Women of Tomorrow
To celebrate the international day of the girl child, a couple of people brought together girls and boys of various secondary schools. The goal was to talk about gender inequality and its effect on women and society as well as the way forward. The girls were asked to write things that make them feel disrespected […]
Domestic Abuse Victims Honoured With Unfinished Portraits
A young British artist is commemorating domestic abuse victims killed by their partners or exes with a series of unfinished portraits – drawing each woman for just one minute for every year she lived. “The pictures highlight how these women’s lives were cut short. They are incomplete because the women were never allowed to live […]
Pandemic Brings Growing Risk Of Pregnancy, Abuse To Latin American Girls
When her 11-year-old daughter’s belly began to grow in May, Paloma discovered the unimaginable – the girl had been raped by her stepfather. Paloma, whose name has been changed, took her daughter to a public hospital in Mexico’s western Michoacan state, but the child was denied an abortion. By law, Mexico’s public hospitals must provide […]
Rescued From Sex Slavery, Red Tape Traps Bangladeshi Girls In India
Priya was 15 when a relative in Bangladesh tricked her with the promise of a dream job as a singer, drugged her, and trafficked her across the border into the sex trade in India. After several failed attempts to escape the brothel in the eastern state of West Bengal where she was trapped for six […]
Limpopo Teen Writes About The Abuse Young Girls Are Exposed to
A 14-year old Limpopo girl has written a book in which she tells the stories of the abuse of young women by people who pretend to be good Samaritans. Ntiyiso Amukelani, affectionately known as Amu, was single-handedly raised by her mother in a village in Soekmekaar and was confronted by many challenges such as an […]
There Are Lots Of Things To Be Done In Fighting Gender Based Violence
The ghost of sexual corruption is reported to dig its roots in offices, learning institutions and trading areas. The Police Gender Desk has confirmed that house-maids are another group of victims facing this form of harassment at a hefty extent. The law enforcers state that sexual assault to house maids is increasing because the victims […]
Traditions That Make Women Go Against FGM Laws – These Women See It As Normal
“It’s normal pain. Just like a knife cut which many people especially women once in a while encounter while preparing a meal.” This is how Ms Joan Cherop (not real name), 23, a candidate of female genital mutilation (FGM) candidate described the cultural practice, which, according to Ugandan laws is illegal. In 2010 Parliament enacted […]
Virginity Test Is Invasive, It Is An Assault On The Girl Child…
Invasively checking vaginal tightness and whether hymens are intact is common in rural Morocco. But women are increasingly publicly opposing this practice. They say the examination constitutes rape. Meryam is 24, more than old enough to get married. But the prospect of sexual intercourse scares her. As a child, she was forced to undergo a […]
This Dehumanizing System Of Marrying Young Girls Off To Become ‘slaves of gods’
What is Trokosi? Trokosi is a traditional system where virgin girls, some as young as six years old, are sent into Troxovi shrines (shrines for gods) as slaves to make amends for wrongs committed by a member of the virgin girl’s family. Until the Trokosi system came to the attention of the general public in […]
Non-Governmental Organization Of ‘Haki-Elimu Is Teaching Girls How To Make Sanitary Pads
Menstrual cycles, with accompanying bodily changes and sometimes even abdominal pain, can be bad news to most ladies, but when it comes to school girls in remote rural areas, where protective pads are unheard of, the situation can be a nightmare. Sanitary health, especially among school girls in rural villages is becoming something of paramount […]
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