Prevalence of sexual harassment in newsrooms across Guinea-Bissau harmful to media women's mental and physical well-being. This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 24 February 2023.
In Guinea-Bissau, the Constitution guarantees fundamental political, civil, economic, social, and cultural rights. But for many, especially in rural areas, those rights remain aspirational. Despite ...
On Sunday, several hundred women protesters in Guinea-Bissau attacked a Chinese-run zircon mining site near the northwest border with Senegal. The protestors set the facilities and equipment on fire ...
Bissau—Guinea-Bissau has taken an important step in strengthening maternal health and women’s rights with the technical validation of the Draft Law on Safe Abortion Care and the corresponding Clinical ...
In the village of Mafam, in eastern Guinea-Bissau, Adama Djau had to travel over two hours by public transport on poorly maintained roads to reach the nearest hospital. Pregnant with twins and having ...
On June 6, the Parliament of Guinea Bissau passed a bill that forbids female genital mutilation [pt], known as “fanado”. For journalist and blogger Helena Gouveia [pt] “although the law alone is ...
NEW BEDFORD — The name of Amilcar Cabral, one of Africa’s foremost anti-colonial leaders who was assassinated in 1973 in Conakry, Guinea, is forever synonymous with the liberation movement of Cabo ...
Eight women accused of witchcraft in the West African state of Guinea-Bissau have died of poisoning in the remote north, a senior official told AFP on Thursday.