31-May-2017 to 10:39

APA-Gaborone (Botswana) — The chairperson of Botswana Parliamentary Caucus on Women, Botlogile Tshireletso has condemned the country’s parliament for restricting and dictating what women should wear before they could be allowed to enter chambers of the August House, the Patriot newspaper reported here Wednesday.

19-May-2017 to 05:40

APA-Pretoria (South Africa) — Amid rising gender-based violence in the country, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Des van Rooyen has said that abusers, murderers and rapists have no place in South Africa.

18-May-2017 to 14:30

APA-Nairobi (Kenya) — President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday officially opened the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) regional conference hosted by the Kenya Women Judges Association (KWJA).

17-May-2017 to 05:51

APA-Pretoria (South Africa) — President Jacob Zuma has appealed to South Africans to unite against recent attacks on women and children as well as human trafficking, following some gruesome killings perpetrated by males in parts of the country.

05-May-2017 to 19:22

APA-Dakar (Senegal) — “Any West African integration policy must take gender equality into account,” Awudu Ahmed Gumah, the head of Planning, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation at the Center of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for Gender Development (CCDG) argued on Friday in Dakar.

05-May-2017 to 12:26

APA-Gaborone (Botswana) — Ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) Women’s Wing has expressed gratitude at government’s decision to sign the SADC Gender Protocol following the review of the protocol, APA learnt here Friday.

27-Apr-2017 to 13:56

APA-Gaborone (Botswana) — Botswana said on Thursday that it has taken a decision to sign the revised Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development.