The Peoples Democratic Party have kick off a subtle support for the second term Presidency for President Goodluck Jonathan with a planned mobilization of five million women. Read more »
The government's Inter-Ministerial Committee on Violence against Women and Children has called on police and social workers to treat abuse and rape cases with more gravity after a ... Read more »
Premier of the North West Province in South Africa has said that men found guilty of raping women and children should be punished by chemical castration. Read more »
A medical officer has revealed that the Handeni district still records high levels of child and maternal deaths. Read more »
Cervical cancer kills an estimated 275,000 women every year, the majority of whom live in developing countries. In Zambia, an initiative launched in 2011 is helping women ... Read more »
Activists have called the brutal murder and rape of Anene Booysen a tipping point in national attitudes toward violence against women, but they maintain that more needs to be done. Read more »
The Government Communication and Information System has added its voice to the national call for South Africans to get involved and take a firm stand against rape and all forms of ... Read more »
The case of one of Anene Booysen's alleged killers has been postponed in the Bredasdorp Magistrate's Court and is expected to continue tomorrow when another accomplice is due to ... Read more »
NGOs, civil society and government have expressed outrage at the gang rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl from Bredasdorp in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Police ... Read more »
An increasing number of men belonging to ethnic groups that practice female genital mutilation are speaking out against the now illegal practice. Read more »
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