Tag: violence against women

Experiences of women survivors of violence in the mainstream media - Part 1

Who broke-the-story-first? Image by Sylvia Nalubega, UGA, Oct/2021, via AWDF/AfriRep It is March of 2018 in Uganda. The conversation on prevalent sexual assault is frequenting media, civil society, and public conversation spaces as part of the International Women’s Day momentum. One prominent news publication runs a social media campaign asking women to share their sexual […]

Generating Knowledge and Evidence on the Prevention of Violence Against Women

AN INTRODUCTORY GUIDE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN’S ORGANISATIONS   Are you an African women’s rights organisation, activist, practitioner, researcher, storyteller, artist, writer or an individual/organisation who deeply cares about the prevention of Violence Against Women (VAW)? AWDF is excited to introduce this Introductory Guide for African Women’s Organisations which offers critical insights for you and your work. […]

Video: Prudence Mabele of ‘Positive Women’s Network’ and member of AWLN speaks on Violence against Women in South Africa

Prudence Mabele is the Executive Director of the ‘Positive Women’s Network‘ (PWN) in South Africa, an organisation that supports women living positively. To date, PWN has received US$210,000 in grants from the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF). This has included funding to support the expansion of PWN’s ‘Community Home Based Care’ programme, bursaries for staff to […]

A RESOURCE PAPER: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

In recent months, AWDF has noticed with deep concern, a rise in the frequency of violence-related deaths and injuries, and domestic violence cases being reported by the various Ghanaian mediahouses. Not only does it seem that violence has increased, it also seems that it comes in a wider variety of instances, some increasingly brutal and […]

CALL TO ACTION! – STOPPING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN GHANA

For the past few months, our radios and air spaces have been blasting out and vibrating with hair-raising acts of violence against women and children. What concerns us is the obvious disparity between the levels of violence before, and the levels currently. The magnitude of violence in Ghana is now overwhelming, and calls for immediate […]

Take Back the Tech: Technology, Violence and 16 Days of Activism

At the last Association of Women in Development Forum (AWID), I was one of a group of feminists that participated in a ‘Feminist Tech Exchange’, and since then I have been even more excited about the opportunity that technology holds for women’s empowerment – women can publish and share their own stories via the vast […]