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African women farmers, an untapped goldmine
In Africa, Women grow most of the crops and perform most of the farm labor, as they do in much of the developing world,...
Uganda court says dowry for brides is legal
Uganda supreme court has ruled that bride price should stay after an appeal by MIFUMI, an NGO based in eastern Uganda.
MIFUMI went to court...
The Black woman’s new look
"Naked woman, black woman. Dressed in your color that is life, in your form that is beauty!", reads the famous line from Leopold Senghor's...
International Donors Must Fund Female-Controlled HIV Prevention Gel
After over twenty years of searching in the scientific wilderness, researchers have developed an effective vaginal microbicide gel that can block HIV transmission. ...
Endometriosis: A mystery pain and the female sexual organ
Intense pain during periods, when urinating or during sexual intercourse, often associated with difficulty conceiving a baby … this is the unfortunate lot of...
Why Good Governance Matters More in Africa Than Aid
Heads of state from across the developing world arrived in New York last week for the annual United Nations meetings. Heading up the agenda...
Uganda: Shocking numbers of underage girls give birth on streets
Statistics from a recent survey carried out by a Ugandan NGO has revealed that a shocking number of over one hundred and thirty babies...
The bright spots of Millenium Development Goals in Africa
Various reports by the United Nations and other international organizations have shown that Africa is facing enormous challenges in achieving the world's anti-poverty Millennium...
Iron deficiency connected to Vegetarian diet?
Daily iron requirements are particularly high for women before they reach the menopause. This is of course due in part to the blood loss...
Women beware of wood dust
Women who in the course of their work are exposed to wood dust are at greater risk of developing asthma, coughs and chronic bronchitis...
Medically assisted procreation on the rise
Medically assisted procreation (MAP) is on the increase. And according to an international study, between 219,000 and 246,000 children are born worldwide thanks to...
Treating vulva infections or vulvitis
Does your little girl complain of itching or pain when urinating or during the day? Is her vulva red and inflamed?
Take her to the...
The ‘long walk’ to equality for African women
Africa’s political independence was accompanied by a common clarion call to eradicate poverty, illiteracy and disease. Fifty years after the end of colonial, the...
Africa’s women turn 50
Fifty years ago, 17 African countries threw off the brutal and degrading yoke of colonialism. The 50th anniversary of African national liberation is...
Miss Black Connecticut Crowned Miss Black USA® 2010 in the Nation’s Capital
Miss Black Connecticut USA, Osas Ighodaro, is the new Miss Black USA® 2010. She immediately gave praise of thanksgiving to God during her...
A call for sex workers’ rights in Africa
African governments must reconsider their legal and policy posture towards sex work in order to respect and uphold African sex workers’ human rights. ...
Ethiopia: U.S. foreign policy and unsafe abortion in Africa
United States foreign policy abortion restrictions have often hampered African NGOs’ efforts to reduce deaths and disabilities associated with unsafe abortion procedures. In a...
Africa: Pregnant with possibility
The news of a pregnancy should ideally be met with joy – but all too often there is justifiable fear. The African Union Summit...
4.4 million children die each year in Africa
Civil society organizations in Africa are crying out loud to be heard on the burden of alarmingly high maternal and infant mortality rates, and...
Venus Williams Accepts YWCA GLA Phenomenal Woman of the Year Award and Speaks at Graduation
The YWCA Greater Los Angeles (YWCA GLA) honored multiple grand slam tennis champion and entrepreneur Venus Williams yesterday with the Phenomenal Woman of the...
Kenya: A Preventable Childbirth Injury That Ruins Lives
Tens of thousands of Kenyan women and girls suffer from obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury causing leakage of urine and feces, a direct result...
Do women need a sex pill?
"The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research...
Ethiopia: African ambassador’s spouses charity bazaar, to donate aids in support of the needy in Addis Ababa
As a follow up of the fund raising bazaar organised in March 2010 by the African Ambassadors' Spouses Group in Addis Ababa (AASG), at...
Ugandan women seek UN ban on Female Genital Cutting
Ugandan women civil organizations and politicians want the banning of
female genital mutilation (FGM) to be effected worldwide.
Uganda recently passed a law in parliament banning...
League of Black Women Going Global With its 7th Annual Leadership Conference ‘Black Women 2010 Global Ready’ in Tampa, FL
Professional, high-ranking Black women from around the country will convene to discuss Black women's prospects for global leadership at the League of Black Women's...
Unison Agency Announces New Brand Identity and Website for Raise Hope for Congo Music Compilation
COMPILATION TO HELP STOP THE WORLD'S WORST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN & GIRLS RESULTING FROM CONFLICT IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO -- PHYSICAL...
In Liberia women follow in president’s footsteps
Four years after voters in Liberia, battered by decades of dictatorship, economic ruin and civil war, elected a no-nonsense former banker and UN official,...
15,000 British women strip for a cause
There was a lot of cleavage on display on Saturday night as 15,000 women, most wearing decorated bra's, gathered in Hyde park for the...
Fixing the mutilated vagina
A cut clitoris can be repaired. For about 3 decades now, Pierre Foldès, a French urologist, has been restoring clitorises that have fallen prey...
Color Magazine Announces Inaugural Women of Color Leadership and Empowerment Forum
Color Magazine announced today the launching of their second signature event, The Women of Color Leadership and Empowerment Forum on Thursday, June 24th at...