Understanding Emotional Boundaries
Ana and Jeff met for the first time at one of my workshops in New York. They described their spontaneous chemistry as love at first sight. It was as if they were destined to be together. As their connection strengthened, Ana came closer to having to face her past. Hidden inside her emotional closet was […]
Loans Keep Women Afloat As They Plant Fast-Vanishing Mangroves In Kenya
When she was growing up, Tima Abudhi remembers watching her neighbours cut away at the mangrove forests around her village on Pate Island, on Kenya’s east coast, chopping down the coastal trees to build houses or to sell as timber. As the mangroves disappeared, so did the fish that live and breed among their roots […]
Women, Girls Internet Vulnerability On the Rise
Sophia Nalumba (not real name) sits in an Internet café beaming with excitement. She does not even seem to notice the people around her who are wondering what had made her happy. Without hesitating, she beckons one lady to loudly read out the email in front of her and everyone joins in the frenzy as […]
Subtle
The word subtle should never sit with the word harassment. They are not friends, they have never been and will never be. As a matter of fact, I will like to believe “subtle” feels “harassed” whenever it is used side by side with “harassment”. Having established that there is nothing about harassment that is subtle, […]
We Need A Break
The #nobodylikewoman challenge was pioneered by Nigerian singer Simi on Instagram. In this challenge, women share a picture of themselves in black and white and attach the demeaning comments they have gotten in the past or are still getting. I tried reading through as much as I could see and these condescending comments could make […]
‘Agriculture in Ghana Revolves Around Women’
“Women are considered an important tool around which the progress of agriculture revolves and when left out, affects the general agriculture production of the country, “the Upper ManyaKrobo District Agric Officer In – Charge of Extension, Edward Sawodji has observed. He said “They are major agricultural producers, and often responsible for the production of food […]
Police Arrest Abusive Harare Teacher
POLICE in Harare have arrested Micheal Freeman Chingwaru (39), a teacher at Einstein Tuition Centre for violently assaulting a student at the private school. The arrest follows a national public outcry after a video of Chingwaru physically assaulting an unidentified male student went viral on social media Thursday. In the video, captured in a classroom […]
Covid-19 Condemns More Women To Unbearable Hardship
These are trying times for many Liberians particularly women who most times bear the economic burden of any form of crisis, and the COVID-19 crisis is no exception. The pandemic has caused a global economic crisis and Liberia, being one of the poorest in Sub-Sahara Africa, has not been spared its brunt. The COVID-19 pandemic […]
A Reflection of the Maternal Status in Nigeria
In this report, Sunday Ehigiator examines how proper financing of maternal medicines-drugs and medication, can help reduce the high rate of maternal mortality in Nigeria given that many pregnant women still can’t afford or lack access to quality healthcare and drugs, before, during and after labour. Maternal mortality and morbidity have continued to be a significant problem […]
Malaysian Mothers Win Lawsuit In ‘sexist’ Citizenship Case
A group of Malaysian mothers won a legal battle on Thursday for the right to pass their nationality to children born overseas – a landmark ruling that campaigners said could spur efforts to reform discriminatory citizenship laws in other countries. Malaysia allows men to confer citizenship to children born abroad, but women have been denied […]
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