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The curse of diamonds: How Zimbabwe's wealth is failing its people
I was listening this morning as the Minister of Mines, Winston Chitando, boasted over Zimbabwe's increasing diamond production. Indeed, Zimbabwe's diamond industry has long been touted as a be...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 15:09hrs | 962 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's wife misses UN women's conference over 'visa complications'
First lady Auxillia Mnangagwa failed to attend a United Nations conference on women's rights this week after what has been described as "visa complications", ZimLive reported.The 68th Session ...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 18:10hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa congratulates Gumbonzvanda
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa today met the newly appointed Deputy Director for Normative Support, United Nations System Coordination and Programme Results at the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and t...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean activist lands top UN post
ZIMBABWEAN-BORN girls and women rights advocate Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda has landed a top post at the United Nations in another global milestone for local female professionals.UN secretary-gene...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 05:59hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda tells women to fight for positions
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda says women should campaign fearlessly and outcompete men for political positions to achieve gender equality.He said this while launching a handbo...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Majority of Zimbabwe youths unhappy
A RECENT Afrobarometer perception index on how governments are addressing the needs of young people has ranked Zimbabwe 11 out of the 34 countries surveyed in terms of meaningful youth empowerment....Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe pleads victimisation after Parly recall
EMBATTLED MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe yesterday angrily reacted to her recall from Parliament, and said she had written to the United Nations protesting alleged victimisation by the Executive and Leg...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mwonzora expels Thokozani Khupe from Parliament
MDC Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora has recalled MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe from parliament. This was revealed by Khupe during a press conference held on Wednesday...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 09:41hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Underfunding irks Nyoni
SITHEMBISO Nyoni, the Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) minister, is one of Zimbabwe's longest serving Cabinet ministers. But she has the hardest assignment in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government ...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:40hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to accelerate Marriages Bill
THE Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) has urged the government and parliament to speedily conclude crafting of the Marriages Bill to aid the fight against Gender Based Violence (GBV).Speaki...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:15hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Girls in Zimbabwe are still technologically backwards
Labour Economists and Afrikan Democrats (LEAD) President Linda Tsungirirai Masarira has said girls in Zimbabwe are still technologically backwards.He said this as the nation celebrates the Int...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Women politicians discriminating against each other
BEHIND every successful man is a woman, is a tired cliché in reference to the fact that a man's achievements are made possible by the support and work of their wife or female partner.In one o...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:43hrs | 1 | by Musa Makina
Fighting HIV and AIDS in times of COVID-19
The World AIDS Day is marked every on 1st December every year to raise awareness about the disease. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is the UN entity tasked with fighting HIV in...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:37hrs | 1 | by Zipporah Musau
Zimbabwe's deepening human rights crisis under the cover of lockdown
The outbreak of the coronavirus in Africa has exerted social, economic, political, health and environmental challenges on a continent that was already on its knees.These challenges thus pose a...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Sitabile Dewa
Dozens of laws should be repealed in Gambia
The Commonwealth has said dozens of discriminatory gender laws should be repealed or revised in The Gambia to guarantee equal rights for women and girls within the legal framework.A report - p...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 16:40hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's wife ropes in chiefs' wives for women initiative
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa will this week meet with wives of traditional leaders to map strategies to end child abuse, girl child marriages, gender-based violence, rape cases and prostitution in ru...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 14:07hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt must compensate victims of army rape
Women rights activists have petitioned government to compensate women who were allegedly raped during a brutal crackdown by the military to crush protests against fuel prices.Dozens of women m...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why is Zimbabwe in this situation, God of Zimbabwe where are you?
Sanctions are normally described as International relations: Punitive or restrictive measures taken, usually by several countries in concert, to pressure a country to change its certain policies. Econ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:09hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
UN allocates $3,1m for peace building in Zimbabwe
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres has presented Zimbabwe with a $3,15 million grant to kick-start a peace-building fund for the country.The fund is part of Guterres' initiative...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Danai 'General Okoye' Gurira appointed UN Goodwill Ambassador
United Nations Women on Sunday announced the appointment of Zimbabwean born internationally renowned award-winning actor-playwright Danai Gurira as its Goodwill Ambassador. Gurira will len...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 09:44hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Sanitary wear beyond reach of young girls'
Women organisations have bemoaned the high price of sanitary wear suggesting that they should be availed to women and young girls for free.This comes as the country has been characterised by p...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 11:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Elections in retrospect: Women's perspectives
Women's organisations have concurred over the need to promote constitutional literacy of women in Zimbabwe, lobby for more seats for women in parliament and in public offices as well as set up gender ...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by UN Women
Bringing rural women to the frontline
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and executive director of UN Women, recently began a second term in office. In her first term, she drew attention to women's issues globa...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 16:29hrs | | by Africa Renewal
Spare a thought for rural women this election period
Zimbabwe goes into elections within the next six months. The country has experienced violent election periods since the year 2000 when the Movement for Democratic Change party was formed. The election...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 06:58hrs | | by Makho-Precious Moyo
Faith-Based Organisations Key to Securing Equity and Justice for All - Cynthia Hakutangwi
Top Female Innovative Business Leader of the Year, Award-winning (Women's Leadership Awards, WOLA 2016), Cynthia Chirinda-Hakutangwi, is rated Zimbabwe's finest and youngest woman on the rise, and who...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 18:30hrs | 1 | by Maxwell Kudzika-Teedzai
UN-AU decry absence of women in peacebuilding activities
A high-level delegation to Nigeria and the DRC urges countries to promote gender equality Reporting back from a trip to Nigeria and the Democratic Repu...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 18:43hrs | 2 | by Leon Usigbe
Chiyangwa feels the heat as pressure mounts
Football stakeholders are circling around troubled Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) vowing to challenge the legitimacy of the Philip Chiyangwa-led administration in court if elections fail to take...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 20:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Corporate boardrooms: Where are the women?
