Ecowas Court is already advancing women’s rights in the region, but its work could have more impact if it developed a uniform monetary compensation framework.
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Teenage pregnancy makes visible the pressures, relationships and reproductive conditions that shape young people’s lives across southern Africa.
While some creators proudly embrace the label of sex worker, many others reject it outright.
Group interpersonal psychotherapy is an effective way to manage depression among perinatal adolescents.
Tupac is proof that being young, marginal and Black does not necessarily mean being powerless.
The challenge now is not simply helping people live longer, but ensuring they age well.
Not even the #MeToo movement and a reckoning with sexual abuse could rupture the sound-proof walls of South African classical music.
Adolescent girls carry the blame for early pregnancy, yet the boys and men who got them pregnant remain invisible.
Gender-based violence responses must include energy access as a structural intervention, not an add-on.
Alcohol use among adolescent girls and young women cannot be separated from transactional sex, coercion and violence in high HIV-burden settings.
Social capital matters in academic career progress.
Writers from very different places can grapple with the same questions.
Agency is the single most important factor shaping women’s dietary quality, not food availability or household income.
Programmes to address transactional sex need to be customised. The drivers change from country to country.
When armed groups use child recruitment or sexual violence, the impact of conflict on schooling is much more severe than in conflicts without these tactics.
She was a trusted mentor to young militants whose 1976 uprising shaped the country forever.
Eroding the gains made in education has severe consequences, especially for girls.
Childcare responsibilities, housing access and regional cultural norms influence where Nigerian women work.
Trance states may influence the movements depicted in rock art.
Women make up one in three researchers worldwide, but they remain sidelined in scientific organisations.
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