As demonstrations spread across South Africa, community voices question school safety and demand that gender-based violence be declared a national disaster.
As murders of women surge across the country, activists fight for recognition and justice in a system that refuses to name the crime.
The report states that comprehensive legal reform of rape and anti-GBV laws will strengthen enforcement mechanisms and improve access to justice and support for survivors.
As Africa leads global femicide rates, Ethiopian digital activists face doxxing and death threats for demanding justice, embodying this year's #NoExcuse campaign against gender-based violence.
The bill, which has just passed its second reading at the Nigerian senate, will be a huge blow to efforts aimed at ending sexual and domestic violence and other violent crimes.
Country-wide protests over the weekend captured the growing anger and frustration over the government's seeming failure to address the increase in femicide cases.
As gender-based violence continues to plague the world over, it's important to also highlight the dire effects of emotional abuse, long before it manifests in the physical.
Zambian photographer Alex Kamutondole captures the terrifying reality of violence facing South African women daily.
We speak to women in key positions about the state of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa during the continued national lockdown.
The 19-year-old Nigerian-American Black Lives Matter protester was found dead in Tallahassee after being missing since June 6th.
As the nation contends with Black people dying at the hands of the police, femicide continues to claim the lives of South African women including 28-year-old Tshego Pule.
Nigerians are outraged by the continued gender-based violence in the country following the death of 22-year-old student Vera Omozuwa in a Benin City church.
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