Zimbabwean health minister David Parirenyatwa has reportedly challenged private manufactures in the country to produce condoms so as “to address concerns over the size of condoms imported from China”. According to NewsDay, Parirenyatwa said the move would also save on foreign currency. Parirenyatwa said this while speaking during the launch of the Zimbabwe Private-Sector HIV/Aids … Read more
The UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, has debunked assertion by some Ghanaian youth that the only solution to Ghana’s huge unemployment problem is entrepreneurship. In her estimation, entrepreneurship is just one of the solutions to deal with the canker but posited that the onus lies on government to remedy the situation by creating … Read more
The UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth, Ms. Jayathma Wickramanayake will pay a working visit to Ghana on Wednesday February 7 as part of her five country African tour. According to statement by the UNFPA and copied to the GNA, Ms. Wickramanayake with her visit will be advocating for Africa to implement the AU Roadmap for Harnessing … Read more
The Third Annual International Research Conference of the University of Ghana College of Humanities opened in Accra on Tuesday to foster interdisciplinary research in the pursuit of academic and national development. The three-day conference, on the theme: “Humanities Research and the New Waves of Globalisation,” will discuss ways of creating the right synergies and partnerships … Read more
The International Perspective for Policy and Governance (IPPG), an independent and non-profit think tank has released a report on the challenges faced by women and girls in the study of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects in Ghana. The report is the final documentation of the deliberations from a roundtable discussion themed “Gender, Science … Read more
The Executive Director of the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA), Babatunde Osotimehin, is dead. The cause of his death is yet to be known. Born on February 6, 1949, he attended Igbobi College from 1966 to 1971 and then proceeded to the University of Ibadan. He pursued a doctorate in medicine from the University of … Read more
The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr Babatunde Osotimehin, has died. Dr Osotimehin, who also served as the Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, died on Sunday, June 4 at his home His death was announced by UNFPA on its website on Monday, June 5. “This is a devastating loss for … Read more
After she lost the courage to trade in vegetables – her source of livelihood at the Aboabo market in Tamale – due to her fistula condition after her fifth birth, 40 years old Mma Fulera is now back to her business with higher aspirations. Today, Mma fulera has returned to her spot in the market where … Read more
The Second Lady, Samira Bawumia, has reiterated the government’s unwavering commitment to providing opportunities for the nation’s youth to thrive. They would continue to remain at the heart of its economic policies as government empowers them economically, to enable them to make useful contribution to nation building. She was addressing a youth rally organized to … Read more
The Second Lady, Samira Bawumia, has reiterated the government’s unwavering commitment to providing opportunities for the nation’s youth to thrive. They would continue to remain at the heart of its economic policies as government empowers them economically, to enable them to make useful contribution to nation building. She was addressing a youth rally organized to … Read more
A total of thirty four cases have been booked for reconstructive surgery at the Ghana Center for Excellence for Fistula in Tamale in the northern region. The surgery scheduled to coincide with the World Fistula Day Celebration is the first in 2017 and will see the restoration of dignity to the women who have hoped … Read more
Marginalised, attacked and frequently hit by blasphemy charges, Pakistan’s religious minorities are hoping the country’s first census since 1998 will be a step towards greater political representation and rights. In the congested Lahore district of Youhanabad, the largest Christian neighbourhood in Pakistan, activist Sajid Christopher says his community looks forward to standing up and being … Read more
The United Nations on Monday welcomed the release of 82 Nigerian schoolgirls after years of Boko Haram captivity and appealed to their families and communities not to ostracize them. The teenage girls kidnapped in 2014 from a school in Chibok, northeast Nigeria, were freed on Saturday after a prisoner swap agreed with the Islamist group. … Read more
Female genital mutilation is truly a controversial subject and an abhorrent practice We continue from Part 1 (Note: In New York, this author sat in a class with a Guinean/Senegalese/Sierra Leonean young lady who vigorously and unabashedly defended female genital mutilation. She later confided in this author that she had one herself and will defend … Read more
Women have been advised to stop the practice of providing dowry for men to present to their (women) parents as bride price to marry them. Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mr Emmanuel Holortu, Northern Regional Coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS), who gave the advice, … Read more
Ghana is one of the few countries to be introduced to the Midwifery Services Framework (MSF),President of the Ghana Registered Midwives Association, Mrs. Joyce Jetuah has said. She explained that the framework is a tool developed by International Confederation of Midwives and partners to support the development and strengthening of midwifery services across countries, focusing … Read more
WHO should monitor countries identified with the practice of female genital mutilation “Clitoridectomy and female circumcision, practices often labeled as female genital mutilations, are not just controversial cultural rites performed in foreign countries… “…medical historian reports that American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris from the mid-19th century through the … Read more
WHO should monitor countries identified with the practice of female genital mutilation “Clitoridectomy and female circumcision, practices often labeled as female genital mutilations, are not just controversial cultural rites performed in foreign countries… “…medical historian reports that American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris from the mid-19th century through the … Read more
Thiri’s heart started pounding and her whole body shook after she swallowed the final dose of pills that would end her unwanted pregnancy in a Yangon hotel. Her boyfriend had abandoned her after finding out she was pregnant — a familiar story in Myanmar, where many consider women “ruined” if they have sex before marriage. … Read more
hirty-six members of the Yazidi religious minority are free after nearly three years in the hands of so-called Islamic State (IS), the UN says. They have been taken to UN centres in Dohuk in Kurdish northern Iraq. It is unclear whether they escaped in Iraq or were freed, as the UN declined to give more … Read more