Tag: women
Controlling her future: Why more women, girls are turning to birth control
Contraception helped avert more than 141 million unintended pregnancies, 29 million unsafe abortions and almost 150,000 maternal deaths last year alone as women in lower-middle income countries increasingly resorted to birth control to unlock their economic survival and prosperity.
YOUNG WRITER: Why I miss the old days
It is a great regret that, with deepening mobile technology, ways we used to care for friends and family are now heard only in history. Today we send smiling emojis to friends and family even in moments when we have shades of tears on our faces.
Eyes on Govts in Africa to enact laws to tackle digital violence
It has emerged that lack of legal frameworks in many countries continue to expose women who access the internet to different forms of violence online -- from cyberstalking, unsolicited sexually explicit content, doxing, cyber-bullying, and the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, among others.
KAARIA: Africa has no shortage of talent, we cannot afford to outsource solutions
Dr Susan Kaaria, Director of African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) spoke to us broadly on the role of female researchers and why they are the hope for the continent.
GRASP fellowship opens to female policy makers in Rwanda, more countries
Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the programme targets mid-career African women in the policy field to catalyze the design and implementation of gender-responsive agricultural policies across the African continent.
