Browsing: Gender

Malawian women have given notice of plans to stage protests on Friday against their alleged side lining from political and governance affairs, as the honeymoon for President Lazarus Chakwera appears to be fast coming to an end.

While notable progress has been made in alleviating the plight of women and girls around the world, billions of them are still discriminated against and marginalised in the workplace, at home and in broader society, President Cyril Ramaphosa has said.

South Africa is determined in its fight against gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) in the country by strengthening its laws to rein in these vices, Cabinet said on Friday.

South Africans must end femicide and strive to always protect the women and children in the country, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday.

Amnesty International’s South African branch on Thursday urged the government and its people to end the rampant impunity surrounding Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in the country.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has told his compatriots that the country was now fighting two pandemics against the coronavirus and gender based violence (GBV) whose victims are women and children.

A surge in murders of women and children following the ease of the coronavirus lockdown restrictions in the country should be condemned by all South Africans as “shameful and simply cannot continue,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Saturday.

The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) paid tribute to the Rwandan female peacekeeper Police Constable (PC) Enid Mbabazi who was killed by COVID-19 earlier last week after being repatriated home.

For 44-year old Ugandan, Jane Werikhe, making the transition from teaching to the male-dominated metal-welding industry has been far from seamless but not only has she survived after seven years. She has also thrived.

They may still be living in an unequal world – dispossessed and discriminated against in the 21st century – but Nigerian women appear to be punching above their strength.