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Interview with the cast of Pray the Devil Back to Hell
“Pray the Devil Back to Hell” Robtel Pailey interviews the cast and members of the production team. The film is available in full on PBS along with four other films in the series “Women War and...
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IWD: We the poor women in this rich world
*I would like to sincerely apologise to those who follow my writings for my long absence. Among other things I have spent the past month focused on lobbying the Committee on the Elimination of All...
View ArticleReflections on Charles Taylor and Justice
Much has changed since I covered the first day of Charles Taylor’s trial for Pambazuka News on June 4, 2007. That day, he failed to show up to court, calling the case against him a “farce.” Today, he...
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Zanele Muholi: Raising consciousness through art
Is their a link between the defacement of “The Spear”, the painting of Jacob Zuma which shows his genitals and the theft of five years of Zanele Muholi’s work? Is free expression through art or any...
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Hate Crimes South Africa: 2001 – July 2012
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View Article#16Days: AWID Condemns Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill
The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) strongly condemns the repeated efforts, now for the third time, to introduce the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda’s Parliament. We stand in...
View ArticleThe Arrogance or Ignorance of Privilege
The 25th of November to the 10th of December marked the annual 16 days of activism against gender based violence, a period designated by the United Nations for continuous lobbying and advocacy,...
View ArticleA crime against humanity
In this modern world of instant information, have we become inured to horror? Every day we are exposed to pictures and films of extreme violence, they flicker through our consciousness, moving on to...
View ArticleOutrage! & One Billion Rising, Whats the Point? Lessons from GBV movement...
From Thought Leader – Talia Meer asks what is the point of “1 billion Rising” and from Women and Beyond the Global – Wondering about Outrage! beyond personal gratification? Particularly when it is...
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Gendercide
From Bernedette Muthien Ova the poetry of Bernedette Muthien gendercide it took a full week of straitjacketing generations of genocidal femicidal trauma for the clay dam wall to explode and flood me in...
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Haiti – Feminist Series 4, In conversation with Flaurantin Marie Enise
Looking up into Jalouzi Jalouzi is a hillside neighborhood of about 200,000 people overlooking lower Petion-Ville. It is accessible from two roads, one at the top and one below. The view from the top...
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Sentencing of the Oxford rapists: – Women protest both rape and racism
Police and social workers also trashed victims — will they be prosecuted? Old Bailey, London, 26 June 2013, 10-12 noon Women Against Rape Seven men will be sentenced for 43 offences — ranging from rape...
View ArticleQueer interventions – When victories in America’s culture wars become...
It is nearly two months since the Nigerian Senate passed the Same Sex Marriage Bill [SSMB 2013] yet the Bill is still awaiting presidential approval. It’s not clear why Goodluck Jonathan is...
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Nompumelelo: Decomposed Bitterly
From HOLAAFrica – Nompumelelo’s current research focused on women who are killed and their bodies merely lie ‘Decomposed Bitterly’ (a reference to the concept of Human Traffic). She says: ‘I use my...
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Venus Noire – A film about Saartjie Baartman
Via Shadow and Act – The story of Saartjie Baartman [Parts 1 & 2]The film is in French with subtitles but unfortunately I havent had much success in watching it. I would love to hear from anyone...
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Battle Between the Stone & the Tree: Sharia & Women in Nigeria
From Women’s E News, an excerpt from “Your Fatwa Doesn’t Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism“ by Karima Bennoune. In this excerpt Bennoune explains how externally...
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Odi Massacre & Origins of Militancy in Ijawland
Kaiama – December 1998 Kaiama is a small town in Western Ijaw, about half an hour’s drive from Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State. Historically Kaiama is famous for being the birth place of Major...
View ArticlePolicing our Sexuality: The Conservatives War Arsenal Grows {Uganda,...
“Policing our Sexuality: The Conservatives War Arsenal Grows” by Happy Mwende Kinyili for the Queer African Network The recently passed bills in Nigeria, the Same-Sex Prohibition Act, and in Uganda,...
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Nigeria: Chibok, A Living Nightmare, Find our Daughters
Relatives of Kidnapped Girls [Source: TheGuardian.com] Women across Nigeria are protesting the abduction of 234 schoolgirls from Chibok, in north east Nigeria, which took place on Monday April the...
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