Look at almost any charity in this sector and you will find a woman's face, a first name, and a paragraph about what happened to her. It is the standard form of the sector and it is what donors…
You did the frightening thing. You got them out. And within a few weeks one of them is telling you it is your fault, that they want to go home, that their father never did anything, and that you…
For many Nigerian women the hardest conversation is not with the police or a lawyer. It is with her mother. Why families say stay Rarely out of cruelty. Usually out of some combination of the following, and it helps…
Nobody stays for the violence. Women stay for the fortnight afterwards, and that fortnight is the part almost nothing written about abuse takes seriously. If you have been told that you must not really mind, or that you would…
This article deals with rape and sexual assault inside marriage and long term relationships. It is written plainly, because vagueness on this subject helps nobody. You may want to stop reading partway and come back another day, and that…
