Anti-gay messages conveyed by African leaders have the potential to fuel more violence, corrective rape and other forms of abuse encountered by the LGBTI community
Climate change contributes to the increasing number of women refugees. The author argues that governments’ national adaptation strategies should acknowledge the different gender dimensions of climate change
The South African criminal justice system should deal with cases of gender violence in the same way it dealt with the case of the ‘Facebook rapist’. The country should acknowledge the seriousness of cyber crimes by including them in the...
Women risk exposing themselves to abusive relationships, gender-based violence, serial rapists and even killers each time they join social networking sites with the intention of finding the ‘perfect partner’
Government, civil society organisations and other stakeholders should work together to empower women to use the Internet safely in order to protect them from cyber violence