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/CNW/ - Nisha Pahujas Notice Pictures/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) co-production To Kill a Tiger has been nominated for the Oscar for Documentary...

By Kemo Cham Mary is one of the lucky generation of Sierra Leonean teenage girls. Despite being pregnant, she had the opportunity to attend school like a normal girl. Two years ago, Mary’s story would have been different, due to a ban on girls with visible pregnancies. Imposed in 2010, that ban was part of a policy the government said was meant to discourage pregnant girls

Seventy-five years ago, the UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Can we ensure its implementation today?

Djénabou Bélla Diallo, whose clitoris was cut as a child, is now a midwife and renounces the practice. But the custom is still very common in Guinea-Conakry, which has the world’s second highest population of mutilated females

NEW DELHI, Dec 21 (IPS) - Criminal justice systems in South Asia are failing women, despite stark statistics on the prevalence of violence. WHO estimates translate to one in every two women and girls in the region experiencing violence daily.

Criminal justice systems in South Asia are failing women, despite stark statistics on the prevalence of violence, which show one in two women are affected.

"It was just something to do...like getting your hair braided," says Kayowe Mune, describing the mindset held by many communities about female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). Mune, now 42, is a content creator based in Toronto and was cut when she was six years old, as part of what’s known as

A batch of three bills introduced in India’s Parliament to replace archaic, colonial-period laws will retain the existing law that legalizes marital rape.

NEW DELHI, Dec 14 (IPS) - A batch of three bills introduced in India’s Parliament in August to replace archaic, colonial period laws and revamp the criminal justice system will, however, retain the existing law that legalizes marital rape.

Executive director of Baobab for Women Human Rights, Bunmi Dipo-Salami, said the violence against women in politics is rarely reported.