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Civil society’s #MeToo moment: ‘We are complicit in creating environments that...

Yvette Raphael - August 6, 2019

The department of social development has long relied on international donors to pay for the counselling rape survivors need. Is it time for SA to finally foot the bill?

Bathabile Dlamini & the case of SA’s disappearing rape crisis services

Nelisiwe Msomi - June 11, 2019

Women queue outside of a Malawian health facility for healthcare for their children. Moving rape crisis centres out of central hospitals in Malawi and into clinics closer to communities might increase the number of people who use them

What’s the one thing rape crisis centres in SA & Malawi...

Josephine Chinele - June 6, 2019

In the company of women: Judia

The village where men are banned

Julie Bindel - April 2, 2019

A World Health Organization official looks on as health workers in Conakry receive training during the 2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Why money earmarked to fight Ebola may have financed one man’s...

Rebecca Ratcliffe - January 22, 2019

A Zimbabwean secondary school student peeps through a hole in a sack that forms the wall of a makeshift classroom.

‘My family had no business selling me off for R4’

Nyasha Chingono - January 14, 2019

Elsa and Nosipho: They both sell sex for a living, but...

Mia Malan - December 6, 2018

How do you fix South Africa's sexual and reproductive health wrongs? Well

This bracelet could one day help keep you safe from rape,...

Roxy de Villiers - December 4, 2018

Ramaphosa plans to combat gender-based violence with a new national strategic plan.

SA to launch plan to tackle gender-based violence. Read Ramaphosa’s speech...

Bhekisisa Team - November 1, 2018

The South African police took a vow to protect people living in the country. Apparently that doesn't apply to sex workers like Cleopatra.

#SliceOfLife: This is what it’s like being a sex worker: ‘Police...

Dylan Bush - October 11, 2018

Acid victim Hanifa Nakiryowa founded the Center for Rehabilitation of Survivors of Acid and Burns Violence.

Acid attacks: ‘I didn’t have the money to buy justice, but...

Nelisiwe Msomi - September 14, 2018

A woman watches from her window as police look for evidence after 20-year-old Carlos Barron was shot and killed in Chicago. The city is still very racially segregated and has high rates of violence.

This slashed rates of violence by 70% in some areas. Could...

Samira Shackle - August 30, 2018

Sexual violence is rife in Khayelitsha primary schools

Almost half of Khayelitsha primary school learners have experienced sexual violence

Joan van Dyk - August 7, 2018

“[The female officer] was going to teach all the 'prostitutes' a lesson. The male police officers grabbed those ladies so the lady could force the [used] condoms into each lady’s mouth

One in three sex workers surveyed report being sexually abused by...

Pontsho Pilane - May 16, 2018

Social media has become a breading ground for racism and other harmful behaviour.

Black? A woman? Read why you’re more likely to be a...

Gaia Vince - April 11, 2018

Eritrean women at a refugee camp in Sudan. Experts say kidnapping has become big business along the Eritrean border.

Captured, raped, ransomed: The kidnappers preying on teenagers far from home

Sally Hayden - February 16, 2018

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