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No Education - No Future, Say Women and Children of DRC

DRC's Men of Courage & Peace - Determined to Defend Women's Rights, Despite Arrest

Kenya: Grassroots Rescue Centre for the Children of Nairobi's Slums

Rural Uganda: Water Collection Exposes Women and Children to Danger

Uganda: Child Safety Fund - Boreholes Help Prevent Child Sacrifice

Uganda: New Borehole in Village Means More Time for School

Working to Abolish Child Sacrifice in Uganda - Report by EACO

"The Sun Will Rise Tomorrow" - Hope in Solidarity for DRC Women

Brown Button Foundation: A Call for Unity to End Violence Against Women

DR Congo: Grassroots Groups Are Key to Women's Empowerment

No Love in Juba - Sex migrants in Sudan

Southern Sudan is experiencing a rising sex trade as women come from Eastern Africa desperate to find ways to make money.

Womens Rights - Latest

Young Men Break with Machista Stereotypes in Ecuador

“Lack of access to safe abortion is torture”

South Africa: When Those Meant to ‘Protect and Serve’ are Perpetrators

Pentagon Estimates 26,000 Sexual Assaults in U.S. Military Last Year

Douchebag Sports Journalism and the Balotelli Girlfriend Sex Non-scandal

'Laws of Attrition' - Crushing Women's Rights in 21st Century Russia

Taliban and taboos bar millions of women from voting in Pakistan

Uganda: 'If a Woman Wears a Miniskirt, We Will Arrest Her'

WOMENS RIGHTS IN AFRICA

South Africa: When Those Meant to ‘Protect and Serve’ are Perpetrators

Police are the first point of call when reporting a crime – something which further puts victims at risk, in South Africa. An increasing number of police…

DRC: Diplomat Appointed and War Criminal Hands Himself in - Hope for the Grassroots?

Women in Eastern DRC are hopeful of Mary Robinson's impact: "We always dream to see a woman who can speak for us here because we have seen a lot, we have…

Why do men rape?

Four women, Gender researcher Lisa Vetten, Medical Research Council's Professor Rachel Jewkes, Sonke Gender Justice’s spokesman Mbuyiselo Botha and People…

The agony of South Africa’s daughter Anene Booysen

In life, the two young women were worlds apart from each other, but in death they were uncannily the same. Besides their brutal gang rapes and mutilation, both…

Anene Booysen: Raped because she was a girl

'The rape of Anene Booysen in South Africa will happen again. She was raped and mutilated because she was a girl, and they wanted to destroy her', writes…

South African girl's gang-rape and murder triggers political outrage

The gang-rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl in South Africa has triggered expressions of outrage from politicians and calls for Indian-style protests…

'Anything but a woman' in Kenyan politics

When Vesca Kangongo presented her bid to vie for the gubernatorial seat in Uasin Gishu, a county in Kenya’s Rift Valley region located about 313 kilometres…

Liberia: Justice in their own hands

This week, in Liberia, the story that repeatedly comes up is about a young girl was who so brutally raped by her foster brother that she bled to death. This is…

Morocco to axe law allowing rapists to go free if they marry their victim

Nearly a year after Morocco was shocked by the suicide of a 16-year-old girl who was forced to marry her alleged rapist, the government has announced plans to…

Nigeria has a rape culture too

Protests against sexual violence in India mark a significant shift in attitudes, but why is there silence when it happens in Nigeria?

Nike 'bullet' advert pulled from Pistorius site

A Nike advertisement with the tagline "I am the bullet in the chamber" has been removed from Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius's official website after he was…

Malawi women stand up for healthcare rights under HIV/AIDS

Out of the 34 million people living worldwide with AIDS, a large proportion, approximately 61,000 orphans, are living without parents in Malawi, due to AIDS…

Activists denounce low female showing in S.Leone parliament

Sierra Leone gender activists on Monday bemoaned the low representation of women in the country’s parliament after recent general elections, saying it has…

Queen of Galkayo educates Somali girls amid war and prejudice

When war broke out in Somalia in 1991, Hawa Aden Mohamed was one of boatfuls of refugees who fled to neighbouring Kenya. The dangerous journey from Somalia’s…

Aya Chebbi: The Right To Be A Woman

"We come from all around the globe. We emerge from different backgrounds. We speak different languages, and hold different nationalities. Yet, unfortunately,…

SOMALIA

Amanda Lindhout - From Hostage to Advocate

In August 2008, Freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped while working in war-torn Somalia and held hostage for 15 months Mel James of Safe World asked Amanda about her current work with Somali women...