Issues and Analysis
Poor urban services found to increase risk of violence against women
ActionAid says lack of transport, housing, sanitation and street lighting leaves poor women and girls in cities vulnerable
Read more...The Group of 20: advancing the constitutional agenda for women in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is currently re-writing its constitution and women in Zimbabwe have seized the opportunity to push for equality and women's rights.
Read more...Denis Mukwege: The rape surgeon of DR Congo
Denis Mukwege is a gynaecologist working in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He and his colleagues have treated about 30,000 rape victims, developing great expertise in the treatment of serious sexual injuries. His story includes disturbing accounts of rape as a weapon of war.
Read more...Canada: Abusive Policing, Neglect Along ‘Highway of Tears’
Set Up National Inquiry Into Murders, Disappearances of Indigenous Women, Girls
Read more...Why I Won't Support One Billion Rising
The premise of One Billion Rising is to 'rise' above forms of violence; to dance, to celebrate and in doing so to 'DEMAND an end to this violence'. It was created by Eve Ensler, the creator of The Vagina Monologues, whose exposure has risen along with the success of the play.
Read more...Sexularism and the female body
If the "western" woman is to be liberated, we should stand with women across the globe to end the war on women's bodies.
Read more...US aid ban on abortions for women raped in war leaves UK compromised
Prohibiting the use of foreign aid to provide access to safe abortions has repercussions far beyond US borders
Read more...Don't we have the right to get married too?
Bhagya (name changed) falters as she tells me what happened when she said she wanted to get married.
“Do you know what my parents asked me? They said, 'Yevan irrukkan unnai kattikrathuku?' (Who is there to marry you?) I was so upset. I went into a long depression,” she recalls, over tea.
Kenyan Men Turning the Tide Against FGM
For the Samburu community in northern Kenya it was bad enough that Julius Lekupe had not sired a son – it was even worse that his eldest daughter refused to be “cut”.
Read more...Menstruation taboo puts 300 mln women in India at risk - experts
More than 300 million women and girls in India do not have access to safe menstrual hygiene products, endangering their health, curtailing their education and putting their livelihoods at risk, say experts at the Geneva-based Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC).
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