunimaa, and in partnership with the Union Santa Yalla of Ziguinchor that brings together women's organizations at [...] Full text...

Amnesty International joins suit against gov't banning pregnant girls from public schools

27 june 2019 - 04:44:04 MA

Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Amnesty International says it has joined a legal case brought by two non-governmental organizations, Equality Now and WAVES, to challenge the [...] Full text...

Gambia’s ex-dictator, Yahya Jammeh, accused of rape, sexual assault

26 june 2019 - 19:00:28 MLJ

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – Rights groups on Wednesday accused former Gambian dictator, Yahya Jammeh, of rape and sexual assault against women while in power.   According to [...] Full text...

New UN report on families in a changing world puts ‘women’s rights at their core’

26 june 2019 - 02:30:49 MA

New York, US (PANA) - While women’s rights have advanced over the decades, gender inequalities and other fundamental human rights violations within families persist, according [...] Full text...

Ensure that widows are ‘not left out or left behind’ - UN chief

23 june 2019 - 00:47:09 MA

New York, US (PANA) - On International Widow’s Day, marked on Sunday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is asking everyone to reflect on the “economic hardship [...] Full text...

Guterres says ripple effect of sexual violence in conflict threatens ‘collective security’

20 june 2019 - 06:45:46 MA

New York, US (PANA) - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has reiterated that sexual violence in conflict is a “threat to our collective security” and [...] Full text...

Women in Botswana venture into construction industry

17 june 2019 - 16:47:43 M S

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA)-   In the past only men pursued careers in the built environment, but the 21st century woman is defying culture, tradition and all [...] Full text...

Third world summit of "Women in Africa" to be held in June in Morocco

14 june 2019 - 20:46:02 MSA

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA)   -   The third edition of the world summit of ‘Women in Africa Initiative (WIA)’, an international platform for economic development and [...] Full text...

Burkinabè elected to Committee for protection of rights of migrant workers

11 june 2019 - 18:13:04 MSA

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – Burkinabè Myriam Poussi, was on Monday elected to the UN seat in New York as member of the Committee for [...] Full text...

NGO deplores low representation of women in science

30 may 2019 - 21:05:04 MTA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA)   -   The president of the Congolese Foundation for Medical Research (FCRM), Professor Francine Ntoumi, on Thursday deplored the low representation of women [...] Full text...

Niger minister calls for integration of menstrual hygiene at all levels

29 may 2019 - 04:59:24 MTA

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The Niger Minister of Water and Sanitation, Professor Garba Katambé, on Tuesday urged development partners, civil society and non-governmental organizations to [...] Full text...

1st-ever crises conference on Gender-Based Violence holds in Oslo

26 may 2019 - 10:32:53 VAO

  Oslo, Norway (PANA) - One-in-three girls or women will experience physical or sexual violence in her lifetime, and “the risk multiplies” during a conflict or [...] Full text...

DR Congo's Josephine Uwase Ndeze wins Miss Geek Africa award 2019

17 may 2019 - 01:45:23 TWA

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA)  -  Congolese female innovator Josephine Uwase Ndeze was named Miss Geek Africa 2019 at the Transform Africa Summit held Thursday in Kigali, [...] Full text...

SADC launches Regional Women’s Network for Prison Services

15 may 2019 - 20:25:27 M S

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - To facilitate the SADC Protocol on Gender and indeed the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, the Ministerial Committee of [...] Full text...

Regional experts urge ECOWAS Commission to redouble efforts on gender mainstreaming

10 may 2019 - 11:43:11 MA

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Regional experts on gender and elections have ended a two-day workshop in Accra, Ghana, calling on the ECOWAS Commission to intensify [...] Full text...