Gender Justice

By Jane Changwanda, Chichiri, 27 November: It’s month end when most shoppers are loaded with cash but in Agnes Bauti`s* shopping basket, a resident of Mangochi, a resort town in the eastern region of Malawi, there are no sanitary pads. She is a mother of four including two adolescent girls. Bauti is living hard so […]

By ANNE ROBI Dar es Salaam:, 4 December:Veronica Nchagwa is a 14-year old standard six girl in Tanzania. Despite being bright, she is likely to become a bride before she attains 18 years as her parents are planning to marry her off as soon as she finishes her Standard Seven education next year. “My parents […]

By Wallace Mawire Harare, 5 December : Women and girls in Zimbabwe’s apostolic religious sects are beginning to embrace modern forms of Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) services which were previously shunned, thanks to intensified engagement and dialogue with the church communities by concerned stakeholders. The Apostolic Women Empowerment Trust (AWET) in Zimbabwe is one stakeholder […]

By Ncane Maziya, Mbabane, 11 December : “Sita ungamushayi, ungambulali umakwehlula mbuyisele ekhaya” (please don’t beat or kill her, if you had enough or tired of her take her back to her parental home) On 25 November which was the first day of the 16 Days of Activism, Times of Swaziland published a story  that […]

Gibson Mhaka Bulawayo, 9 December: IT was an emotional interview as 40-year-old Esnathy occasionally broke down as she narrated the story of her alleged abuse by her ex-husband. She started with a disclaimer. “I did not want this information to go public. This is because the man is very violent and would kill me once […]

By: Joel Headman These women have been making a living by selling small vegetable businesses they go very early in the morningand return home very  where the rapists get a chance to attack them. For the period January to June 2019 at least 3 women have been raped and murdered in Muriet County in Arusha […]

Rita Muianga De acordo com o estudo do IPAS Moçambique, em parceria com o Centro Internacional para a Saúde Reprodutiva (ICRH-M), realizado em 2018 e divulgado em Maio último na África Austral, uma em cada quatro mulheres grávidas faz aborto. Do total dos abortos, mais de um quarto são provavelmente inseguros. Em Moçambique, 13 por […]

By Alfredo Langa Moçambique apesar de ser considerado como um País com um ambiente seguro para as pessoas lésbicas, gays, bissexuais e transexuais, a comunidade LGBT ainda se queixa de ser vítima de preconceitos, situação que os coloca fora da prática das actividades desportivas, sobretudo, quando estas assumem a sua identidade sexual. Este facto leva […]

Passados três anos da legalização do aborto seguro, através da Lei nº 35/2014 de 31 de Dezembro, que aprova o Código Penal, as mulheres que, por alguma razão, necessitam desses serviços continuam a optar pelos meios clandestinos por falta de acesso a estes serviços. Por outro lado, apesar da acção levada a cabo pelas organizações […]

By Mohalenyane Phakela Maseru, 10 December: Some community members have called for free and easy accessibility of contraceptives in order to reduce the high rate of illegal and unsafe abortions which result in maternal deaths. Currently, emergency contraception for example costs around M70 at pharmacies which are mostly located in towns. Abortion in Lesotho is […]