Stronger Together: Sex workers build solidarity and common ground in Malawi
When Penelope and 34 fellow sex workers came together in a process facilitated by JASS as part of the Count Me In! Consortium, something powerful happened: a shared realisation that the power to change their shared problems lies in actively solving them together. As Penelope shared in her words, “We decided to find solutions to […]
DRUMBEATS OF RESISTANCE: Students and human rights defenders aid democracy in Zimbabwe
Starting early 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic let out its full fury, Zimbabwe was reeling under poverty, unemployment, discrimination and violence against structurally excluded women, a weak healthcare system, and so on. When students and women human rights defenders demanded that the state took its responsibilities toward its citizens seriously, the state responded with violence. That […]
