Centering women’s safety while navigating through COVID -19 Pandemic
People around the world are experiencing and witnessing a unique and challenging moment in history due to COVID-19. After its…
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Guidance Notes on Prevention Violence Against Women during the COVID-19.
Raising Voices developed series of Guidance notes on Preventing Violence Against Women during the COVID-19. The 5 Guidance notes focus on…
Re-Prioritizing Violence Against Women in Sierra Leone.
Fatou writes about the need for Feminist work to politicize and bring to the frontal lobe of global policy the…
Celebrating the life of Bogaletch Gebre; The Ethiopian women’s rights activist who fought to end female genital mutilation.
Bogaletch, “the woman who began the rebellion of Ethiopian women” commonly known as Boge, dedicated her life to empowering women…
Building Feminist Momentum to Prevent VAW in Africa.
“Feminist leadership, coupled with strengthened investments in programming and policy have shifted the discourse from violence as inevitable to preventable.…
The SVRI Forum Spotlight: Raising Voices revises SASA! Together
The SVRI Forum 2019 took place in Cape town, South Africa, from the 21st to 25th of October 2019. It…
What Will It Take to Ensure That Women’s Lives Are Valued?
Ahead of the SVRI Conference in South Africa, Members of the Coalition of Feminists for Social Change (COFEM), Global Women’s…
Abahlali’s Heritage Day rally condemns violence.
Abahlali BaseMjondolo is a shack dwellers movement in South Africa that now organises in five provinces. They held their Heritage…
Nigeria Must Mind The Wide Gap
All over the world, gender inequality has been analyzed as one of the major causes of poverty for women. In…
Make the Women’s Vote Count.
According to Electoral institute for Sustainable Democracy data, more than 15 African countries will be holding elections this year. Both…