Controversial actress and singer Tonto Dikeh's organisation will cater for abused women and children. Read more »
An NGO is trying to promote the female condom to students in higher education, young people out of school and sex workers. Read more »
Nairobi police have announced that they have formed an anti-stripping squad. Read more »
European lawmakers have awarded Denis Mukwege the Sakharov prize for his work in helping thousands of gang rape survivors in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more »
Doctor Denis Mukwege was awarded the prestigious Sakharov human rights prize for his work in helping thousands of gang rape victims. Read more »
While the most common form of violence experienced by women is physical violence inflicted by an intimate partner, child marriage and genital cutting are also a violation of women ... Read more »
The protest is in support of the woman publicly stripped and assaulted by a group of men in Nairobi. Read more »
Reports indicate one in three girls is sexually abused before the age of 18 in the country. Read more »
The three officers had gone to arrest two female tenants following the complaint by the landlady of the house when they were beaten and stripped naked in the process. Read more »
An Egyptian court has acquitted the first doctor ever brought to trial in Egypt on female genital mutilation charges that resulted in the death of 13-year-old Sohair ... Read more »
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