Something changes when a woman occupies an office men have treated as their natural inheritance. Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri’s appointment on 29 September 2026 makes that change visible in Morocco. For women…
Feminist spaces are not toxic. Feminism is not toxic. Accountability is not toxic. So, what is? This began as my rage, but now it is my love letter to the movement. A…
I was just 17 years old, in a WhatsApp group with peers discussing sexual and gender-based violence when I first heard that Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) was violence. I remember being agitated…
I recently had a conversation with an acquaintance who had applied for activist welfare support after the floods in Accra, Ghana this June destroyed much of what they owned. Their appliances, gadgets…
“Portuguese-speaking Africa is not on the margins of Africa’s feminist movement. It is an essential part of it.” Across Africa, feminist movements have long challenged systems of inequality, responded to crises, created…
“A África lusófona não está à margem do movimento feminista africano. É uma parte integrante dele.” Em toda a África, os movimentos feministas há muito que desafiam os sistemas de desigualdade, respondem…
What is mutual interest in an unequal world? That’s what I was reflecting on this week in Brussels, when I joined the “Mutual interests in practice: How should Global Europe balance development,…
Globally, hard-won rights and freedoms like sexual and reproductive health and rights, hate speech legislation that protects gender and sexual minorities, gender equality laws and the concept of gender itself, together with…
There’s been an online uproar after Rwandan National Police spokesperson ACP Rutikanga Boniface announced on public television that public indecency will be punished. On August 29, police officers threatened to beat young…
Between April 2024 and February 2025, Namibia recorded 4,405 cases of gender-based violence (GBV), of which 1,345 were cases of rape. These figures may not reflect the actual prevalence, as many incidents,…