Ending Violence against Women in Africa

Violence against women (VAW) is defined by the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (DEVAW) as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to r…

The Isis-WICCE Model of Empowerment

The model showcases Isis-WICCE strategies and initiatives of making a difference in women's lives in peace building and post conflict recovery processes in Africa and beyond and making it part and …

Feminist Rhetoric in the Digital Sphere: Digital Interventions & the Subversi…

Firstly, I define feminist rhetoric as any written or spoken act about feminisms[5] within the context of feminist inteFirstly, I define feminist rhetoric as any written or spoken act about feminis…

Tracing "Feminist Peace" from Beijing to MDGs and Beyond

Since 1996, Isis-WICCE had demonstrated an impressive alternative to the world's limited responses to situations of armed conflict particularly in addressing women's dire needs. We have had extensi…

AMWA Beijing Herstory

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Dismantling ‘You Get What You Deserve’: Towards a Feminist Sociology of R…

With this research, we seek to formulate a feminist sociology of revenge porn, defined as the non-consensual circulation of intimate images with the intent to harm, to bring together two existing e…

The Origins of the Feminist Movement in Senegal: A Social History of the Pion…

In this paper, we explain the emergence of Yewwu-Yewwi, the first feminist movement in Senegal. The genealogy, as well as the objectives of the movement, are reconstructed and we analyze the sociop…

Beyond Victims: Re-representation of Women in Conflicts

The intransigent nature of war in parts of Eastern Africa continues to be a grave concern to the world. Periods of violence within the region have invoked memories of conflict by men and women. Thi…

Feminst Organising for Women's Rights in Africa: Current and Emerging Issues

The growth most countries have witnessed is driven by extraction: oil, gas, forest products and other resources that came out of the land. The sustainability of this model of growth, the immediate …

Report of the Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo 21st September, 200…

From the 21st o f September to the 1st o f October, 2008, the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) in conjunction with the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), Global Fund for Wo…