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The Prosecutor v Dominic Ongwen: Joint amicus curiae submission by SALC and Prof. Bonita Meyersfeld

Q&A: How can a global treaty to end violence against women succeed? - The New Humanitarian puts quality, independent journalism at the service of the millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the world

‘Kidnapped, Raped and Trafficked’: Women and Girls Exposed to Sexual Violence in War-torn Mozambique. Twenty-year-old Sarah* sat among a group of women, clutching her four-year-old daughter, Awa, close to her chest and hoping to be ignored by the chief of the insurgent group that had captured them...

As conflict rages in Cabo Delgado, women and girls are being used as sex slaves and forced to marry insurgent fighters

The forms of violence referred to as harmful practices, include female genital mutilation, child marriage, bride kidnapping, female infanticide, forced feeding, breast ironing, among others. These practices deny girls their right to choice, right to freedom to determine their future, and have long-term health and psychological implications.

Amnesty International says laws enacted to prevent and protect people from rape are underutilised and not effective in Nigeria.

Healthy-looking and lighter-skinned women and girls are at high risk of being kidnapped and sold as part of the sex slave trade in conflict-torn northern Cabo Delgado, according to a report.

An armed group linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) has since 2018 kidnapped and enslaved more than 600 women and girls in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province, Human Rights Watch said today.

Forty-two years after the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by the UN General Assembly, and 14 years since the Domestic Violence Act (Act 732) was passed by Ghana’s Parliament, GBV continues unabated and many women, girls, men and boys continually suffer.

The persistence of violence against women and girls in Africa is mainly associated with gender power relations.