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Female genital mutilation is on the rise in Africa: disturbing new trends are driving up the numbers
The Conversation· 3 days agoTo eliminate female genital mutilation by 2030, progress would need to be 27 times faster. Understanding shifting trends behind this practice is a start.
Female genital mutilation and its medicalization
World Health Organization· 7 days agoFemale genital mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures that involve the partial or total removal of external genitalia ...
UNICEF USA BrandVoice: Keeping Girls Safe From FGM In The Gambia
Forbes· 2 days agoOver 230 million girls and women worldwide have undergone some form of female genital mutilation...
Swiss court finds Gambian ex-minister guilty of crimes against humanity
Al Jazeera· 1 hour agoSwitzerland’s top criminal court has sentenced Ousman Sonko, a former interior minister of The...
Femicide: many countries around the world are making the killing of women a specific crime – here’s...
The Conversation· 6 days agoThe first documented use of the term “femicide” was in an 1801 book by Irish writer John Corry called A Satirical View of London at the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century where it was used ...
Malawi's school kids are using tablets to improve their reading and math skills
Phys.org· 2 days agoOnly 19% of children aged between 7 and 14 have foundational reading skills and 13% have foundational numeracy skills. Children become especially vulnerable to pernicious social issues such ...
Cameron to call for Nato to set 2.5% defence spending target
Press Association News via AOL· 7 days agoHe is also expected to cite some European countries’ apparent unwillingness to invest in defence...
Cameron: EU must be tougher on Russia and China
Daily Telegraph· 7 days agoLord Cameron’s speech is being billed by the Foreign Office as his first “big picture” policy speech attempting to map out how the UK should approach a...
Is a man who kills his female partner different than other murderers? North Carolina activists say...
The Independent US via AOL· 7 days agoWomen are dying of femicide at a startling rate in many states around the country – with 51 killed...
The Global South Needs More Female Journalists
Newsweek· 6 days agoAs women running newsrooms in Afghanistan and Somalia, countries regularly rated among the worst places on Earth to be a woman, we know what you lose...