With the support of MONUC's Gender Office, the DRC Gender, Family and Children Ministry from 28 June to 1 July 2008 trained the heads of the provincial Gender ministries and civil society activists from all the DRC's 11 provinces on

Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, wife of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential aspirant, has pledged to champion the cause of women when she becomes the First Lady.

Concerned Okrika women have advised detractors of the first lady, Hajia Turai Yar' adua and the vice-president's wife, Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan to stop antagonizing the two women and allow them to concentrate on their philanthropic and charity initiatives for

Members of the ANC Women's League have gathered in Mangaung, in the Free State for their 11th elective conference from 2 July 2008. The conference ends on Sunday 6 July 2008. This year the ANC Women's League will focus on

Right Reverend Daniel Yinka-Sarfo, Anglican Bishop of Kumasi, has charged Ghanaian women to use their God-given talents to contribute meaningfully to national development.

In their bid to rally quality support for their idol club, Accra Hearts of Oak ladies has acquired a new set of musical instruments worth millions of Cedis, and has consequently outdoored the items at the club's secretariat, in Accra.

Outgoing World Health Organization (WHO) Country Representative Dr. Eugene Nyarko has called on the Liberian government to place more emphasis on maternal health.

The acting Minister of Health, Dr. Muhammad Lawal, has said that between 500,000 and 1 million women now live with fistulae which has made them outcasts.

Annette* is a small, lively woman in her early sixties. Married to an abusive husband -- who once threw boiling water on her, landing her in hospital -- she was not repeating the story with her alcoholic and drug-addicted son.