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Tears from Teshie – Accra, Ghana’s coastal crisis
ACCRA, Ghana — The rape of a 13-year-old girl by a group of three young men from her own village was one of the first reported cases in 2013. Outside of LEKMA hospital in Accra, near the coastal fishing village of Teshie, the grandmother of the young rape victim puts a handkerchief over her face…
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Rights Radio Report #6: Rape in the Western Cape
Five women have been killed in South Africa during the month of February, 2013. An increasing amount of violence against women in the Western Cape province has brought young men and women into the streets of Cape Town to call for change. They were gathered in front of the Western Cape legislature on Feb. 21…