Study: East Africa’s event-driven coverage of sexual, gender-based violence and femicide creates room for the vice to fester

Study: East Africa’s event-driven coverage of sexual, gender-based violence and femicide creates room for the vice to fester

A stark three per cent focus on perpetrators means the individuals responsible for violence often remain out of sight in media narratives, especially in follow-up reporting whereas only 11 percent of stories amplified survivor voices, despite survivors being central to the narrative of violence.

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Renowned climate justice activist Madina Amin ‘elected’ Garissa Woman Rep ahead of 2027 polls

Renowned climate justice activist Madina Amin ‘elected’ Garissa Woman Rep ahead of 2027 polls

If elected, Madina Amin will become the fourth woman representative of Garissa County. It also be a vote of confidence in leadership that appreciates gender-responsive climate action and climate change contexts. Climate change is one of the most pressing global issues today.

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Paris Olympics: Labelling Algerian boxer Imane Khelif ‘insufficiently female’ is illogic and fascistic gender ideology

Paris Olympics: Labelling Algerian boxer Imane Khelif ‘insufficiently female’ is illogic and fascistic gender ideology

Khelif is a female athlete who was deemed by the International Olympic Committee to be eligible to compete. She is only the latest woman of colour in sports to be deemed insufficiently female by a right-wing commentariat obsessed with forging the strictest gender binaries, contrary to social, biological and medical realities.

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