In Sierra Leone, cases involving the abuse of women have rarely been prosecuted. Spousal abusers, child abusers and even rapists have, too often, walked free. A group of lawyers and judges — all of them…
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MAROUA, CAMEROON — In Cameroon, 82 couples have taken part in a mass wedding ceremony as part of efforts to better protect the legal rights of women. Only 10 percent of marriages in Cameroon are…
Akuac Ring Ariik, a 20-year-old student, met Akok Koch for the first time in 2017. After what Ring describes as a brief conversation, Koch asked Ring to be his girlfriend. She refused. She was shocked…
Women have been urged to improve their participation in politics and use their feminist nature to organise political space for peace and progress in Nigeria. The independent National Electoral Commission in collaboration with Professor Eme…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian lawmakers on Thursday unanimously elected the country’s first female president, days after approving one of the world’s few “gender-balanced” Cabinets. As seasoned diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde takes the largely ceremonial…
NAIROBI — Rapists in Somaliland face up to 20 years in jail after the breakaway conservative Islamic region passed its first law against rape in a drive to combat gender violence, a senior official said…
2018 International Women’s Day Tribute As we celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day, I am dedicating it to my late grandmother Princess Eunice Adefuleji. Mama school, as she was widely known as an educator who…
ELENERAI, KENYA — Norah Chepkulul, a single mother of two young sons, stands outside her home, a grass thatched hut surrounded by cactuslike euphoria trees on the dusty Maasai Mara road in Kenya’s Rift Valley….
Somalia’s al-Shabab militants are threatening to punish parents who send their children to Western-style schools and universities. In a 26-minute audio recording aired by Radio Andalus, al-Shabab’s mouthpiece in Somalia, group spokesman Ali Dhere said…
Message by UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on International Women’s Day, 8 March 2017 Across the world, too many women and girls spend too many hours on household responsibilities – typically more than double…