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The Mauritanian government says it is trying to increase prosecutions of rape cases but poorly trained judges working with murky, outdated legal texts make for slow progress. (AllAfrica)

Ministers responsible for Gender and Women's Affairs met recently in the Namibian capital, Windhoek, to discuss their draft Protocol on Gender and Development. (AllAfrica)

HUNGER and poverty are, in general, consequences of inadequate and restricted access to land and other resources. (AllAfrica)

THE government may be walking the talk when it comes to the representation of women at all levels, but according to the Business Women's Association (BWA), men in government departments are still paid significantly more than their women colleagues. (AllAfrica)

The group of parliamentarian women of the National Assembly wants to direct its action to maternal protection, mainly in reduction of child and mother death rate, part of the programme on fight against HIV/AIDS and cancer prevention. (AllAfrica)

Twenty workers, most of whom female staff from the Ministry of Family and Women Promotion (Minfamu), were upgraded last April 21-25, in Luanda, as peer educators at their workplace, to carry out preventive campaigns on HIV/Aids and other diseases. (AllAfrica)

THE Central Archdiocesan Caritas Women's Association, an umbrella organisation to promote the socio-economic empowerment of Christian women, has been launched in Namugongo Martyrs' Shrine. (AllAfrica)

WOMEN have been cautioned against wastefulness and investing money borrowed from microfinance institutions in non-productive ventures. (AllAfrica)

SHE has always been considered more than just a woman. She broke all boundaries and ventured into a business that is considered a strictly man's domain. (AllAfrica)

A cross section of Liberian women, who participated in a five-day National Women Conference organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Gender, have underscored the need for certain actions to be taken in advancing women's rights in peace building, recovery and development in the country. (AllAfrica)

Goldman Sachs, a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm is set to empower Rwandan women through business education. (AllAfrica)

Here is His Excellency President Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh's speech delivered by Her Excellency the Vice President Dr Aja Isatou Njie-Saidy at the July 22nd Square yesterday (AllAfrica)

Women's rights organizations namely, African Women's Development Fund (AWDF), Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), Abantu for Development, Women's Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE) and Christian Mothers Association of the Catholic Church have paid a visit to Liberian refugee women at the Buduburam refugee camp. (AllAfrica)

Yesterday marked international women's day celebrations. In the Gambia, it came at the height of a series of conferences and workshops, both locally and regionally sanctioned deliberations, as part of ongoing effort in the promotion of the course of women on this continent in particular and the world in general. (AllAfrica)

Today, May 11, marks Mother's Day - a day when people the world over appreciate their mothers in different ways and with loving gestures. (AllAfrica)

The Kigali School of Finance and Banking (SFB) through its affiliation to William Davidson Institute (WDI) will offer entrepreneurial scholarships to Rwandan women. (AllAfrica)

LAST WEEK'S ANNOUNCEMENT of membership to parliamentary committees should ideally rest the politics and anxieties around their composition in favour of the legislative business they are intended for. (AllAfrica)

Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Ahmed Makarfi, has warned against setting monthly targets for female bankers, urging Nigerians to use the relevant laws to protect themselves against any form of abuse. (AllAfrica)

The Rwanda Association of University Women (RAUW) Thursday celebrated its grand break-through of having 36 percent representation in the Cabinet. (AllAfrica)

The President of MPLA, José Eduardo dos Santos, Friday here guaranteed that the government and the ruling party's programme will pay particular attention to women. (AllAfrica)

The prevalence of HIV/Aids among women and girls involved in commercial sex in Kampala is on the rise. (AllAfrica)

Felitus Kures is a widow living in Kapchorwa, northeastern Uganda. Her husband's death left her solely responsible for their children. (AllAfrica)

Maria is living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) are now more widely available and are supposed to make her life better. (AllAfrica)

When an older man raised his hand to speak on the third day of a gender workshop in Hoedspruit, a rural community in northern South Africa, Bafana Khumalo's heart sank. As the facilitator of the workshop, which specifically targeted men, he had already touched on concepts of manhood and how gender inequality contributed to the sky-rocketing HIV rates in South Africa. (AllAfrica)

Djibouti has become the first country to launch a joint programme by United Nations agencies to move more quickly to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM). (AllAfrica)

Previously in the African setting, single parenthood had a very low percentage compared to other countries in the western world. (AllAfrica)

The Chargé D'Affaires at the German Embassy in Yaounde, Horst Gruner, says despite the fact women are those who generate riches, they are hardest-hit by poverty. (AllAfrica)

Women play a crucial role in the development of society and should therefore be respected, the head of the European Union Delegation in Uganda, Mr Vincent de Visscher has said. (AllAfrica)

Mawuli Dake looks at the ways in which women are being locked out of the democratic processes in Ghana and argues that societies "cannot claim to be committed to the principles and ideals of democracy and the universal values of equality" if groups within are marginalized. (AllAfrica)

KOBIL has offered sh11.8m to Mother Support Initiate, a non-governmental organisation (NGO). (AllAfrica)

Armyworms have invaded Kirinyaga and Tharaka districts, destroying large acreages of food crops and pasture. (AllAfrica)

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