Gender & SGBV
HumAngle’s Gender Desk tracks incidents of gender-based violence. It also reports policy gaps as they affect gender issues. It focuses on GBV issues in conflict areas, displacement camps, other large-scale conflict situations, and post-conflict circumstances (e.g. experiences of widows). It also looks at the issues of sex for food and rape as a weapon of war.
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Help Needed To Check Risky Sexual Behaviour Among Adolescents In Nigeria – Research
Despite being aware of HIV and AIDS and associated risks, young adolescents in Nigerian secondary schools still indulge in risky…
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MSF Creates Centre For Victims Of Sexual Violence In Bangui, CAR
The international medical humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres or Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has created a centre in the Central…
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Fleeing Rapes And Killings At Home, Nigerian Women In Refugee Camps In Niger Republic Find Safety And Healing
On a reporting trip to several refugee camps in Niger Republic where thousands of fleeing Nigerian families from Sokoto and…
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Kano Assembly Recommends Castration As Punishment For Rape
The Kano State House of Assembly has begun a process to further amend the State’s Penal Code amendment (No.12), the…
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Gender Based Violence On The Rise In Namibia’s Capital City
Namibia’s capital city, Windhoek, has seen a rise in Gender-Based Violence (GBV) since the ease of restrictions, under state three…
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NGO Suspends Worker Accused of Raping Minor in Borno
A non-governmental organisation, Street Child, has suspended a male staff accused of raping a 10-year old girl in Borno. The…
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Borno: Child-Brides Share Painful Experiences With VVF, Childbirth
Adama (not real name) was married at 13 and got pregnant at 14. She has never visited the hospital for…
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How Divorce Exposes Poor Divorced Women, Children To Prostitution, Crime
The divorce rate in Northern Nigeria is among the highest in West Africa. In recent times, particularly in Kano State,…
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Agonies And Lamentations Of Single Women In Northern Nigeria
Zainab Bello (not real name), is a 32-year-old Fulani woman and hails from Yobe state. She has endured domestic abuse…
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Sexual Violence Against Women On The Rise In DR Congo
Most recent figures available just published by the Joint United Nations Bureau on Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of…
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