Press release By Andrew Lavali Gender-based violence (GBV) is the most important women’s-rights issue that Sierra Leoneans say their government and society must address, the latest Afrobarometer survey shows. While a majority of people say violence against women and girls is uncommon in their neighbourhoods, many indicate that women are likely to face criticism or […]
Remarks by Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women Sima Bahous at the UN Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security [As delivered] This is a vitally important time for the Women, Peace and Security agenda. A reversal of generational gains in women’s rights is taking place against surging […]
Debating Ideas aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. The nation state, by extension representational […]
By Kunle Sanni The study also said 640 arrests or 88.6 per cent of the total number of sexual and gender-based violence cases were recorded in four years. At least 5,623 cases of gender-based violence were recorded within four years in Nigeria’s Northeastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, a report by the Sexual Assault […]
By Fatou Dem Fatou Kinteh, minister for Gender, Children and Social Welfare has said that her ministry is currently revising the Gender and Women Empowerment Policy 2023-2033 as well as the National Children´s Policy. The revision would cover thematic areas on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence including Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage. Minister Kinteh made […]
By Adama Tine As Human rights impact assessments, help identity, analyze, and monitor the impact of trade agreements on the environment and on the ability of people to enjoy human rights, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recommends that the role of women in trade within the continent and their impact […]
After more than a decade of teaching audio production to my college students in Cairo, it finally dawned on me that podcasts themselves can serve as teaching tools that highlight lessons in Egyptian society. I realised this because so many of my female students selected feminist topics or took feminist standpoints in their narrative nonfiction […]
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 2022 (IPS) – For decades, urban practitioners have failed to consider the needs of women in city decision-making and planning. Imagine being a young girl in a bustling metropolis. Every day she hesitates to go to school, tries different routes on the public bus, walks miles in the hot sun, to […]
Women and girls are bearing the brunt of the worst drought experienced in Kenya for 40 years, which is exacerbating the risk of sexual exploitation, violence, and abuse. “We have to walk for more than seven kilometres to find water, and sometimes what we find isn’t safe to drink,” says 39 Elimlim Ingolan, mother of […]
Cities have an in-built bias against women, who overwhelmingly describe them as unsafe and unwelcoming. A UN report released on Monday October 24th, 2022 calls for a complete overhaul of city design, and for women to be more closely involved in urban planning. Even though they make up half the population, women and girls get […]
