Demonstrators in Abuja demand 'justice' after a series of high-profile rape cases sparked outrage in the country.

Dozens of women have marched in the capital of Ghana to protest impunity surrounding attacks on women and girls in the West African country. The activists added their voices to the global conversat...

When researchers began looking at efforts by a development charity to improve resilience to climate ...

  Les séminaires, colloques et autres réunions se penchent sur le bien-être de l’enfant, notamment le 11 octobre où le Bénin à l’instar de la communauté internationale célèbre la Journée Internatio...

Plusieurs dizaines de personnes ont marché dimanche à Abidjan pour dénoncer la mort - après un viol - d'une fillette âgée de trois ans, crime très médiatisé et abondamment commenté sur les réseaux...

Des centaines de personnes ont manifesté le 25 mai à Dakar contre la banalisation des viols et agressions sexuelles, à la suite du meurtre d’une jeune fille dans l’est du Sénégal.

Elle a créé en 2016 le Club des jeunes filles leaders de Guinée qui lutte contre les mariages forcés, les viols conjugaux et les mutilations génitales.

Monrovia – A frail girl sits quietly on a wooden bench. A silky dress is pulled over her knees. Her face is a vision of fear. Tracy, not her real name, is only ten, but she has already suffered the...

President Julius Maada Bio said a majority of the victims were under 15, and announced measures to combat sexual violence.

Les violences sexuelles sur les mineures sont légion au Burkina Faso. Des prédateurs sexuels n'hésitent pas à souiller les gamines, bouleversant à jamais leur vie. Meurtries, certaines victimes...

Cyril Ramaphosa's remarks come after several femicides amid the lifting of coronavirus restrictions.

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EU and Britain ramp up pressure on government to act as street demonstrators converge on Lilongwe

Young unmarried mothers are often forced to live in poverty, unable to find work and shunned by their families and communities

Uta Simon recently served as gender advisor and investigator of sexual and gender-based violence on the UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi. Among other things, she and her colleagues travelled to...

As the G8 discusses sexual violence in the DRC, perpetrators and victims speak out about mass rape in Minova

Authorities in Ethiopia have said more than 100 girls were raped and treated in the capital, Addis Ababa, since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the privately owned Walta TV has reported. The head...

Kathomi Gatwiri and Audrey Mugeni’s social media initiative records every femicide reported in Kenya, stressing the scope of violence against women.

Is Tanzania witnessing an increase in sexual violence incidents?

Rape and sexual violence against women and girls as young as eight is still widespread in northern South Sudan despite the signing of a peace deal to end the civil war in September 2018, according to...

Violence against women is widespread in Angola. This brief presents the main findings in a recent study of how violence against women ...

Le 25 novembre de chaque année est célébrée la Journée internationale pour l’élimination de la violence à l'égard des femmes. En prélude à cette journée,

Zimbabwe Gender Commission chairperson Margaret Sangarwe CLAIM: Twenty-two women are raped daily in Zimbabwe, according to the Zimbabwe Gender Commission. VERDICT: True. Official crime statistics...

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Le Cameroun est l’un des pays avec le plus fort taux de violences sexuelles. Depuis 2016, ces crimes augmentent notamment dans l'ouest séparatiste, où les jeunes femmes sont les proies de miliciens e…

Son histoire a choqué l’opinion publique jusqu'en France. La Tunisienne violée par deux policiers dans la nuit du 3 au 4 septembre dernier et poursuivie pour « atteinte à la pudeur », a décidé de...

Rachel Odede and Eden Asghedom write on the National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students (NUEYS) and National Union of Eritrean Women (NUEW) that are working together with the Information, Education...

As women around the world come forward with stories of sexual harassment, a report by the Thomson Reuters Foundation shows that Cairo is the world’s most dangerous megacity for women, and has become…

Ibado Mohammed Abdulle is a counsellor, friend and campaigner for women made refugees in their own country by the impact of climate crisis

Intimate partner violence is an important public health problem that cuts across geographic and cultural barriers. Intimate partner violence refers to the range of sexually, psychologically and...

Abdellah Taïa and other prominent names have said that horrifying details show their country ‘still hates women and considers them as nothing’

65% of women in Madagascar, have reported experiencing some form of abuse (threats, beatings, rape, etc) but only 5% of cases end up in court.

Summary “Salwa” is a 39-year-old woman from Annaba with two children and a long history of abuse by her husband. She told Human Rights Watch that he started beating her from the early days of their...

A feared unit of Sudan's security forces raped women as they dispersed protesters, witnesses say.

Police in Botswana say reported incidents of rape have nearly doubled in the past year.  Activists say successful anti-rape campaigns have made victims more confident about reporting when they are...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women raped in Mauritania are discouraged from reporting the crime because they themselves can be jailed for having sex outside of marriage, a rights group said...

There were 430 cases of rape reported in Swaziland / eSwatini over seven months, new figures reveal.

Troisième volet de notre série de reportages dans le Pool au Congo-Brazzaville, six mois après la signature d’un cessez-le-feu entre les autorités et les partisans du Pasteur Ntumi. Alors que le

MORONI, Comoros – "I was expelled from my uncle's family home because he found out that I was seeing a boy from my village. This situation did not please him,” says Fazlat Said Salim, 21, originally...

BISSAU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Arminda Sa was working 15-hour days for half the pay she had been promised when her boss' brother tried to rape her.