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ESSENCE Names Veteran Beauty Journalist Corynne L. Corbett as Its New Beauty Director
ESSENCE names Corynne L. Corbett as its new beauty director, it was announced today by editor-in-chief Angela Burt-Murray. In this new role, Corbett will...
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and Ad Council Report Increase in Awareness of Lupus Among Women
Twenty-two percent of 18-44 year old women in the United States reported hearing more about lupus compared to a year ago, according to a...
Innovation in Uganda: Professional Development that Makes a Difference
Social enterprise, PEPAL, in collaboration with LSE, brings its Innovation Programme to sub-Saharan Africa. Professionals from across the globe will be paired with partners...
World takes a stand against genital mutilation
The push for a ban on female circumcision in Africa has been taken to the United Nations, as 27 African countries and International activists...
Nigeria: Senator marries 13-year old, rights activists appalled
A Nigerian senator, who introduced and implemented Sharia Law in a Northern Nigeria state, has married a 13 year old girl from Egypt, and...
NCAAOM Says Comcast’s Policy of Zero Percent African American Owned Channels Must Change
The National Coalition of African American Owned Media (NCAAOM) today praised the FCC's decision to extend the comment period for the controversial proposed merger...
USADF Signs Two Grants to Support Marginalized Populations in Burundi
In an effort to work with under-served groups to alleviate poverty, the United States African Development Foundation (USADF) recently awarded two grants with organizations...
Ugandan women appeal to Museveni over sex and boreholes
Women in the northern Ugandan district of Yumbe, 400 kms north west of the capital Kampala, have complained that their inability to get...
Liya Kebede on the silver screen with Waris Dirie
After the catwalk comes the silver screen. Liya Kebede depicts Waris Dirie in Desert Flower, a biopic directed by Sherry Hormann about the former...
Ruder Finn’s Travel Practice EVP Gail Moaney Named Among Top Twenty-Five Influential Black Women in Business
Ruder Finn's travel and economic development EVP & Director, Gail L. Moaney, has been selected as one of The Network Journal's "25 Influential Black...
Africa: Cleaning out armies’ ranks to protect women
The massacre of nearly 200 opposition demonstrators in Conakry, Guinea, in late September 2009 shocked Africa and the world. Beyond the sheer brutality of...
DRC: Prostitutes claim their rights
Beatings, insults, rape ... Prostitutes in the city of Mbuji Mayi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) live very tough lives. Rejected by...
Women Around The World Urged To Come Together And’ Join Me On The Bridge’ On March 8th 2010
Unprecedented call to action by "Women for Women International" to unite globally and build bridges for peace, development and opportunity
To honor the resilience of...
UN Envoy lauds Nigeria for enhancing women’s role in peacekeeping missions
The head of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), Ellen Margrethe Løj, has applauded the commitment of Nigeria to involve more women in...
Burundi: Female ex-combatants picking up the pieces
By age 15, Annonciata Nduwimana was an accomplished fighter for Burundi's opposition Forces nationales de liberation (FNL) and knew how to kill in battle.
"My...
Zimbabwe crisis: Constitutional reform and elections delayed as women protest
Zimbabwe has suspended indefinitely the drafting of a constitution due
to disagreements on the composition of outreach teams further deepening the country's political crisis.
It was...
South Sudan launches Sudan Household Health Survey
The Federal and South Sudan Ministries of Health, have jointly launched Sudan Household Health Survey.
The survey which is to start...
Women, key MDG actors, should be empowered!
At the recent Food Security Summit in Rome world leaders unanimously renewed their pledge to eradicate hunger. The South-South Summit in Nairobi this week...
Uganda police save underage Sudanese from forced marriage, mother on the run
Police in Uganda have stopped a forced marriage between a 17 year old girl and a 56 year old southern Sudanese soldier from taking...
London: Beauty pageant, scam, disenchantment
The beauty pageant was supposed to be the most memorable day of their lives. Yet, for the bevy of beauties gathered here, their dream...
Sudan Trouser woman: “I may not return to Sudan”
The Sudanese journalist briefly jailed for wearing "indecent trousers" said Wednesday she might not return to her country but instead continue her campaign for...
Gender Experts Urged to Recommit to Improving the Lives of African Women
Gender experts, civil society organizations and governments representatives were urged to commit themselves to action towards equality and empowerment of African women.
"It is high...
Sex, Rock and High Heels
"...Nobody holds a candle to me
In my red high heels..."
Kellie Pickler, “Red High Heels”
I’ve always been a sucker for high-heeled shoes. Long,...
Uganda first lady urges men to embrace family planning
The biggest ever international family planning conference yesterday night opened in Uganda's capital Kampala with over 2000 delagates from all over the world participating....
Michelle Obama on Mr. Right
The U.S. first lady is a real wealth of wisdom and a mine of good counsel. In the latest issue of Glamour magazine, Michelle...
Black Women prone to deadlier breast cancer than White counterparts
African women and women of African descent are likely to die younger from breast cancer than any other ethnic group, investigations have revealed. Researchers...
Battered men in Morocco shy away from shame
Battered men often choose to hide their agony so as not to be rejected by society. In Morocco, an association and a retired social...
Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein prefers prison to a $200 fine
Arrested on the 3rd of July along with twelve other women in a restaurant in Khartoum for wearing a pair of trousers, Lubna Ahmed...
African women making real headway in Politics
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became the first elected black female head of state in 2005 when Liberia’s voters elected her president with a...
Sudan: Lubna’s trouser war, a call for Islamic law review?
The highly publicized trial of Ahmed Lubna al-Hussein was rescheduled Tuesday to take place next month. Lubna , a journalist by profession, was sentenced...