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Africa: Despite Africa’s 4.7m Strong Developer Base, Gender Gap Still Limits Continent’s Full Digital Potential – Report

eriinfo.com5 days ago07 mins

Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which empowers global organisations to grow and build sustainable competitive advantage, has released its latest report, revealing how Africa’s software and applications developer community is scaling fast at 21 per cent annually. The report however said although Africa currently has 4.7 million developers, and competing with regions such as Europe with…

Olympics urged to drop reported gender test plans for female athletes | Olympics News

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago06 mins

Global sports leaders ‌reached consensus on a new set of eligibility criteria for transgender athletes in February. Published On 18 Mar 202618 Mar 2026 More than 80 human ⁠rights and sport advocacy groups ⁠have called on the International Olympic Committee to abandon reported plans to introduce universal genetic sex testing for female athletes and impose…

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Southern Africa: Newly Released 2025 Scorecard Unveils Progress and Setbacks On Health and Gender Equality Across Southern Africa

eriinfo.com1 month ago013 mins

Johannesburg — The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has launched its biennial scorecard, a critical tool that tracks progress on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) across its 16 Member States. New data, including from demographic health surveys, shows great strides in improving the sexual and reproductive health of people across the region, while…

How an Oklahoma student’s gender essay became a national culture war fight

eriinfo.com4 months ago015 mins

What started as a dispute over a small assignment in a psychology course has since become the latest example of Republican politicians and media elevating culture war clashes on college campuses and turning them into national referendums on gender, religion and academic freedom. In September, Texas A&M fired a professor over a lesson related to…

South African women call purple protest at G20 over gender violence

eriinfo.com4 months ago08 mins

Khanyisile Ngcobo, Nomsa Maseko,BBC Africa, Johannesburg and Danai Nesta Kupemba AFP via Getty Images Many activists want gender-based violence to be declared a national disaster South African women’s rights groups are calling for nationwide protests to demand that gender-based violence (GBV) be declared a national disaster in a country where attacks on women have become…

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Africa: The Making of Better Men – How New Approach to Raising Boys Is Tackling Gender Abuse

eriinfo.com5 months ago022 mins

On a bright Tuesday morning in Wakiso District, laughter fills the schoolyard of Divine Mercy Junior Primary School. Boys and girls chase one another across the dusty compound, their blue-and-white uniforms fluttering in the breeze. In one corner, a group of pupils crowd around their teacher, acting out a short drama. One boy snatches a…

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Africa: Women Deliver Prepares for Re-imagined and Global Gender Justice with Feminist Playbook

eriinfo.com7 months ago05 mins

The fundamental rights of society’s most vulnerable – women, girls and gender diverse people – are currently under threat as a fascist right agenda continues to rise. In response, Women Deliver has launched the development of a Feminist Playbook, a co-created strategic document that will be finalized at the Women Deliver 2026 Conference to be…

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Africa: Gender Equality – UN Women Calls for Political Will and Accelerated Global Action

eriinfo.com7 months ago09 mins

More than 351 million women and girls could still be living in extreme poverty by the end of the decade if current trends persist. The world is retreating from gender equality, and the cost is being counted in lives, rights, and opportunities. Five years from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) deadline in 2030, none of…

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Africa: Gender Equity a Strategic Imperative for Africa’s Growth

eriinfo.com7 months ago08 mins

The West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM) has declared that gender equity is not just a question of fairness but a strategic imperative for Africa’s long-term growth, innovation, and institutional resilience. The declaration came at the opening of a five-day regional workshop on “Women in Leadership: Understanding Gender Dynamics in the Workplace,”…

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Africa: Performative Democracy and Gender Equity in Ghana

eriinfo.com7 months ago016 mins

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. It is edited and managed by the…