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The climate crisis is a sexual health and reproductive rights emergency
27 Apr 2024 09:17 GMT
… wake of Earth Day, West Africa is facing a historic and … with food and emergency medicine in humanitarian relief efforts … prostitution, forced marriage and unwanted pregnancy. Women are not only … urine for fear of being sexually assaulted.
So many women …
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Sex for grades: How lecturers across Africa prey on female students
27 Apr 2024 05:10 GMT
… sexually transmitted infections.
Some of the highest publicised cases in Nigeria … support the non-sexual policies between students … productivity. During her medical studies at the University … African continent.
Jeff Anthony is a novelist, a Big Brother Africa …
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Advocating for Vulnerable Voices: Raising Awareness for Child Abuse and Sexual Assault
26 Apr 2024 16:41 GMT
Susan Abro, of Susan Abro Attorney, a respected advocate for women and children’s rights, joins the global community in observing April as Child Abuse Awareness and Sexual Assault Awareness month. With an unwavering commitment to addressing the prevalence …
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Nairobi to Kigali: How East Africa's trio is tackling domestic violence
26 Apr 2024 03:50 GMT
… physical injuries or emotional disorder, how it affects … unintended pregnancies, induced abortions, miscarriage, stillbirth, and sexually transmitted … (45 per cent) and Liberia (43 per cent).
Others … organisations across the East African region are running …
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‘No Significant Changes In Liberia’s Human Rights Situation’ – Says U.S. State Department
26 Apr 2024 00:27 GMT
… of medical supplies and medication available in … Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) … Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency Maryland Detachment, Sergeant Joseph Targeddine, allegedly sexually … school attendance of pregnant students, leaving …
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Re-examining Patriarchy, Faith: Domestic violence, faith integration in Nigeria, by Michael Olatunbosun
25 Apr 2024 09:51 GMT
The book: “Domestic Violence and Faith Integration in Nigeria,” written by Dr. Adebola Ishola (2023, Jedidiah Prints), focuses on the menace of domestic violence, its enablers and how all critical stakeholders can contribute to its mitigation. The author …
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Sudan: Sexual violence against women at terrifying levels
25 Apr 2024 10:12 GMT
… Forces (RSF) are abducting, sexually assaulting, exploiting and selling women … out that she had become pregnant as a result of the … Khor Jahannam published by the African Center for Justice and … managed to escape and receive medical treatment in Wad Madani.
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Nigerian parenting: Past and present
25 Apr 2024 01:30 GMT
… 47;genealogies. In the African world-view, parenting is … south western region of Nigeria. Stubborn children particularly … -colonial education. Nigeria, a microcosm of Africa, has failed … trans-sexualism/;cross-dressing (a case of psychological disorder in …
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Fieldwork: One of Harpur’s first grads in global public health conducts research in Ghana
23 Apr 2024 12:37 GMT
Yasmeen Gilani’s senior year in high school was anything but typical. Sequestered at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, the New Hyde Park native watched the Black Matters protest unfold in the news.
“I realized that a lot of the systems that I had …
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Rachel Sullivan Robinson Named SIS Scholar-Teacher of the Year
25 Apr 2024 18:16 GMT
… interventions in sub-Saharan Africa.
At the Scholar-Teacher … and sexuality education. Her book, Intimate Interventions: Preventing Pregnancy and … research in Namibia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Senegal, and current … homophobia in sub-Saharan Africa and the extent of …