Gender-based violence – PARENTING, ADVOCACY AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN

REJECTION IS AS NECESSARY AS IT IS INEVITABLE!

I am STILL trying to figure out why the world is so cruel to women. The data presented on the World Health Organization website[1] is frightening and puts into perspective that violence against women is a global crisis, so much so that it is being referred to as “devastatingly pervasive”. The question that begs toContinue reading “REJECTION IS AS NECESSARY AS IT IS INEVITABLE!”

THE AUDACITY….Boys to men!

I am literally experiencing a kaleidoscope of emotions right now. I am tired, drained, angry and confused from all the news about women being beaten, raped, abused in one way or the other and killed. I just don’t get what is happening. I know that this is nothing new and that women have been sufferingContinue reading “THE AUDACITY….Boys to men!”

Low blows: the mask of GBV/IPV[1]

He is relentless in his attacks. Day after day, month after month, year after year – his “blows” keep coming. He just does not stop. But where does she turn? To whom does she report this? Down-trodden, brow-beaten, belittled and disparaged all describe her wounds, so no one takes them seriously. They can’t see them,Continue reading “Low blows: the mask of GBV/IPV[1]”