Ng’ang’a wa Muchiri

It’s a bit of a cliché to decry the demeaning depiction of women in music videos, but Loverance’s “Up!” featuring 50 Cent deserves a re-hashing of that old argument.

Seven years after the World Health Organisation’s study on “Violence against Women”, how much has changed? Has society succeeded in providing safety for women? War zones across the globe—Iraq, Afghanistan, Congo-DRC—indicate failure. More needs to be done.