Violence Against Women

Economic empowerment of poor households is a key entry point for development organisations concerned with economic inequality. Over the decades, gender inequality has emerged as a key concern, and the result has been women’s economic empowerment (WEE) programming. This article is a study of the impact of WEE programming on domestic violence (DV) against women. […]

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Some national governments have adopted a wide variety of measures to address violence against women, including legal reform, public education campaigns, and support for shelters and rape crisis centres, but other governments have done little to confront the problem. What accounts for these differences in policy? To answer this question, we analysed policies on violence against women in 70 […]

In the last decade, the world has become digitally hyper-connected, resulting in many activists taking online spaces as a crucial part of their activism. This article focuses on an e-campaign, ‘A Call to Action: Keep Saartjie Baartman Centre Open’, in which feminists located at the Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children and the African […]