For her, art was a weapon in the struggle and a tool for education. She used every opportunity to build movements and to archive experiences in writing.
To fight economic inequality, female dependency on relationships and gender-based violence, female education is critical.
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Private and public violence rely on each other as forces that work together to ensure women and girls ‘stay in their place’ — the one that patriarchal social structures have prescribed.
An activist holds a placard reading “my outfit is not an invitation” during a demonstration against the television channel Nouvelle Chaine Ivorienne following a shocking programme on rape.
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The practice of blaming and stigmatising rape survivors has devastating consequences. It silences them and protects rapists. It discourages survivors from accessing healthcare and pursuing justice.
The idea of ‘disclaimer labels’ on altered images might curb women’s and girls’ struggle with body image is a false one - in fact, they may even make it worse.
Charlotte Mmakgoko Mannya- Maxeke has been immortalised in several works.
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Thanks to the public events and the scholarly engagement with her life and work, Charlotte Maxeke has become one of the most visible South African women from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Bring Back our Girls Movement in Nigeria brought to the fore the power of women in mobilising around sexual harassment.
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The provision of better health services and social grants has aided rural women’s progress in South Africa, but there are still tremendous needs to be met.
Women continue to fetch wood and cook over smoky fires even where there are solar home systems.
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Developments in the energy sector shouldn’t be reduced to technological sophistication. They should be guided by how they improve the livelihoods of the intended beneficiaries.
Not all unplanned pregnancies are unwanted.
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Instead of asking, ‘How can teenage pregnancies be prevented?’, the following question should be posed: ‘How can reproductive injustices in relation to young women be reduced?
Thousands of activists protest outside the South African parliament in Cape Town, following a week of brutal murders of young women in 2019.
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The problem of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa is structural and fuelled by inequalities that transect race, class, gender, sexuality and age.
Students at St Dominic Bukna Secondary School in Kisumu, Kenya, take their English test outdoors due to overcrowding in classrooms.
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The government must shore up efforts to finance water and sanitation in Nigeria.
Women fill plastic shopping bags with light polyethelene plastics to make soccer balls from re-used plastics in Cape Town. Women bear the brunt of joblessness in South Africa.
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An increase in the adolescent pregnancy rate strongly suggests challenges with accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare services for this vulnerable age group.
Providing child care facilities at markets, like this one in Abijan, Ivory Coast, could ease the burden on women traders.
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The 1988 murder of the exiled ANC leader has never been solved – but by raising awareness and targeting core viewers, the film aims to help change that.