Urban Services Linked to Gender Violence
The lack of public services is contributing to the violence and intimidation that women face in cities across the world, a report shows.
Negotiating the city streets.
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Africa: 'Marks of Manhood' Fuel Gender-Based Violence
Inter Press Service, 25 February 2013
Some of the most harrowing cases of gender-based violence Kathryn Bolkovac came across while working as a U.N. human rights investigator in Bosnia involved a perpetrator dubbed ... read more »
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Kenya: Sexual Violence Still a Major Urban Threat
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 21 February 2013
Reports of gender-based violence are on the rise in Kenya's cities, and experts say the police must improve their handling of cases of sexual assault to build public trust in the ... read more »
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South Africa: The Scourge of Gender Based Violence in South Africa (opinion)
Fahamu, 21 February 2013
South African women are regularly confronted with systemic sexual harassment, violence, and murder as the recent cases of Shrien Dewani, Anene Booysen and Reeva Steenkamp ... read more »
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South Africa: Why We Can't 'Fight' Violence (analysis)
Institute for Security Studies, 22 February 2013
The murder of Reeva Steenkamp, following only two weeks after the brutal gang rape and murder of Anene Booysen, will almost certainly give rise to a clamour of questions about ... read more »
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Namibia: The Right to Wear Miniskirts (analysis)
The Namibian, 22 February 2013
ACCORDING to news reports, women in various parts of the country have recently been arrested or threatened with arrest for wearing miniskirts or even shorts - with the potential ... read more »
InFocus
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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 »
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Very imformative piece!!.. With addition I would also like to remind my African families that the Europeans whilst in Africa for 500 years used rape with impunity!!!!!!!. During the enslavement period no black woman young child was safe from sexual abuse!!!!!!!!.. These are things we as a people must rid from our pscye!!!!!. When I hear tyhese holier than thou" western NGOs who forgets the attroccities by western former imperial enslavers this boils my blood??? Africa did not have a culture of reape nor did it use rape as a tool??? African Man has always respected the place of a woman in the family as a birth giver of life a tiller of the soil a grower a nourisher!!!!; it was the Europeans who came and changed these practices.. Never do we hear or see white women playing the role that black women play especially in Africa regarding the roles I have mentioned??? This shows us today how deep our roots were??? there is nop question in rural araeas who does most of the planting accorss Africa!!!!!... Africas mans had estreme cognizance of the roel of the woman.. It is fair to say she was like the earth "the true mother earth". There is no doubt we have been subjkect to long periods of brain washing more than any other people on the planet, what I am seeing today is the re-evolution of the conscious black man"!!!... Man in Africa today are seeing after a very long time the worth of thier cultures and the destructive nature of the whites and the impact it had on thier civilizations. Western authors seems to like to make belive Africa is the same size of Europe and north America lumping and disrespecting the strong and profound culturual identitites of ther many black African nations that the whites encountered. For example we hear mention of the ancient Egyptians then we switch gear to the Ibo tribes people????????? The I bos are just as ancient as the Egyptinas as they werre at soem time all one!!!.. This is not here nor there but we must rfelect on our past and its ancient rites" it is our duty to maintian our heriatges and drift far away from the propoganda west and thier destrucxtive ways>>> These westyerners are the earths most prolific identified serial pathological rapers p[lunderers the warth has ever seen 'ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. When black people traveled the earth they borught with them food stuffs seed for p[lanting improving economies they brought along Righetousness they taught civility. Greece is one of our most profoundstatements of how black cultures has impacted white minds!!!!!!!!!. I would suggest to most black people to abstain from l;istening to the rantings of whites when they start on thier pulpit of cynical critiques!!!; they offer nothing more than dysfunction speratisms deceit.. Look at India they were affected so much by the west that India!!!!. "In the west because they have sO many scape goats, they do not criminalise theirr rapers what they do is transpose thier crimes on thier minority communites making them the criminals allowing for the status quo' to retain its superirority holier than thou pulpit' of morality!!!. Asas mentioned in the article of Japan ; this si the problem with US troops thery are rapers as well as Uk troops they go around the world raping and pillaging; this has been thier experience for centuries' nothng has changed for these criminals"!!!!!. . This residual cruise left upon the contiennt especially i pl;aces like S. Africa Congo, where the rapers were serial most pathologica this has left undoubtedly this severe imbalance of what is right from wrong. The idea that you preach superirority high morality coupled with these attroccities which one is right you do not differnciate you accept it all as right????????." Africa needs to remodel our dientity far from those who were our occupiers!!!!!!!! On a factual impact of reality wake up calls the west has impacted negatively 10 out of 10 in reverse positively its 2 out of 10 if that!!!!