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Every day, women journalists around the world open their social media accounts knowing they may face a barrage of sexually explicit threats, body-shaming comments, and coordinated harassment campaigns designed to silence their reporting. According to UNESCO’s landmark global study, 73 per cent of women journalists (three out of four) have experienced onlineContinue Reading

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On the occasion of International Safe Abortion Day, observed globally on 28 September, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) underscores the critical and urgent message of the 2025 theme: “Safe Abortion is Life-Saving Healthcare.” Across our continent, unsafe abortion remains a devastating public health crisis and a graveContinue Reading

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According to the government report covering 2011–2025, a total of 457,000 households benefited from cash transfers amounting to 140.179 billion CFA francs between 2017 and 2024. It is not often emphasized, but deprivation of resources is considered a form of gender-based violence. For this reason, women’s empowerment has been establishedContinue Reading

Faute d’argent, les programmes de lutte contre la violence envers les femmes sont au bord du gouffre

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Budget cuts are dismantling grassroots organizations fighting violence against women and girls, the United Nations agency for gender equality warned on Monday. A new UN Women report, titled At Risk and Underfunded, based on a global survey of 428 women’s rights and civil society organizations, reveals that one in three groupsContinue Reading