Six-month openDemocracy investigation reveals ‘degrading and discriminatory’ treatment at health centres in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Major NGOs that run clinics in Kenya and Tanzania also pledge action against ‘abhorrent’ practices to ‘change’ individuals’ sexual orientation
Major hospitals also offered undercover reporters counselling to ‘change’ their sexual orientation. Health experts blame a lack of regulation
Why did women MPs support a new law that entrenches oppression?
Conservative groups increase their spending and activity in what critics call an ‘opportunistic use of Africans’ for US-style ‘culture wars’
A meaningful response to obstetric violence requires political will from policy-makers and accountability for government failures.
Our team of feminist investigative journalists is documenting abuses of women’s rights during COVID-19. We need your help to finish the job.
From marketing beer with pandemic lingo to giving money to governments, a new report argues that corporate capture of COVID-19 is putting lives at risk.
Exclusive: Women have died or suffered unsafe births after transport bans, while hospitals report rising equipment shortages.
Controlling COVID-19 is worsening Africa’s HIV epidemic and destroying HIV services, with sex workers facing hardship, illness and death.
