| 19 NOVEMBER | ||
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South Africa: Mr President: Walk the talk against GBV Mr President, 25 November, International Day of No Violence Against Women, marks the start of the Sixteen Days of Activism on Gender Based Violence (GBV). Read more |
Tax scrapped off sanitary pads Zimbabwean Sexual Reproductive Health Rights activists are celebrating a recent guarantee made by the country’s Minister of Finance Dr Mthuli Ncube to remove duty on sanitary wear. Read more |
| 25 NOVEMBER : INTERNATIONAL DAY OF NO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | ||
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#HearMeToo: Lifetime of abuse Priscilla Musonda Schaufelberger is an activist from Zambia. She suffered a lifetime of abuse from her father Read more |
16 Days to name and shame patriarchy It’s the first day of the Sixteen Days of Activism and I am numb, replaying the story of Priscilla Musonda Read more |
| 26 NOVEMBER : ACCOUNTABILITY FORUM | ||
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Moving from 16- 365 days of Action: In 2018 the message is clearer than ever before: there is no Sixteen Day miracle for ending Gender Based Violence (GBV). From the start, Gender Links (GL) has advocated Sixteen Days for Life Read more… |
GBV fuelling depression amongst women: I believed I could love the abuse out of him. I thought if I were a good enough girlfriend — if I just loved him enough — he wouldn’t want to hurt me again. Read more |
| 27 NOVEMBER: SAFE ABORTION | ||
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Zimbabwe: Abortion, a public health & human rights issue: Civil society and other stakeholders have been calling for the review of the Termination of Pregnancy Act to either expand circumstances in which abortion can be performed or to decriminalize abortion altogether. Listen here for more |
SA:Women must make own choices on abortion When Charmaine a 22 years old female arrived at the social work department accompanied by her boyfriend (Sam) he wanted to her terminate her pregnancy. Charmaine did not want an abortion Read more… |
| 28 NOVEMBER: MENSTRUAL HEALTH | ||
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Zimbabwe: Tackling the period poverty With the socio-economic situation taking a toll on Zimbabweans, for 16 year old Catherine Muranda the situation is dire as she cannot afford to buy sanitary pads during her monthly period. Read more |
Malawi: Poor menstrual health threatens girls future
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| 29 NOVEMBER: MATERNAL HEALTH | ||
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Malawi: Bad roads threaten safe motherhood This stretch of the road is always in very bad state in the rainy season. After two hours of trying to remove the ambulance from the mud, I delivered right at the place because we could not make it to the district hospital in time. Read more | Zimbabwe: The ‘urine curse’ that haunts its victims When she was just 14 years old Gladys’s Danha* was coerced to marry a 35 year old man. A year later she was pregnant but suffered a dreadful experience. Her baby was a still born and she suffered Obstetric Fistula. Read more |
| 30 NOVEMBER: HIV AND AIDS | ||
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Zimbabwe: Low risk perception behind high HIV rate |
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| 1 DECEMBER: INTERNATIONAL AIDS DAY | ||
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Tanzania: Living positive, Living healthy My first thought was how people would treat us. I was also afraid that if my husband and I were to die, our children would have no one to care for them. But, I thank God that 7 years later, we’re still surviving and we’re a happy family Read more |
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| 3 DECEMBER: SEXUAL EDUCATION AND SERVICES/ DAY OF DISABLED | ||
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Zimbabwe: The cost of poor SRH services for women The potential for women to contribute to national development continues to be underestimated by lack of adequate SRH services. Unfortunately, even at home, girls fail to communicate such issues with their families, as they fear being called names. Read more |
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| 4 DECEMBER: CHILD MARRIAGES | ||
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Malawi: One woman’s fight against child marriages Some have threatened me, saying things like, ‘You are still quite young. Are you ready to die?’ But I just tell them to go ahead and kill me, because it is the only way they will stop me from protecting our girls. Read more |
Tanzania: Waging war against child marriages I was in standard six preparing to join standard seven in 2016, but my father told me to stop schooling because he had talks with a man in the village who was to marry me. Read more |
| 5 DECEMBER: MEDIA: PART OF THE SOLUTION | ||
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South Africa: Whose (on)line is it anyway? The world is becoming one global and internet society but why is women’s participation hindered by violence in a space which has brought an alternative for women participation? Read more |
SA: Women journalists are pressing the ‘all boys club’ The old boys network is alive and well, with men in senior positions making editorial decisions, which exclude women, which often blocks the rise of capable women. Read more |
| 6 DECEMBER: SEXUAL DIVERSITY / MONTREAL MASSACRE | ||
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Eswatini: Violence against key populations must end The discrimination towards key populations is not only coming from ordinary citizens but even legislators are perpetrating the infringement of the rights of the LGBTI community. Read more |
Eswatini: Violence infringes on LGBTIQA rights “I still have a bit of trauma,” says 32 year old trans woman, outreach worker and peer educator, Model C*. Her trauma stems from her attack by unidentified men three months ago because she is transgender, Read more |
| 7 DECEMBER: | ||
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Eswatini: Menstrual dignity has a price tag I would run away when the pad didn’t go down after several ineffective flushes and be riddled with fear that someone would know it was me who was the last to use that toilet that suddenly has water on the floor. Read more |
SA: Migrant teenage girls drawn to sex at a young age With each sunset in Yeoville, Berea or Hillbrow, it is not unusual to see groups of young teenage girls, who are just getting into the puberty stage, hanging around young boys of their age. Read More |
| 10 DECEMBER: PLEDGING COMMITMENTS / HUMAN RIGHTS DAY | ||
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Tanzania: Putting an end to FGM Female Genital Mutilation is widely practiced as a passage rite into adulthood. Those who do not go through the ceremony, risk facing discrimination and are regarded as people who bring misfortune into the community. Read more | |
