Women’s and adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health is related to multiple human rights, including the right to life, the right to be free from torture, the right to...
If the gender ratio of the 3,800 attendants of the fifth International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), the world’s largest gathering on sexual and reproductive health and...
What policy makers need to know about gender and sustainability Most of the current sustainable development policies include gender considerations However, the progress...
The problem with becoming a man is that no one really teaches you how to live it out, partly because everyone will do masculinity in their own unique ways But most importantly...
While a crisis of masculinity is being witnessed the world over, it looks different in every region In Kenya, a heady mix of influences – from urbanisation to religion,...
Last semester, a student in the masculinity course I teach showed a video clip she had found online of a toddler getting what appeared to be his first vaccinations Off camera, we...
We hear that girls in Africa don’t have the same opportunities as boys to get a decent education, that discrimination is shutting women out of the jobs and assets they need to...
BODY LANGUAGE Weaved up Check Larney accent Check Yellow bone Check Manicured nails Check Make-up contoured to the nines and designer duds for days Check Congratulations...
It shouldn’t be extraordinary for men to talk about having body image issues It was the summer of 1999 I went to the mall with my friend Derek, and we ran into one of his...
Members of the Bring Back Our Girls group campaigning for the release of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists march to meet with the Nigerian president in...
