#WeAreTired: Nigerian women speak out over wave of violence

Suspected Boko Haram militants abduct at least 20 women in northern Nigeria, near where they kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in April, eyewitnesses say.

Independent Online
Zanzibar fights violence against women
Independent Online
Zanzibar, Tanzania - Natasha Ali was devastated when she realised the man accused of snatching her 14-year-old daughter off a street in Zanzibar and raping her had been freed for lack of evidence. Her daughter was grabbed as she strolled through an ...
Zanzibar police beef up fight against sexual, physical abuse of womenTODAYonline

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About 33 per cent of women in Dodoma have experienced serious physical and psychological abuses and the figure has shown steady increase over the last 12 months, The Citizen can reveal.

'Only legal empowerment will end violence against women'
IPPmedia
Legal empowerment is a practical instrument that could halt massive discrimination and violence against women and girls in Tanzania. “Communities must be empowered if we really want to rescue women and girls from massive human rights violation, which ...

A new project aimed at freeing girls and women from gender-based violence, especially the practice of female genitalmutilation (FGM), has been launched in the district here by the African Medical Research Foundation (Amref), also known as Amref Health Africa.

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Why women in Kinondoni want gender violence mentioned in the constitution
IPPmedia
Recently, women in the country joined their fellows in the world to celebrating the International Women's Day. Women in Kinondoni district used the celebrations platform to insist on the issue of gender based violence (GBV) to be clearly stated in the expected ...

Coronavirus has worsened the growing crisis of gender-based violence in the country.

Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
'Stop All Forms of Violence Against Women', Gender Minister
AllAfrica.com
Monrovia — Liberia's Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Julia Duncan Cassell has alarmed that in the wake of the Ebola epidemic which is an emergency health and development issue, women and children are still being violated. "Different ...
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16 days of activism against gender-based violence beginsGhana Broadcasting Corporation
Free State police campaign...

The 50 return home a month after a woman working as a maid in Beirut was put up for sale on Facebook.