Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Pretoria on Saturday, angered by a rise in violence against women and children in South Africa, including killings and sex attacks. Answering the call by a group calling itself “#Not In My Name” the protesters, most of them men, marched through the streets of the South African … Read more
Ghanaian actress Vicky Zugah has finally let the cat out of the bag as she revealed the torture she has been through the past four years of her relationship with her three ex-boyfriends. She recounted how she was severally beaten by her lovers and suffered bruises on her face making it difficult for family members, … Read more
The Kpandai District in the Northern Region recorded thirty-two assault cases in 2016, topping the list of sexual and gender based violence. Abduction and kidnapping came second with 10 cases. Other cases include rape, defilement, abortion, forced marriage and infant abandonment recorded between one and eight cases. The figures were contained in the first-ever sexual … Read more
Ghanaian movie personality Lydia Forson has added her voice to the fight against domestic violence against women. According the actress, women not been able to speak out much against domestic violence against them has crushed some brilliant ideas and dreams of some women and left others to dead. The “Keteke” movie famer took to her … Read more
Efua Dorkenoo’s campaign against female genital mutilation, an unfinished business A SPECIAL NOTE: In New York, this author sat in a class with a Guinean/Senegalese/Sierra Leonean young lady who vigorously and unabashedly defended female genital mutilation. She later confided in this author that she had one herself and will defend it until her last breath. … Read more
Women have been advised to stop the practice of providing dowry for men to present to their (women) parents as bride price to marry them. Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mr Emmanuel Holortu, Northern Regional Coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS), who gave the advice, … Read more
India’s Supreme Court has upheld death sentences against four men who fatally gang raped a woman on board a bus in 2012, a crime that sparked widespread protests and drew international attention over violence against women. The four had challenged a 2013 court ruling that they should be hanged, which was later upheld by an … Read more
The Police have rescued 31 children engaged in forced labour on the Volta Lake in the Volta Region. The police also arrested 11 persons in connection with the trafficking of the children. The suspects are currently on police enquiry bail and the police said they were assisting with investigations. The children, whose ages range between … Read more
A law which protected rapists from punishment if they married their victims has been scrapped in Jordan. The Jordanian cabinet revoked Article 308 on Sunday, after years of campaigning by women’s activists, as well as Muslim and Christian scholars and others. The law had meant rapists could avoid a jail term in return for marrying … Read more
Burundi men get laid but women get screwed In this file photo citizens of Burundi march against government The call that opposing views must be managed by impregnating the women and torturing the males must be rejected with the contempt it deserves. This call reminds me of Quentin Crisp who once said “Men get laid, … Read more
Lebanese activists ramped up their campaign to scrap a controversial law allowing rapists who marry their victims to go free, with a dramatic installation on Saturday along Beirut’s sunny seaside. A proposal to scrap Article 522 of the penal code — which deals with rape, assault, kidnapping and forced marriage — was introduced last year … Read more
COALITION on Domestic Violence Legislation in Ghana (DV Coalition) has called for the establishment of two gender-based and sexual offences court in the district courts to increase women’s access to justice in the country. According to a report released by the DV Coalition dubbed: “State of the Nation’s Response to Sexual and Gender-based Violence Response,” … Read more
COALITION on Domestic Violence Legislation in Ghana (DV Coalition) has called for the establishment of two gender-based and sexual offences court in the district courts to increase women’s access to justice in the country. According to a report released by the DV Coalition dubbed: “State of the Nation’s Response to Sexual and Gender-based Violence Response,” most … Read more
The Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) has spoken openly for the first time against demands made by doctors in the Upper East region before police medical forms brought before them by victims of sexual violence are endorsed. Such demands, according to the law enforcement agency, go against the Domestic Violence Act and, therefore, … Read more
A German tourist has accused two men of taking her captive and raping her in southern India, police said Monday, just weeks after the rape and murder of an Irish woman in Goa. The woman told police two men dragged her to a secluded spot from a private beach resort in the southern tourist town … Read more
120 million Africans are on social media. 1.5 million of them are in Ghana. That is power. It connects us, engages us and enables us to share information, tell stories and totally reimagine our continent. I call it the four Ps of the world of online media: power, protest, profit and pain. The power comes … Read more
Gender Minister, Otiko Djaba, says there is nothing wrong with her advice to girls that inappropriate dressing could invite rape. She said, contrary to criticisms that the advice reflected a warped view of rape, she admonished girls to desist from wearing very short dresses out of concern for them. “Every right has a responsibility. If … Read more
Gender minister Otiko Djaba has justified her call for school girls to desist from wearing skimpy dresses because they appeal to rapists. According to her, the caution was a sincere advice from a mother to her daughters. Addressing students of the Krobo Girls Presbyterian Senior High School in the Eastern region, Otiko urged the students … Read more
Would you say the nature of a lady’s dress has the potential to attract rapists? In other words, can a lady be handing out invitations to rapists based on how she dresses? Well, the subject matter has remained the most trendy topic of the day particularly after Gender minister Otiko Afia Djaba decided to take … Read more
The conflict in Yemen has made women and girls more vulnerable to gender-based violence, with more than 10,000 cases reported last year, the UN Population Fund said on Monday. “Displacement and the breakdown of protection mechanisms has drastically increased the vulnerability of women and girls to violence, whose position in society was already at a … Read more