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By filing a case against Myanmar\’s treatment of Rohingya, Gambia has shown Africa\’s potential to promote human rights. On November 11, The Gambia filed a case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violating the United Nations\’ 1948 Genocide Convention. The landmark action will bring the first legal scrutiny of Myanmar\’s campaign of murder, rape, arson, and other atrocities […]

Historically, women have been marginalised in all spheres of society be in socially, economically or politically. Culture plays a central role in this process. You will find cultural rules in communities that prevent women from realising their full potential. As laws and policies got developed, the male lens not only dominated the discourse but also

The prize not only acknowledges the Ethiopian prime minister\’s commitment to peace, but encourages him to do more. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 100th Nobel Peace Prize to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Dr Abiy Ahmed Ali, for \”his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation\” and for his \”decisive initiative\” to end the long-running

When I was younger, my mother would not allow my siblings and me to sit at the dining table before my father arrived home for dinner. And, in his presence, only my brother could speak. I was always outspoken and had an opinion about everything, including the shape of pasta on my plate. But, I

Orthodox economic models have failed us all, but women across Africa are resisting them and coming up with visionary alternatives. We need an “African ecofeminist future”. And by we, I don’t just mean Africa, I mean everyone. I say this for two reasons. Firstly, Africa is now the “final frontier” for economic models that have

Slavery affects more than 40 million people worldwide – more than at any other time in history by Kate Hodal How many slaves are there today, and who are they? The word “slavery” conjures up images of shackles and transatlantic ships – depictions that seem relegated firmly to the past. But more people are enslaved today

Something has to fill the void that toxic attitudes leave behind Watch the news on any given day and you’ll eventually hear a story about a woman being brutalised. Or killed. The perpetrators are almost always men. By no means representative of men in general, but men all the same. It’s tempting to write them

We hear that girls in Africa don’t have the same opportunities as boys to get a decent education, that discrimination is shutting women out of the jobs and assets they need to provide a better standard of living for their families, that the benefits of economic growth are being wiped out because women are having

BODY LANGUAGE Weaved up? Check. Larney accent? Check. Yellow bone? Check. Manicured nails? Check. Make-up contoured to the nines and designer duds for days? Check. Congratulations. You’re well on your way to fitting society’s baseline expectations of what it takes to be regarded as an attractive black woman. And it doesn’t end there. So what