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#EachforEqual: Women’s Rights are Human Rights

This being the month that we celebrate the International Women’s Day on 8th March, it has been quite refreshing to wake up to the news of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sentencing. Harvey was sentenced on Wednesday to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault. Finally the women get retribution for the awful crimes […]

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Gender Based Violence — a human rights violation

By Yvonne Mwende Notwithstanding significant attempts to curb Gender Based Violence (GBV), it still remains the most extreme expression of unequal gender relations in society and a violation of human rights. Arguably a major obstacle for the achievement of gender justice, posing a serious threat to democratic development and public health, and a critical barrier

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Wings of Hope Rescue Home Receive Courage for New Beginnings

By Yvonne E Mwende “…history despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again….” From the poem, ‘On the Pulse of Morning’, By Maya Angelou However, much we try we cannot rewrite history, but we can create new beginnings for a better tomorrow. On September 7, 2019,

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