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Advocate Shamila Batohi addresses the Private Sector Symposium against Gender-Based Violence and Femicide. File photo
ILO

PSC launched to combat workplace GBVH 

The Private Sector Coalition brings SA businesses together to fight the scourge of gender-based violence and harassment

  • Derek Davey
15 min read
Rebecca Cheptegei. File photo
DRAMA

Music, art and men’s involvement can prevent the deaths of women like Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei

Activists, governments and organisations, local and international, are working to end gender-based violence but theatre, song lyrics and street art can also be used

  • Robert Kigongo
3 min read
Melinda Gates arrives at Elysee Palace for the Generation Equality Forum hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron on July 01, 2021 in Paris, France. The Generation Equality Forum is a global gathering for gender equality convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, in partnership with youth and civil society. (Photo by Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images)
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

‘We must also show normal women who do great things’

In conversation: Melinda French Gates, philanthropist, businesswoman and global advocate for women and girls and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, prize-winning author and named one of…

  • Lisa Vignol, Madame Figaro
9 min read
This group of women from Tindiret sub-county in Kenya’s Nandi county crush stones (predominantly men’s work) to raise school fees for their children. (Tom Matoke/Nation Media Group)
AGRICULTURE

Kenyan women are crushing stones — and stereotypes

Crushing stones is seen as ‘men’s work’. But an all-women gravel-making group in Sarwat Village is turning both stones and stereotypes into ashes

  • Tom Matoke, The Daily Nation (Kenya)
5 min read
As well as physical violence, domestic abuse can take many different shapes and forms — sexual, emotional, economic or psychological actions or threats of actions — most of which often end up escalating to serious physical aggression, according to experts. (Oupa Nkosi)
CHILD MARRIAGE

Facts and figures: Global domestic violence numbers

“Every day, on average, 137 women are killed by a member of their own family,” said Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director, in a…

  • Sparknews
14 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
ABORTIONS

Safeguarding women’s rights during the Covid-19 shutdown

Women will be disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic, particularly considering their contribution as caregivers, in both professional and domestic settings

  • Susan Tolmay
  • Colleen Lowe Morna
6 min read
Using AI without critical reflection widens the gap between relevance and convenience.
DIGITAL AGE

African governments leave women out of digital revolution

Despite governments having collected over $400-million to provide universal connectivity, women remain unconnected from the internet.

  • Gemma Ritchie
  • Mashadi Kekana
3 min read
United Nation’s Women’s executive director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY

Wits outshines Oxford in UN study on gender parity

Ten universities in UN Women project on employment parity and ending violence were the ‘guinea pigs’

  • Prega Govender
5 min read
PHUMZILE MLAMBO NGCUKA

Mlambo-Ngcuka: Violence against women is an issue for us all

The head of UN Women has called for urgent action to ensure the impact of global crises is not disproportionately borne by women, writes Liz Ford.

  • Liz Ford
4 min read
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
PHUMZILE MLAMBO NGCUKA

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka named head of UN Women

The United Nations has made former South African deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka head of the gender equality body UN Women.

  • Reuters
  • Guardian Reporter
1 min read