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Nineteen-year-old Armande* recalls her disastrous first visit to a health centre. “It was awful,” says the teen from Kongo Central, in western Democratic Republic of the Congo. “I was younger then and looking for information on HIV, and the nurse there made fun of me in front of everyone because of my age.”
As The Gambia joins the rest of the world to mark International Women’s Day on March 8, local feminists have been up in arms against an imam who made a controversial comment about female judges of the shariah court.
Though separated by 100 km, Aitta Kébé and Maimouna Tamba are fighting for the same cause. They are both Bajenu Gox, striving to ensure that Senegalese women and girls enjoy a life free from gender-based violence.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has approved three bills to become laws that the National Assembly considers as part of its legislative measures to strengthen South Africa’s response to rampant gender-based violence (GBV) in the country, APA learnt on Saturday.
The South African Police Service must prioritise the safety of women and children at all times, and especially during the upcoming festive season when the country usually witnesses a high crime rate nationwide, Police Minister Bheki Cele has said.
Nigerian and UN women campaigners have sounded a wary note of “urgency to act” against Gender-based violence (GBV) in all corners of the world.
South Africa joined the rest of the world on Thursday to mark the start of the annual 16 Days of Activism Campaign of No Violence Against Women and Children, with Deputy Police Minister Cassel Mathale urging her compatriots to get involved in the fight against gender-based violence.
South African men should be ashamed about the way they treat women and children as newly released statistics showed increased numbers of assaults between July and September this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday.
South Africa must “create an ecosystem” that will drive the economic empowerment of women in order to reduce their vulnerability to abuse – and “to contribute to the equitable and inclusive growth of the economy”, President Cyril Ramaphosa has said.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Wednesday launch South Africa’s Women Economic Assembly (WEA) which will put major sectors under the spotlight to evaluate the level of participation of women-owned businesses.