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Men and women are protesting against gender-based violence together in Pretoria, South Africa, in April 2025.

Mental health

Why African men should help end patriarchy

Patriarchy grants men privileges, but it also comes with norms and expectations that inflict serious harm on their mental and physical health. Oluyinka Ojedokun, professor of psychology in Nigeria and South Africa, explains why it is in African men’s interests...

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Instead of going to school, young women are forced by the Taliban to stay at home.

Afghanistan

Where women are absent

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by Hila Limar
Kamola Alieva, lawyer and women’s rights activist.

Women's rights activists

“The criminalisation of domestic violence was a milestone”

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by Kamola Alieva
On International Women’s Day 2019, Afghan artists painted this graffiti on the wall of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, which was dissolved by the Taliban in 2021. The premises are now home to the “Ministry of Praying and Instructing, Promoting Virtue, and Preventing Vice”, which oversees the implementation of Islamic law.

Women in Afghanistan

“Even that red line no longer exists”

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
The Islamist regime is enforcing a repressive dress code, including in Kabul.

Gender justice

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women

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by Khushboo Srivastava