In Sudan, women are well-represented in the workforce. They are not lacking in any public spaces. And over the past few months, they have made up half, if not more, of the protest crowds making demands of their new transitional government.
In Sudan, women are well-represented in the workforce. They are not lacking in any public spaces. And over the past few months, they have made up half, if not more, of the protest crowds making demands of their new transitional government.
By Nasredeen Abdulbari
Women had borne the brunt of the former president’s policies and were able to draw on Sudanese traditions to be heard.
By Nasredeen Abdulbari
Women had borne the brunt of the former president’s policies and were able to draw on Sudanese traditions to be heard.
Sudan’s transition must be inclusive if it is to build a country for all Sudanese.
The image is striking: a young woman, alone, standing above the crowd, urging them on with songs of revolution.
By iKNOW Politics expert Dr.Amina Alrasheed Nayel
By iKNOW Politics expert Dr.Amina Alrasheed Nayel
In the ongoing war in Sudan, there is an insufficiently narrated tragedy—the plight of women who are paying a hefty price for this war and are simultaneously being kept from the table in the discussion of how this war can end.
In the ongoing war in Sudan, there is an insufficiently narrated tragedy—the plight of women who are paying a hefty price for this war and are simultaneously being kept from the table in the discussion of how this war can end.
This chapter is from a book “Ending Violence against Women: A Challenge for Development”, the book was written by Francine Pickup with Suzanne Williams a
This chapter is from a book “Ending Violence against Women: A Challenge for Development”, the book was written by Francine Pickup with Suzanne Williams a
Participants in a women's only peace conference in South Sudan's Jonglei state took the drastic step of saying they would leave their homes and refrain from child bearing if men in their communities continued to seek violent solutions to ongoing conflicts in the troubled region rather than peacef