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The majority of those displaced in emergencies are women and girls, increasing their risk of sexual violence. Girls are forced into child marriage or transactional sex, both last resorts when food is scarce
South Africa must look beyond the US’s antics and implement the resolutions of the Johannesburg summit and move ahead with African development priorities as set out in the global agenda
By the summit’s end, Ramaphosa emerged with an elevated global profile
When the system ignores its own timelines, it turns bureaucracy into violence
We cannot treat GBV only at its point of eruption. We must go upstream to the formation of identity and gender norms. This means funding and institutionalising programmes that work with boys and men, teaching and empowering them that manhood is not domination, that power does not have to harm, and that accountability is a form of strength.
The G20 Summit was a moment that announced to the world that the Global South is ready not only to contribute to global discourse but to shape it
The world is moving from borrowing African aesthetics to embracing African authority
South Africa’s risk is not expulsion, which the G20’s rules do not allow, but a year of disruption that could blunt the gains of its presidency
Many women and girls have survived sexual violence perpetrated by armed groups and armed forces in DRC, when fleeing to Burundi, and incidents have also been reported in the refugee site