Opinion

Confronting our innate perceptions to tackle gender-based violence

Confronting our innate perceptions to tackle gender-based 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.

How to respond to sexual assault survivors

How to respond to sexual assault survivors

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

Errol Musk and apartheid amnesia

Errol Musk and apartheid amnesia

The truly astonishing part of Musk’s interview was his insistence that apartheid did not oppress Black people because he personally did not witness any oppression

UNSC resolution a betrayal of Western Sahara

UNSC resolution a betrayal of Western Sahara

The International Court of Justice’s 1975 advisory opinion affirmed that no ties of sovereignty existed between Morocco and Western Sahara, yet 50 years later, the UN’s actions contradict that judgement through procedural diplomacy