The Women Deliver Conference, held since 2007, is one of the world’s largest gatherings on…
Tag: Women’s rights
The National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) gained a historic win at the…
Rukia*, a seventeen-year-old Form three girl from a rural area in the coastal part of…
As a feminist and international development practitioner and advocate, I am privileged to hold leadership…
Who says you can only honor mothers on Mothers’ Day? We honour mothers, as well…
We exist as women who are black, who are feminist, each stranded for a moment,…
The mobilizations specially provided platforms, space and amplified the voice in protesting against the violence women suffer on a daily basis; reclaiming the power to challenge oppressive systems and policies and advocating for keeping institutions and states accountable. We feminists do proclaim that the personal is political, which is difficult to articulate when sometimes discussions are sanitized and devoid of political nuance hence the resistance and mobilization.
I don’t like culture as a way of explaining anything today on this continent because what I see is what I call cultures of impunity that colonisation represented because if you remember colonisation…
I grew up around boys; gender differences were not only an apparent issue, they were…
Over the past week, two quotes stated by two different women of two different generations…