ANALYSIS: SA Among the Leading Countries in Respect of Women Incarceration
The September 2015 report of the International Centre for Prison Studies on women incarceration trends in the world says, over the past 15 years, female inmate populations increased “sharply” and “faster” by about 50%, with the world median women incarceration rates standing at 4.4 per 100 thousand population. In this regard, South Africa has been […]
Prioritize Protection, Justice
The new president of the Central African Republic, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, should make security and justice for serious human rights abuses priorities for his government. Touadéra, a former prime minister, is to take office on March 30, 2016, after winning a runoff election on February 14. His new administration will replace a transition government that has […]
Sudan: Security Forces Sexually Abuse Female Rights Defenders – HRW
Human Rights Watch has released a report describing how Sudanese security forces have subjected female activists, human rights defenders and journalists to sexual abuse, intimidation, and other forms of ill-treatment. The rights group says it does not believe any security officer has ever been held to account for these actions. In a new report entitled […]
Sierra Leone: Female Lawyer Wants Abortion Included As a Right in the New Constitution
Female Barrister and Solicitor Mariama Dumbuya (Ms) has appealed to her fellow campaigners to continue to push for the passing of the Safe Abortion Act into law notwithstanding the possibility of its inclusion in a referendum. The former President of L.A.W.Y.E.R.S, who had earlier written a letter to His Excellency President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma […]
‘Satanist’ Rapes 22 Women, One Victim Forced to Walk 2 Hours Before Attack
A suspected rapist, aged 27, who threatened his victims with Satanism appeared before a Harare court Tuesday charged with 22 counts of rape as well as robbery. Norton-based Timothy Musakanya is also answering to assault and attempted rape charges. He appeared before Harare magistrate Hosea Mujaya, who remanded him in custody to March 16. Musakanya […]
Congo-Kinshasa: Govt Steps Up Drive to Curb Sexual Violence, Shake Off ‘Rape Capital’ Tag
London — Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is stepping up efforts to combat rape in a bid to shake off the label of being the “rape capital of the world”, the presidential adviser on sexual violence said on Thursday. Sexual violence in Congo is often regarded as a by-product of years of fighting in the […]
Tanzania: Govt Urged to Punish Men Who Impregnate Schoolgirls
Mwanza — Government has been urged to punish men who impregnate female students to serve as a deterrent to would be culprits. The appeal was made here Sunday by 17-year-old Julieth Mbalilaki, one of the 10 girls who excelled in last year’s Form IV examinations. Julieth is the first born of the Jones Mbalilaki family […]
Police Launch Hunt for Girls Abducted From Boarding School in Lagos
The Lagos State Police Command has said they are on the trail of the armed men who allegedly abducted about three school girls in Ikorodu on Monday night. The students were taken from their hostel at the Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, Agunfoye Lugbusi, at about 8 p.m., reports say. “We are working on their rescue,” […]
Uganda: Sterilisation of HIV-Positive Women
Kampala — Mayimuna Monica* has been living with HIV for over 10 years and wants to have a baby. But she can’t because her uterus was removed against her will at a government hospital where she had gone to deliver her last child now aged eight. “My uterus was removed in 2007. When I got […]
Kenya: Gang-Raped and Nowhere to Turn
Nairobi — Owuor P.’s 16-year-old sister Nekesa tried and tried to get an abortion after she was gang-raped and found herself pregnant during Kenya’s post-election violence in 2007-8. “We are not sure how many raped her,” Owuor told me. “She told us that she saw three men rape her and then she lost consciousness. She […]
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