A lack of diversity afflicts most companies' boardsWhen a woman rises to the top rung of the traditionally all-male corporate ladder in Africa, it's fro...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 15:55hrs | 2 | by Kwamboka Oyaro
Mnangagwa is not the Messiah, he's Mugabe's enforcer in the belly of the beast
Life can be ugly. I have seen the unspeakable rot of unchecked malfeasance light up a dinghy hotel bar with womanly seduction like a fireworks display at the Harare Agricultural Show. Laced up in tigh...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Zimbabwean philathropists and educationist Tsitsi Masiyiwa, received the New African Woman Award in Education
DAKAR, Senegal - The fearless Gambian human rights activist won New African Woman magazine's Woman of the Year Award (http://NAW-Forum.com) at the their Award ceremony that took place in Dakar last ni...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 18:56hrs | 1 | by APO
Mothers struggle to put food on the table everyday- Elizabeth Tsvangirai
Elizabeth Tsvangirai the wife of MDC -T President Morgan Tsvangirai has said as the nation joins the international community in celebrating the International Women's Day, Zimbabwean women are still fa...Published: 08 Mar 2016 at 12:28hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Statement by Elizabeth Tsvangirai on the occasion of International Women's Day
Speech read out to the party's Women's Assembly provincial commemoration at Harvest House, Harare Introduction...Published: 08 Mar 2016 at 12:23hrs | 14 | by Elizabeth Tsvangirai
Bulawayo up for top award
FOUR Zimbabwean Women have been nominated for the inaugural New African Woman Forum and Awards to be held in London on the 10th of March.Sipho S Moyo, Ellah Wakatama-Allfrey, Elizabeth Nyamaya...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 20:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Women, peace and security
15 years of implementing UN Security Council resolution 1325 in Africa As conflicts and crises in Africa took a more complex turn in recent years,...Published: 20 Jan 2016 at 21:01hrs | 1 | by Zipporah Musau
Albert Nyathi's multi-lingual gender fight
United Nations Women - Gender Champion Albert Nyathi is currently working on a 20-track multi-lingual music album which will be launched soon as part of the Africa UNiTE campaign. The album which is p...Published: 07 Jan 2016 at 05:06hrs | | by Arts Reporter
Zimbabwe raps Clinton, UN agencies
GOVERNMENT is disturbed that some United Nations agencies have turned themselves into lobby groups who think they have the locus standi to snipe at a sitting Head of State and Government like Presiden...Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Takunda Maodza
UN Calls for Accelerated Efforts to End Child Marriages in Zimbabwe
The United Nations today adds its voice to ongoing calls to end child marriages in Zimbabwe.Child marriages are not only an affront to the dignity and well-being of individual girls; they...Published: 03 Jul 2015 at 10:53hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC Youth Assembly Statement on The Day of The African Child
On 16 June every year, the African Union celebrates the Day of the African Child (DAC) in commemoration of the 1976 massacre of school children in Soweto, South Africa who were protesting against ...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 11:26hrs | | by Brighton Makunike
Progress towards gender parity still slow, uneven
It's been 20 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a historic roadmap that set the agenda for realizing women's rights, was signed by 189 governments. While there have been ...Published: 06 Jun 2015 at 06:23hrs | | by Zipporah Musau
Gender equality within reach
Some progress made, but challenges remain When the Rwandan delegation went to Beijing, China, in 1995 for the landmark women's conference, just a y...Published: 06 Jun 2015 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Zipporah Musau
Mai Chisamba wins Human Rights award
Rebecca Chisamba, who is regarded as Zimbabwe's own Oprah Winfrey, is busking in glory after landing the overall defender of Human Rights Award at the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association Awards ceremo...Published: 11 Jan 2015 at 11:23hrs | | by Kudakwashe Ruwende
Women matters with Blondie - A cautionary tale from West Africa
I know its only mid week, ladies but I found here an interesting article by mama Trudy Stephenson which couldn't wait until the weekend. Thank you mama for the cautionary statement....Published: 30 Apr 2014 at 05:55hrs | 3 | by Trudy Stevenson
Influencing policy is 'not a numbers game'
More women in Africa enter public office, but still wield little power "If you want to be influential in the political arena, you need to influence...Published: 07 Aug 2013 at 18:42hrs | 12 | by Jocelyne Sambira
Zimbabwean activist shortlisted for top UN post
Prominent Zimbabwe human rights lawyer and women and children's activist, Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, is reported to be among six women nominated for the position of Executive Director of UN Women. ...Published: 17 May 2013 at 03:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Combating HIV infections among African women
Schoolgirl Nomasonto Masango giggles as she lists the things she and her friends want boyfriends to buy them. "If you have an older boyfriend, he can buy you things and it is nice to show your friends...Published: 08 Feb 2012 at 06:03hrs | | by Kerry Cullinan, Durban, South Africa
Social media stimulates Nigerian debate on sexual violence
"Kill me, kill me, you people should just kill me," an unidentified woman begged as she was being gang raped by five men while her ordeal was filmed with one of their mobile phones. The crime is belie...Published: 13 Dec 2011 at 16:31hrs | | by Yemisi Akinbobola
'Development is not going to happen without women': UN
Interview with head of UN Women in Southern Africa In South Africa and Mozambique, women have reach...Published: 10 Nov 2011 at 20:16hrs | | by Africa Renewal
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