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That women and girls are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS is well established, but a new report reveals how little we know about what countries are doing, or not doing, to address their vulnerability. (AllAfrica)

As Kenya contemplates a policy shift from rain-fed agriculture to irrigation, some women in North Eastern Province are ahead of the game: they have turned to rain water harvesting for food production and their efforts are bearing fruit. (AllAfrica)

A new report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has revealed that poor women especially in Africa will be hardest hit by climate change because they are the poorest but also adds that they hold the key to climate change solutions. (AllAfrica)

Birchwood Conference Centre, Boksburg (AllAfrica)

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday led a chorus of United Nations officials in calling on the international community to make greater efforts to tackle the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. (AllAfrica)

Tunisia is observing on November 25, 2009, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. (AllAfrica)

THE Niger Delta Women's Movement for Peace and Development, a non-governmental organisation, has suggested that global climate change could be addressed through human security lens and said it requires immediate global action to mitigate and adapt to the climate changes. (AllAfrica)

The Bank of Industry (BOI) has disbursed N2 billion under its cooperative lending scheme to assist women, its Managing Director has said.Mrs. Evyln Oputu said this at a two-day entrepreneurial empowerment workshop last week in Abuja. (AllAfrica)

Sokoto State Government has disbursed a sum of N5 million to 100 women under the State Poverty Eradication Scheme. (AllAfrica)

Hon. (Mrs.) Uche Ekwunife currently represents Anaocha/Njikoka/Dunukofia federal constituency of Anambra State in the House of Representatives. Having defeated five other contestants at the governorship primaries of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Ekwunife proudly emerged the party's candidate for the February 6, 2010 governorship election in the state. In this interview with Charles Onyekamuo, Ekwunife speaks on her candidature, gender and programmes (AllAfrica)

Progressive Women's Movement of South Africa (PWMSA) Convener, Baleka Mbete, has called on families to stop protecting abusers of women and children. (AllAfrica)

WOMEN activists have expressed worry over the delay by the Police and courts to dispose of gender-related violence cases. (AllAfrica)

THE Sadc Parliamentary Forum Regional Women's Parliamentary Caucus has expressed concern over the apparent decline in the number of women in decision-making positions in most African countries. (AllAfrica)

Some 100 children under five years of age will die today in Zimbabwe, a bleak statistic that is part of new social development data released by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Government, revealing that the situation there for women and children has deteriorated in the past five years. (AllAfrica)

Minister of Women, Children and People living with Disabilities, Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya, has called for perpetrators of abuse towards women and children to be given stiff sentences. (AllAfrica)

She ran to the Police seeking justice against the monster who had defiled her but her flight only led her in the hands of another defiler. (AllAfrica)

The Angolan minister of Science and Technology, Cândida Teixeira, advised Sunday in Luanda, Angolan young women to engage in training, especially in courses of social sciences, for the country's continuous growth. (AllAfrica)

A landmark report on the status of women in Africa says there is a distinct gap between intention and implementation in relation to women's rights and equality. (AllAfrica)

A wide cross section of experts, civil society organizations and key stakeholders with an interest in women's empowerment and gender equality agreed on a way forward to improve the lives of African women. (AllAfrica)

Mrs. Julia Dolly Joiner indicated her appreciation for the support provided by the host, the Government of the Gambia o to promote the efforts "to take forward an initiative that establishes hope that Africa would be able to shape its own women's advancement agenda." (AllAfrica)

The World Health Organisation (WHO) country representative, Dr. Joaquim Saweka, has called on legislators to use their powers to remove legal barriers and facilitate women and children to access essential care, reports Milton Olupot. (AllAfrica)

WOMAN rights activists have hailed Uganda for its progress in the fight against violence. (AllAfrica)

THE relevance of Julius Malema's intention when he made comments about President Jacob Zuma 's rape accuser was debated at the Equality Court in Johannesburg yesterday. (AllAfrica)

COUNTRIES with high gender inequality gaps are more likely to have hunger and malnutrition, says a report released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). (AllAfrica)

THE standard of living for women and children in Zimbabwe has deteriorated significantly in the past four years, a recent Govenment study has shown. (AllAfrica)

THIS year the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI) and Friends of FEPACI South Africa (FOFSA) honoured two women in the Media, Dorcas Hove and Linda Mvusi. (AllAfrica)

At least 350 teenage girls are to be circumcised in the next two weeks in Marakwet East and Pokot Central districts. (AllAfrica)

With Namibia's National Assembly and Presidential elections around the corner the issue of equitable women's representation at the highest levels of political decision-making has been placed at the centre of the election agenda. (AllAfrica)

Twenty-one-year old widow, Santa Auma remembers the day four men, armed with spears and knives stormed her hut at about 3:35am on March 20, 2008, and robbed her. Then they took turns raping her and her 20-year-old niece. Auma decided to fight back. She and her niece went to the hospital and then to the Police. One of the attackers was arrested and is in jail awaiting trial. (AllAfrica)

Leaders of the pressure group, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), on Monday took their message of peace to the White House in the United States, where they were presented with a prestigious human rights award by US President Barack Obama. (AllAfrica)

The full text of remarks by President Barack Obama at the presentation to Magodonga Mahlangu and Jenni Williams of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) of the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on November 23, 2009. (AllAfrica)

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