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News 30.11.2023

Awake to the challenge: African women’s leadership at Beijing+20

Author: Ndana Bofu-Tawamba Published on: OpenDemocracy The world has changed significantly for women’s rights and gender equality…

News 30.11.2023

LGBTQI Rights in Cameroon: UAF-Africa Grantee Feature

Urgent Action Fund- Africa recently supported an organization working on LGBTQI rights in Cameroon pursue…

News 30.11.2023

To Be Gay and African Should Not Be a Crime

By: George Reginald Freeman Published by: Pacific Standard In my home country of Sierra Leone, homosexuality is punishable…

News 30.11.2023

Women staged the first major protest against President Pierre Nkurunziza

Published by: RFI English Author: Daniel Finnan Women staged the first major protest against President Pierre Nkurunziza…

News 30.11.2023

Sudan changes law that left rape victims punished for adultery

LONDON, April 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Sudan has overhauled a law that led to…

News 30.11.2023

UAF-Africa strongly condemns the killing of prominent woman human rights defender (WHRD) Sabeen Mahmud

Sabeen Mahmud, a prominent Pakistani social and human rights activist, was shot dead on Friday,…

News 30.11.2023

16 Days of Activism: International Day for the Elimination of VAW

On ICT and Violence against Women How misogyny is replicated across the “digital divide” in…

News 30.11.2023

UAF-Africa Brief: The Crisis in Burundi

“NON” AU TROISIÈME MANDAT” – THE CRISIS IN BURUNDI (PDF version) Introduction The ongoing crisis…

News 30.11.2023

Katswe Sistahood to campaign against revenge porn in Zimbabwe

Katswe Sistahood to launch a campaign against revenge pornography in Zimbabwe Revenge porn hurts girls…

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