Liberia’s “Rape Court”: Progress for women and girls delayed?
Last year, I reported with the intrepid Glenna Gordon a story about Liberia’s Court E, a court chamber in the capital city of Monrovia…
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Boozing it up in the ‘third world’?: The mix tape
Update, after I got out from under my rock In one of the very active comments sections on the blogs that have taken this…
Read MoreWhy a “girl” can’t “change her mind” about rape
“can a girl change her mind about rape”? Dear Internet surfer who put that into Google and ended up on my blog: No. Rape…
Read MoreWell, that’s one way to deal with a rapist…
From the today’s reporting, at the Open Society Institute’s event “Accountability for Sexual Violence: Innovative Strategies at Work in Africa.” Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, cofounder and…
Read MoreEt cetera, and some good reading
The list of things to blog about is long, but time has been short lately, and this blog, if I would let it, would…
Read MoreA step, or a leap, or maybe nothing at all, for African women
About a week ago, the Christian Science Monitor ran an article I wrote from Sierra Leone on a new law protecting women in war…
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