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‘Pro-family’ campaigners ignore pregnant women dying during Covid lockdowns

Africa Arya Karijo & Lydia Namubiru - 10 Sep 2020

Conservative groups are fighting efforts to expand African women’s access to healthcare. Do they care about women all the time, or only when they’re procreating?

UN: SA recovery only in five years

Business Thando Maeko - 23 Aug 2020

The latest report shows the South Africa’s women will be the hardest hit demographic of the economic downturn

Women are South Africa’s changemakers and they deserve more

Opinion Alef Meulenberg - 7 Aug 2020

The truth is the economy still largely revolves around men, especially white men like me, writes Alef Meulenberg.

Crime stats mark a bitter start to Women’s Month

Opinion Luke Waltham - 5 Aug 2020

We must celebrate women’s achievements this month while agitating for structural change, argues Luke Waltham

The danger of well-meaning men using the term ‘our women’

Opinion Babalwa Magoqwana - 29 Jul 2020

History shows that women have long been considered property by various social groups. These words perpetuate the idea

How to build a women-powered, green-energy transition

Opinion Irene Giner-Reichl - 16 Jul 2020

As the globe moves towards greener energy practices, more women must be included in this new growth sector, for the benefit of all

Why Uganda needs a Stella Nyanzi in Parliament

Africa Eric Mwine-Mugaju - 14 Jul 2020

Many Ugandans find Stella Nyanzi’s mode of protest, including vulgar insults and stripping to make a point, unsettling. But her challenge to the country’s patriarchy could bring much-needed reform

The cyclical politics of help

Friday Zaza Hlalethwa - 24 Jun 2020

Black women and trans artists are worthy of support but it should not come with terms and restrictions

Ramaphosa — ‘We are still near the beginning of this epidemic’

Coronavirus Paddy Harper & Lester Kiewit - 17 Jun 2020

President’s address covered the twin pandemics of Covid-19 and the murder and rape of women ‘who were killed by men'

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Times of unprecedented crisis present unique opportunities for unprecedented action

Opinion Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Graça Machel, Vera Songwe & Maria Ramos - 14 Jun 2020

The world has a chance to improve the lives of women, especially those living in Africa

End the pandemic of violence against women activists

Africa Nic Cheeseman & Jeffrey Smith - 25 May 2020

In countries such as Uganda, Zimbabwe and Egypt female champions are beaten up, sexually abused, jailed and even "disappeared"

Covid-19 is yet another burden on the shoulders of women

Coronavirus C19 Women’s Solidarity Forum - 7 May 2020

COMMENT This year, Freedom Day on April 27 came and went without celebration for women in townships and...

25 Years after Beijing: Changing the script about women’s leadership

Article Siphokazi Magadla - 15 Mar 2020

Women in Africa should not be viewed as having ‘special negotiating skills’. Instead, we should motivate for more women in leadership positions because of their equality as citizens

Women in the Middle East North African region pushing back against patriarchy

Article Hussein Solomon - 14 Mar 2020

The scales are still tilted in favour of men, but younger people with tertiary education have less discriminatory attitudes

Kegel exercises aren’t solely for people with vaginas

Article Tiffany Kagure Mugo - 21 Feb 2020

Often people think that kegels are targeted solely at women who want to increase the tightness of their vagina, whereas in fact the exercises are for everyone who wants to engage in better sex

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