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The second phase of the Lesotho Highlands must not repeat the mistakes of the first phase in which women were displaced and disempowered. Photo: File

Lesotho Highlands Water Project must work with women, not against them

Public banks – Development Bank of Southern Africa, African Development Bank and the New Development Bank – and the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority render women invisible…

(Photo: Jairus Mmutle/GCIS)

Editorial: A path forward at last

The reporting of sexual violence has been one of the ugliest blights of our democracy. Research throughout the years has revealed disturbing accounts of women regularly shunned…

File photo by Marco Longari/AFP

Only by protecting women’s rights can we protect women’s health

The health of young women and girls is shaped by gender-based inequalities and violence

Afghan women and girls take part in a protest in front of the Ministry of Education in Kabul on March 26, 2022, demanding that high schools be reopened for girls. (Photo by Ahmad SAHEL ARMAN / AFP)

The Taliban cannot defeat Afghan women’s thirst for education

The Taliban has eroded the rights of women. But Afghans are not taking the regime’s draconian policies lying down, and nor should the rest of the world

Aerial view of long horns cows in a Mundari tribe cattle camp, Central Equatoria, Terekeka, South Sudan. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP)

‘I am scared my parents will marry me off against my will’

As a girl child, I am valuable to my family. When they tried to marry me off, I ran away. But now I am back home. In a country where girls have few rights

The Taliban’s war on education for women and girls

Afghanistan and its people have suffered enough. It is crucial that adolescent girls’ right to an education, and women’s to work, be restored

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Women’s unpaid work results in time-poverty which reduces gender equity and women’s economic empowerment

Women are thus forced into lower-paying jobs, leading to limited economic productivity and growth of national economies

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Child marriage is a negative coping mechanism for millions of girls

Many people do not see it as a crime, but rather a tradition they should follow without question. Regular school attendance can keep girls out of harm’s way

Princess Shuri gives girls a science boost

The smart, fun and easy-going warrior scientist in the film ‘Wakanda’ challenges gender stereotypes

Covid and conflict: When schools close because of the pandemic, and poverty forces girls and women into sex work, pregnancies surge.  (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

Cameroon’s twin crises create surge in teen pregnancy

When conflict and Covid-19 disrupt schooling and devastate the economy, girls drop out, and teen pregnancies rise

Women must be allowed to determine their own future

Times of unprecedented crisis present unique opportunities for unprecedented action

The world has a chance to improve the lives of women, especially those living in Africa

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Jezebel might not win for feminism with Lena Dunham’s body

US site Jezebel has proudly published the results of its hunt for the pre-Photoshopped Vogue photos of Lena Dunham. But what does this achieve?