South Africa is commemorating 70 years since the Women's March of 1956, when 20,000 women protested apartheid laws in Pretoria. Despite progress, gender violence and other factors impede the path to ...
Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Mmamoloko said the process to repeal outdated colonial and apartheid laws is at an advanced stage, with a bill already approved by the Cabinet for ...
At South Africa’s National Women’s Day commemoration on August 9, President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke, among other things, about the Taliban’s systematic oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan.
The legacies of Jim Crow in the U.S and apartheid in South Africa are evident today in entrenched disparities that Black ...
This summer marked a historic milestone for the movement to legally recognize gender apartheid as a crime under international law. This effort is a key priority for our organizations; we see it as an ...
Three years ago, the U.S. and its allies evacuated thousands of Afghans who had worked with them during the war against the Taliban. But the women and girls who remain in Afghanistan now live under a ...
Despite achieving political freedom, South Africa grapples with economic inequality, leaving millions without a path to prosperity.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court on Wednesday ruled that displaying the country's apartheid-era flag in public constituted hate speech that discriminated against black people and ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. On March 6, 2023, Richard Bennett, United Nations Special ...
Duncan Kennedy ’64 is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Emeritus at Harvard Law School. Last July, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, with bipartisan support, a resolution stating ...