September 2024 marks exactly 39 years since the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women that culminated in the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action. This conference heralded a critical turning point for the...
gender-based violence
The pandemic within a pandemic
Malawi: unintended consequences Lengthy school closures to control the spread of the coronavirus have led to a surge in already appalling numbers of teen pregnancies and early marriages It’s a cold Monday morning and a...
South Africa: The bigger pandemic is corruption
Few issues highlight the dilemma of policy-making more than the choices faced by African governments during the Covid-19 pandemic. For many African countries with large numbers of day workers in the informal sector,...
C-19: In South Africa, rule of law questioned
Disaster regulations declared unconstitutional The tenth of April 2020 was a warm autumn day, and Collins Khosa, 40, was sitting in his yard at his home in the Far East Bank of Alexandra township in northern...
Mozambique’s gender-based violence laws
One night in April 2013, Luisa, a 46-year-old woman living in a small town in Mozambique, was on her way home when two men dragged her into an abandoned hut and raped her. “I wanted to die, but I told myself I...
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