Climate Change Disproportionately Affects Women And Young Girls – And Here’s...
A symposium on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Gender and Climate Change Resilience organized by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund in Pretoria, South Africa discussed issues on how...
View ArticleCall for Proposals: SVRI and World Bank Group Development Marketplace Award...
The Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) and the World Bank Group (WBG) are seeking applications for innovative research and interventions or related activities that will contribute to the...
View ArticleActivists In RSA Urge All Of Us To Act: We All Have A Role To Play.
Several women, including long-time community activists, took center stage nationally this past week during the massive marches in Cape Town against endemic rape, murder and abuse of South African...
View ArticleThe Place of Men In Women’s Rights? Accountability Must Be on The Table
Women’s rights movements and social justice movements have long challenged globalized patriarchal power structures. Over time there’s been progress and clarity about the multi-dimensional ways in which...
View ArticleMake the Women’s Vote Count.
According to Electoral institute for Sustainable Democracy data, more than 15 African countries will be holding elections this year. Both men and women are going to be involved in the electoral...
View ArticleLet the Women Lead Us Into A Better Future
The women of South Africa have had enough, and they are ready to lead. For centuries, under British colonial rule, Afrikaner apartheid and the ANC majority, men have been entrusted with the most...
View ArticleNigeria Must Mind The Wide Gap
All over the world, gender inequality has been analyzed as one of the major causes of poverty for women. In Nigeria, women who make up slightly less than 50% of Nigeria’s population, account for more...
View ArticleAbahlali’s Heritage Day rally condemns violence.
Abahlali BaseMjondolo is a shack dwellers movement in South Africa that now organises in five provinces. They held their Heritage Day Celebration rally at the Vusumuzi shack settlement in Tembisa,...
View ArticleThe 16 Days are almost here!
Are you curious to know what has been happening and what is in the pipeline with the GBV Prevention Network? We have shared the highlights in the quarterly bulletin, we have had exciting events between...
View ArticleWhat Will It Take to Ensure That Women’s Lives Are Valued?
Ahead of the SVRI Conference in South Africa, Members of the Coalition of Feminists for Social Change (COFEM), Global Women’s Institute at the George Washington University, Raising Voices and VOICE...
View ArticleThe SVRI Forum Spotlight: Raising Voices revises SASA! Together
The SVRI Forum 2019 took place in Cape town, South Africa, from the 21st to 25th of October 2019. It is a research conference on violence against women and other forms of violence driven by gender...
View ArticleBuilding Feminist Momentum to Prevent VAW in Africa.
“Feminist leadership, coupled with strengthened investments in programming and policy have shifted the discourse from violence as inevitable to preventable. We know now that we can prevent violence...
View ArticleCelebrating the life of Bogaletch Gebre; The Ethiopian women’s rights...
Bogaletch, “the woman who began the rebellion of Ethiopian women” commonly known as Boge, dedicated her life to empowering women and girls in Ethiopia, successfully changing attitudes around taboo...
View ArticleJob Opportunities – Join our exciting team!
Raising Voices would like you to hear from you! Raising Voices hosts the GBV Prevention Network, we work to prevent violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC). We are a...
View ArticleBeyond Nigeria’s Untouchable Sexual Predators: Imagining Safe Workspaces for...
As part of our 16 Days of Activism this year, as the GBV Prevention Network, we have published an article on sexual harassment in the workplace. Kechi, a Nigerian, poet and prose writer urges everyone;...
View ArticleRe-Prioritizing Violence Against Women in Sierra Leone.
Fatou writes about the need for Feminist work to politicize and bring to the frontal lobe of global policy the prioritization of violence against women as caused by unequal gender power dynamics...
View ArticleI am Generation Equality: Tina Musuya, feminist and advocate for ending...
Tina Musuya, Feminist and Executive Director Uganda’s Center for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP) and an advocate for ending gender-based violence shares why she is Generation Equality, things...
View ArticleGuidance Notes on Prevention Violence Against Women during the COVID-19.
Raising Voices developed series of Guidance notes on Preventing Violence Against Women during the COVID-19. The 5 Guidance notes focus on how organizations can prepare to best support staff,...
View ArticleWho Owns our Bodies?
“In many of our African societies, decision-making positions in government are held by men, including in institutions where decisions about women’s issues are made. This is where regulations on basic...
View ArticleThe GBV Prevention Network is seeking a Feminist Animator.
The GBV Prevention Network (www.preventgbvafrica.org) is looking for a graphic animation firm or individual animators to develop short (~3 minute) animations on feminist topics (body politics,...
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