Category : Women’s World

A team of doctors based in Oxford and Kenya launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise £100,000 to develop a game to train healthcare workers on...

  If you empower woman, you empower a nation. Women are the people who are educating the next generation and if we make sure that...

Domestic violence occurs everywhere, and in most countries it’s a criminal offense. But in Papua New Guinea – a Pacific nation near Australia experiencing a...

Justine Henin © Gallo Images Former world No 1s Justine Henin and Marat Safin and long-time doubles standout Helena Sukova were among five nominees to...

When an Ethiopian girl who survives abduction and rape in “Difret” finds safe haven with her lawyer, you may not expect the question she poses...

Women farmers plow their fields in preparation to plant corn in Gnoungouya Village, Guinea on June 15, 2015. Many farmers were highly affected by the...

Cokie van der Velde at the awards ceremony A YORKSHIRE woman was honoured last night at a star-studded event today. Cokie van der Velde was...

Maina Kageni Maina Kageni has once again made his voice heard in regards to the oppression of women by society. Speaking through his Facebook page...

Nawal El Saadawi The ruling that female voters and university lecturers cannot wear a full-face veil does not address the roots of their oppression: a...

A woman, her cousin, her son and her son’s friend carry their belongings as they walk through the United Nations base outside Bentiu, which hosts...

56-year-old Ameenah Gurib-Fakim has just been made president of Mauritius. Take a look at her accomplishments. You’ve heard of a philosopher king. But what about...

Zaha Hadid puts phone down on Radio 4 interview BBC apologises after Radio 4 Today programme wrongly claims 1,200 migrant workers have died building her...

by Laurie A. Couture I have worked as a professional in the human services and as an advocate of social justice for nearly two decades....

Her video for “Wildest Dreams” is set in 1950’s Africa. Here’s what Taylor Swift’s version of Africa in the 1950’s looks like: This is how...

The Social Development Ministry has launched a centre for abused women in Mpumalanga. It will provide basic needs and support for victims. An area plagued...

“ I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service...

Youssef Igrouane Youssef Igrouane is a Moroccan student of English studies at Moulay Ismail University and Morocco World News correspondent in Meknes. Rabat – Moroccan...

Minister for Women in the Presidency, Susan Shabangu, has made a clarion call to women to have unity of purpose as she launched Women’s Month...

While reporting on the drama of African migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, I’ve been startled by how many of them are pregnant or...