A deluge of claims against Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein has sparked countless stories of sexual harassment in the social media #MeToo campaign, with women using...
Faced with escalating violence, a lack of funding, and locked out of male-dominated networks, many women are reluctant to enter politics with growing concerns that a...
by Emma Batha LONDON, Oct 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Ugandan schoolgirl Auma got her first period she asked her mother for sanitary pads. Her...
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered his disengagement of Abdulrasheed Maina, a fugitive former federal official who was declared wanted and somehow regained a top position in the...
I have been following the news and reading the accounts of women coming forward to talk about being assaulted by Harvey Weinstein and others. I had...
Masika Pictured in this report is a survivor of conflict in DRC and a rape victim Eliza Anyangwe, of CNN is reporting about a seven-minute video...
LONDON, Oct 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – French women have taken to social media to share tales of sexual harassment, outstripping the #MeToo campaign with a...
by Kusan Abu Maiduguri, Oct 19- Following the uncooperative attitude and dictatorial tendencies of the new Director General of the National Emergence Management Agency (NEMA), Engr....
By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani ABUJA, Oct 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The launch of Nigeria’s first state-owned DNA lab will speed up rape cases and should...
Mercy Abang The Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has prescribed far-reaching constitutional reforms as panacea for the challenges of leadership and development...
by Mercy Abang Bintu Imam is only 12 but her formal education might be officially over. The young girl has become breadwinner for her family. The 13-year-old...